Techniques

Ideas using the skills above

• Make a costume for your favourite toy, stick and pin it together
• Collect old clothes, give them a make-over, add lace, velvet, fake, fur, jewels
• Decorate a piece of fabric, with beads, buttons and bows to wear as a bracelet
• Invent a crazy head piece, a wizard’s hat, a pirate’s hat, a hat for a ‘Day at the Races’, model it and photograph it with digital camera
• Wrap yourself up as a tree using a large piece of any coloured fabric: all the class can make a ‘magical wood’ these trees can walk!
• Invent an imaginary costume for your pet cat, dog, donkey, fish … what does an animal wear on a night out? You decide, draw it after you create it.
• Draw a character from a story, dress up the drawing any way you like using fabrics and fibres
• Using leopard skin fake fur or other, make a leopard costume for a fancy dress party
• Collect five examples of fake animal patterned fur fabric. Isolate a section with your viewfinder. Enlarge this section up to A3 size on paper. Now transfer your enlarged design from paper onto the A3 fabric using fabric paints. Sew or assemble the painted fabric into a functional object … a bag, a holder for bits and bobs, or book cover
• Take your current favourite computer game. Look at the background in one scene. Use this as a starting point for an alternative costume for the character in that scene.
• Invent a school uniform for the teachers in your school, remember it has to be ‘an exotic costume’ for fun teachers
• You and your friends are selected for the final of a ‘Band of the Future’ competition; you cannot afford an image consultant, design and make a distinctive look for your band, using hessian and available materials
  • Modify your design using a computer art program
  • Design the outfit for your favourite ‘Band’s upcoming awards ceremony, sketch it out and stick down samples of the fabric to be used
• Design and make up a bag for a celebrity night out … make it small, glitzy and chic Photograph the finished bag: scan the image into your computer. Modify the colours and textures to create three possible alternate bag designs. Print these out and store in your individual art portfolio