Laura Beth Sharp Designs: Halewood College Art Workshops

Welcome to Laura Beth Designs

"The ideas for my current work began through drawing collections of children’s toys and decorative objects from different countries around the world. I was inspired by their vibrant colours, mixture of decorative patterns and playful nature of the objects. I have enjoyed processing and developing these drawings through using Photoshop. This has enabled me to establish and narrative and fuse toys and patterns from different cultures together. My textile pieces and wrapping papers were directly inspired by this work. They are created using a combination of screen and digital print and machine embroidery utilising specialist Cornely machines. My design work could be applied to an interior or fashion context for children, stationary such as gift wrap and cards or children’s book illustration."

Sunday 13 January 2008

Halewood College Art Workshops

Over the past couple of months, I have been doing art workshops with the 6th form textile students at Halewood College in Liverpool. I have really enjoyed working with the students. Some of my workshops include screen printing, working on Photoshop and hand/machine embroidery. The students have been looking at the theme of collections. They began the project by drawing their own personal collections and then scanned them into the computer and experimented with them on Photoshop. We then thought about how their computer work could be converted into textiles using print and embroidery. At the end of the project the students should have completed a wall hanging using all the techniques I showed them! Pictures of the workshops will be on their way soon!

I appeared in the Halewood College newsletter in December. Mrs Lloyd who is an art teacher at the school wrote a lovely article about me. Have a look by clicking on the picture.