Short Courses
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A Weekend on the Wheel
$400.00ON-CAMPUS: 13-14 May 2023, Saturday and Sunday 9.30am-4.30pm each day. Early Fee ends 3 April 2023
Tania RollondBe introduced to the basic skills of wheel-throwing clay, including how to centre the clay, lift, shape and trim the form. Tania demonstrates, encourages and guides you to develop techniques and confidence to make cups, bowls and sculptural forms.
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Abstraction and Landscape Painting
$440.00ONLINE: 8 February – 29 March 2023, Wednesday 2-5pm AEST. Early fee ends 2 January 2023
Fran O’NeillInvigorate your painting practice and expand your visual vocabulary of abstraction and landscape painting. Learn how to draw out the abstract from within the conventions of landscape, looking backwards and forwards, and constantly exploring the rich potential of the painted image.
* please note there is a one week break on 22 February
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Abstraction and Landscape Painting
$440.00ONLINE: 8 February – 29 March 2023, Wednesday 10am-1pm AEST. Early fee ends 2 January 2023
Fran O’NeillInvigorate your painting practice and expand your visual vocabulary of abstraction and landscape painting. Learn how to draw out the abstract from within the conventions of landscape, looking backwards and forwards, and constantly exploring the rich potential of the painted image.
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Abstraction and Landscape Painting
$440.00ONLINE: 27 April – 15 June 2023, Wednesday 10am-1pm AEST. Early fee ends 20 March 2023
Fran O’NeillInvigorate your painting practice and expand your visual vocabulary of abstraction and landscape painting. Learn how to draw out the abstract from within the conventions of landscape, looking backwards and forwards, and constantly exploring the rich potential of the painted image.
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Anatomy for Life Drawing
$835.00ON CAMPUS: 9-13 January 2023, Monday to Friday 9.30am-4.30pm. Early Fee Ends 5 December 2022
Dr David BriggsLearn simple anatomical concepts that will enable you to visualise any part of the body, in any action, from any direction, and grasp the essential action of drawing in a few lines instead of fifty. Beginners will focus initially on drawing the skeleton, but content is flexible for those with prior knowledge.
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Image Credit: Dr David Briggs
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Big Picture Thinking for Artists
$440.00ONLINE: 11 February – 18 March 2023, Saturdays 10am-2.30pm AEST. Early fee ends 2 January 2023
Kelly-Ann DentonFiguring out what to create is fundamental to creative success in the arts and creative industries. In this short course we learn key principles in developing and building concepts. Methods include visual thinking, drawing out ideas, visual learning maps and more.
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Big Picture Thinking for Artists
$440.00ONLINE: 29 April – 17 June 2023, Saturdays 10am-2.30pm AEST. Early fee ends 20 March 2023
Kelly-Ann DentonFiguring out what to create is fundamental to creative success in the arts and creative industries. In this short course we learn key principles in developing and building concepts. Methods include visual thinking, drawing out ideas, visual learning maps and more.
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Coils, Coils, Coils: Introduction to Handbuilding Techniques
$880.00ON-CAMPUS: 29 April – 24 June 2023, Saturdays 10am-2pm . Early Fee ends 20 March 2023
Alexandra StandenTransform lumps of clay into unique, hand-built vessels and sculptural forms with faster and more forgiving coiling and pinch techniques. Learn how to hand-build efficiently and develop the confidence to push the ceramics form to the create beautiful clay objects.
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Colour, Abstraction and Expressive Painting
$660.00ON CAMPUS: 9 February – 30 March 2023, Thursdays 6pm-9pm. Early fee ends 2 January 2023
Tonee MessiahLearn about the fundamental principles of colour-mixing and discover how colours change and move in a picture plane. Be introduced to painting approaches from modernist abstraction to the present day and discover how to translate subject matter using colour as a powerful expressive tool.
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Colour, Abstraction and Expressive Painting
$660.00ON CAMPUS: 27 April – 15 June, Thursdays 6pm-9pm. Early fee ends 20 March 2023
Tonee MessiahLearn about the fundamental principles of colour-mixing and discover how colours change and move in a picture plane. Be introduced to painting approaches from modernist abstraction to the present day and discover how to translate subject matter using colour as a powerful expressive tool.
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Colour, Composition and Collage with Acrylic Paints
$925.00ON-CAMPUS: 9-13 January 2023, Monday – Friday 9.30am-4.30pm each day. Early Fee Ends 5 December 2022
Dr Christine DeanThis course explores techniques and mediums of acrylic painting, composition, colour, abstraction, representation, collage and the use of text in art. Christine introduces you to the relationships between primary, secondary and tertiary colours, and experimenting with elements of abstraction.
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Contemporary Fresco Painting
$1,100.00On Campus – 11 Feb – 1 April 2023 , Saturdays 10am-3pm. Early Fee ends 2 January 2023
Mason KimberLearn the traditional techniques of ancient fresco painting and discover how the creation of a material surface can offer new possibilities for contemporary painting. Mason Kimber will guide you in preparing surfaces, mixing plaster renders, sketching with paint and working within the time limitations of various materials as they dry.
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