This year’s Study Days will be led by Ann Hechle, in Bath. The dates are: Saturday 24th February and Saturday 2nd June 2018.
The topic is ‘Making your mark: two study days about Ideas and Design’ Places will be limited so apply early.
Making your mark:
Two Study Days about ideas & Design
With Ann Hechle
Many people have said to me “I have no ideas” – but of course everyone has ideas, thoughts and feelings.
Ideas are to be found everywhere, so what they really mean perhaps is that
at present, they lack ways to formally access ideas; and then how to convey them
with the appropriate design and technical skills.
This thought is significant, as often idea and the language used are intertwined.
So these Study Days will concentrate on these two aspects:
Ideas, and the Visual language and vocabulary:
e.g. form, scale, tone, colour, texture etc. {the elements of Basic Design really};
and we will see how they act upon and influence each other.
During the first morning,
we will explore various kinds of ideas,
examples will be shown, and suggestions made as to how they might be developed.
Participants will be invited to choose one
of a range of particular ideas to follow up in the coming weeks.
Parallel with this, a short course of Basic Design will be offered.
This will include a very brief overview of such fundamental devices as the division of a page, mark
and space, proportion, and ways to achieve harmony and contrast, balance and movement.
Examples will be shown, and further reading suggested.
This will be a long morning!
During the afternoon,
we will go to The Holburne Museum in Bath,
to see what ideas we can come away with, in the light of the morning’s input.
The Second Day
Both morning and afternoon will be practical sessions.
Discussion with each individual person of the work in progress:
and more input where needed.
Download an Application Form for the Study Days 2018
