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Miss Mellor

Miss Mellor's Top Tip...Reverse Applique.

Here i have created a detailed guide on how to create a reverse applique sample.

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Miss Mellor

Miss Mellor's Top Tip...Applique.

Here i have created a detailed guide on how to create an applique sample.

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Miss Mellor

Top 5 Inspiring artists-NEW

With the new Textiles Art G.C.S.E looming I have been doing a little artist research as it is always fun to search out new and inspiring artists to enhance the work we produce in class. Here are my top 5 at the moment. 

The first is 1. Alisa Burke...Alisa uses vibrant surface colour in blocks as a base to apply interesting floral pattern. Her blog is well worth taking a look at as she has free downlodes, creative ideas to make at home and a lot of visually inspiring work. 

Pen and Paint flowers. 

Alisa's detailed flowers. 

Also if you have an Instagram follow Alisa as she had small videos of how she creates her artwork which are absolutely brilliant.

http://alisaburke.blogspot.co.uk/

2. Lucy Sparrow is a felt artists who has created an entire 'cornershop' filled with edible looking goodies entirely out of felt and similarly 3. Holly Levell who creates confectionery form felt.

Lucy's Chocolate in her corner shop. 

Holly's Felted Confectionery

Food is always a favorite with my girls and i have found two incredible food textiles artists.

http://www.hollylevell.com/

The next artist i adore is 4.Katie Daisy. Katie is an inspirational painter who uses nature and the land around her to inspire her stunning artwork. One of the things i love about textiles is how easily stunning artwork can be converted into fabric and stitch. Her detailed paintings include lettering and saying which i feel enhance her pieces. 

Lettering and Flowers. 

Katie's detailed flower artwork. 

http://www.katiedaisy.com/

Artist 5. Elizabeth Pawle. Elizabeth creates colourful, textured, textile pieces using a variety of fibers and stitching technique. Her geometrical approach would also make interesting art pieces.

Elizabeth's detailed textiles piece. 

Elizabeth's creative stitching.

http://design-milk.com/textile-art-by-elizabeth-pawle/

I hope you are as inspired as i am. Happy creating everyone. Miss Mellor. 

Year 9 Day of the Dead-Sugar Skull Project.

Over the summer i wrote an inclusive, exciting new project for year 9 students based on Day of the Dead. I am pleased to report that the students are enjoying the project and an array of detailed, excellent work is being produced.

Here are some examples of design ideas and final designs.

Well done done goes to Ellie Atkin, Kia, Keely Philp, Libby Barker and Sophie Ivill for their excellent work.

Ellie's demonstrates detail and annotation. 

Sophie demonstrates neat presentation. 

Keely demonstrates an innovative creative design. 

Libby Demonstrates excellent annotation. 

A huge well done girls. Keep up the good work.

Miss Mellor

Jess Hayes Year 8 pop art project

A huge well done to Jess Hayes in year 8 for outstanding work and effort each and every week. Well Done Jess! Here is an example of Jess' design ideas based on Minnie Mouse and Simba and her fantastic research homework. I am very much looking forwards to seeing your final piece Jess.

Annotated design ideas and research. 

Detailed design ideas.

Well done Jess.

Miss Mellor

Year 10 Hand Stitch Examples.

One of the best things about teaching, in my opinion is promoting and showcasing excellent work. A huge well done goes to Billie Turner and Emily Thorpe in year 10 for their 'hand stitching' pages. The girls learn a technique in lesson and then independently build on their skills by experimenting further in a quest to continually push themselves an and improve their work.

Here are examples of both Billie and Emily's pages. Well done girls. Excellent work.

A well composed, informative page based on shells and hand stitching.

Examples of lazy daisy, cross, star and chain stitch. 

Examples of running, ladder and twisted blanket stitch

A detailed page. 

Examples of french knots, couching and loop stitch . 

A huge well done to all of my year 10 Textiles girls for all of their effort and hard work.

Miss Mellor