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Cinnamon Cocka-doodle-loopy

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Cleo is the only one in our family with an artistic bent & she wants to do art as one of her GCSE options.

 

She needs various supplies,including an A1 portfolio, but I can only find these in boring black - does anyone know where I can get something a bit more bright & jazzy for her birthday?

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laurmurf Chatty Chicken

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Ellie is in her first year doing art for GCSE, the school sold them all their supplies including a clear A1 portfolio. All the kids decorated the hard card to individualize their portfolios. Maybe she'd like a nice quality clear one with the option of doing the same?

 

Alternatively we've got a big outlet store called 'The Range' that sells a huge variety of art supplies including portfolios - any near you?

 

Warn Cleo that the workload is very heavy - every weekend and many many lunch hours but Ellie still loves it, she finds it very relaxing compared to the hard grind of academic subjects.

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Ana's flock Frequent Layer

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I've also only found them in boring black... if anyone has any funky ones it'll be Paperchase... I found this for you:

 

http://www.paperchase.co.uk/p/0361298/camden_portfolio_cases.html

 

It's a bit pricey and I don't know if it'll be A1, but it's worth a call to ask. Also it looks sturdy and it's worth buying good quality as they do get a bit of a 'hard life' being dragged around too...

 

When I went to St Martin's for a short fashion design course, one of the other students had customised his portfolio with some sort of patchwork and interesting textiles. My (little A3) knitting portfolio is covered in an appropriate hand-knitted crazy stripes pattern of bright colours... so you can always get a boring black one and then stick things/embroidery in or even paint it to jazz it up a little...

 

Best of luck with the Art GCSE!

 

Ana

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craftyhunnypie Chuckling Chook

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You could do some serious altered art on that, but from what I've seen most people do have the clear ones & 'vamp' them up. You'd be best buying her an art box (tool box sort of thing. I wanted one when I did art, but they were dead expensive in those days - my parents put all their money into my paints & brushes.

 

Emma.x

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ubereglu Golden Egg

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I'm intrigued that you actually need one. I'm currently in Year 11 and doing Art for GCSE...now working towards my exam piece though and I have to say we never needed one, most of the work that size was just stored at school on a few shelves. I suppose different schools take different approaches though. It's not too much extra work compared to other subjects, in fact it's one of those subjects you can fit around spare time, I'm often found watching TV and doing any art coursework/homework I need to.

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