A few weeks ago Yr 8 completed some beautiful observational drawings of botanical specimens found around the school. I'm now asking them to be designers and have shown them a simple way of generating repeat patterns using an abstracted part of their drawing as a template. The designs are fantastic and really show that in design as well as nature there are 'Endless Forms' as Darwin said.
We'll be working into these designs with collage and then developing them into our own hand printed fabrics which I'll put together into a large patchwork piece. I think it will look stunning when finished.
