I found an excellent article on the importance of experimenting as part of the creative process. As a group, let's review this article, taken from BBC educational page called, "Bitesize".
Experimenting with Materials, Techniques and Processes
Your ideas will be influenced by the characteristics of the materials which you use. You can explore the ideas and meanings created by different materials.
The media with which you work can determine the final form of your work. For example, if you work in clay your ideas will take form in real space. If you use photography your images will be a 2D recording of tones, shapes and colours.
Before making a final choice of process or media you should experiment to:
- discover what techniques different media lend themselves to
- explore what effects you can achieve
- explore the way in which an image, design motif or form can be changed or adapted
You can use a study in one medium to inspire work in another.
For example:
An illustration in pencil could be transformed by working in ink and wash on alarger or smaller scale. The linear qualities of the initial study would be added to by one in which tonal values or a sense of form and space are expressed.
Architectural or packaging details could be interpreted in different media and used as inspiration for designs for surface pattern, dress or other item of clothing.
When developing a graphic design you could work in a broad range of media, including watercolour and acrylics, to explore how texture, paint effects and colour may be manipulated, scanned and incorporated into a final illustration or poster design.
You could also experiment with oil-based and acrylic paints of different thicknesses and fluidity, characteristics which significantly affect the final appearance of your work.
An illustration in pencil could be transformed by working in ink and wash on alarger or smaller scale. The linear qualities of the initial study would be added to by one in which tonal values or a sense of form and space are expressed.
Architectural or packaging details could be interpreted in different media and used as inspiration for designs for surface pattern, dress or other item of clothing.
When developing a graphic design you could work in a broad range of media, including watercolour and acrylics, to explore how texture, paint effects and colour may be manipulated, scanned and incorporated into a final illustration or poster design.
You could also experiment with oil-based and acrylic paints of different thicknesses and fluidity, characteristics which significantly affect the final appearance of your work.
Checklist
When experimenting with materials, techniques and processes have you:- tried out a range of different media?
- tried out different combinations of media?
- experimented with different scales and forms - large/small or close-ups, 2D or 3D?
- tested different glaze combinations on samples of fired clay?
- experimented with combining different images, layers, filters and brush effects in image manipulation software?
- tried out different combinations of colours when surface printing?
- experimented combining different textiles techniques into samples?
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