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Dorothea Richardson, cultural arts specialist for the city of Chattanooga, is offering fashion illustration classes to seniors and students together at the Eastgate Senior Activity Center.
Richardson, who has a bachelor’s in graphic design and oil painting, has taught the classes to students after school for six years.
Dorothea Richardson, cultural arts specialist for the city of Chattanooga, is offering fashion illustration classes to seniors and students together at the Eastgate Senior Activity Center.
“I was trying to find an interesting way to get little girls interested in art,” the Brainerd resident explained.
Now she wants to combine the interests of the students with the talents of the seniors. According to Richardson, seniors usually love to sew and can use the class to put their ideas into art form.
“I thought it’d be a good mesh,” she said.
Richardson begins the multi-week class drawing shapes — rectangles, circles, triangles — with her pupils.
“When they get done with that I tell them, ‘You’ve just drawn a human body,’” she said.
She shows the class how to put the shapes together to make a body and then builds to add clothing shapes and shades of colors.
“A triangle is a dress,” said Richardson. “If you’re going to do a skirt, put a little wave at the bottom. So now it looks like it moves.”
Richardson’s pupils each design a day wear outfit and a formal wear outfit. In a second set of intermediate classes, students learn to draw designs on their fabric and add detail, like buttons and textures.
Pupils may decide to pursue this art in its textile form.
Richardson sews her own designs into reality and wears them, sometimes attracting the flattering question, “Where did you get that?”
“The first time I was in Texas,” Richardson said. “I had worn something I had made and I was so surprised.”
For more information about the fashion illustration class, contact Eastgate Senior Activity Center at 855-9444.
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