Floral Painting For Design : A Short Course At Central Saint Martins
19th Century French Textile
Description
Florals adorn all forms of surface from fashion textiles to interiors to packaging, ceramics and beyond.
With so many ways they can be painted, this course aims to ground you in five key approaches that have been loved and innovated upon for centuries. This hands on course will teach you the styles and techniques needed to grasp these approaches.
These approaches are:
Botanical Floral Painting
Chinoiserie painting with emphasis on Florals
Floral painting for Screen Printing
Line Drawn and Toile Floral Painting
Dutch Still Life Floral Painting
As well as learning techniques and painting artworks, each module is peppered with the historic context of each approach.
Students will come away from the course confident handling a number of media and popular floral painting styles and with a portfolio of samples that can be built upon for their career in surface design be it in fashion textiles, home textiles, wallpaper painting, fine art, illustration, graphic design, ceramics/porcelain, stationary design or the luxury industry.
Who should take this course?
Those interested in enhancing their hand painted florals for surface design.
This includes students or professionals in fashion textiles, interiors, illustration, fine art, decorative art, graphic design and contemporary craft.
Course Outcomes
A comprehensive foundation in traditional hand painting and a sample portfolio from the course that can be built upon and used commercially to gain work or apply for further education.
Entry requirements: Some painting/drawing experience is ideal but mainly enthusiasm and focus is all that's needed.
Level: All Levels
Please note: This course is for students aged 18 and older
Materials
Please bring to the first class:
Recommended retailer Great Art, Jackson's. If ordering online, double check delivery times as they can take much longer than other retailers.
Paper: Weight 250 or 300 gsm A3 Hot Pressed Watercolour Paper block with minimum 15 sheets.
Budget permitting the best one is the block of Hot Pressed Watercolour Paper A3 by brand Arches ~£65 but more economic brands will also be fine.
Pad of white tear-off Palette Paper, A4 ~£9.
Brushes: 1 round brush size 2, 4 and 10; 2 x round brush size 6, (ok-good quality synthetic is fine and made by brands Escoda/da vinci/W&N/Cass Art) ~£7 each.
Léonard Synthetic Expression Brush Series 50FP size 2 (available at Jackson's Art Supplies) £3.20;
Pro Arte Prolene Synthetic Brush series 103 rigger size 1 (BP1031) (available at Jackson's Art Supplies) £3.20.
Medium Water Jar/ white plastic food container
