Course Dates:
14 -16 January 2005

This course offers the opportunity for the beginner or more experienced student to try out a variety of art media on paper using a source from the garden as an inspirational design theme. The basics of design are approached in an exciting and contemporary manner with the use of printmaking, collage, stencils and foil. Try this course as a taster for 7922-01 City & Guilds Level 3 Unit Credit Certificate in Design. Anybody can learn how to design.

Please note, this is not a drawing class, nor do you need to know how to draw. You will create original designs.

You will leave this class having acquired new methods of observation, color studies, a collection of printed and painted papers, using a variety of media, and lots of ideas and notes.

Activities at this session

Color from Garden Inspiration:

• How to look, isolate areas
• Using Key color, tonal values, and proportion of colors
• Using other basic Color Theory
• Create Color Studies
• Explore methods of painting papers to create color using brushes and sponges for layered and textural effects

Pattern from Garden Inspiration

• Looking anew – Isolating, extracting, and simplifying areas of interest
• Learning basic Design Theory and putting it into action
• Printmaking using acrylics, foils, waxy shiny finishes or texture to explore options of pattern making

Student Needs for the Class:

• There is a $20 Supply Fee for this class, to include use of watercolors, acrylics, printing and stencil materials, foiling, and other materials, payable at the class.
• An additional supply list will be sent to the student upon registration

A $100 US deposit will hold your place in this course until 15 November 2004, at which time the full tuition/balance is due.

COURSE SCHEDULE

Approximate lunch hour will be 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Dinner on Friday will be from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.