LONG TERM COURSES
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EARLY BIRD SPECIAL OFFER:
Only $1,200 for Semester 1
To be eligible for this discounted rate, you must process full payment by December 16th 2013!
Mosaic Art Making & Design 1
Traditional Techniques
Semester 1 of Mosaic Art Making & Design will cover the foundations and traditional techniques of mosaics.
You will be given a course manual that that will be added to weekly. It will be pack-filled with learning resources, a library of mosaic artist inspirations, the history of mosaics, as well as instructional handouts!
Fabrication & Design techniques you will learn!
Left: reverse paper-faee fabrication method, Right: custom ceramic tiles
In the semester you will:
• Learn various fabrication techniques (indirect, reverse paper-face, semi-reverse on mesh) and about the different types of adhesives and when to use them
• Learn how to work with cement and make a paver which you mosaic
• Use different tools like the hammer and hardie, and work with marble
• Create several small mosaics works
and one large mosaic project
· • Lead a small community project
· • Have many sample works: E.g. grout sample boards, colour wheel boards, classical tile cutting boards & many more
· • Develop your technical knowledge and know how to mosaic for outdoors, wet areas and a variety of different substrates
· • Develop your skills of designing specifically for mosaics - that means more that just a drawing
· • Create mosaics that are flat: 2-D designs with materials including: glass, unglazed and glazed tiles, marble, smalti, mineral rocks… and more
· • Be given many resources about mosaic artists and their creative process through podcasts, interviews and DVD’s
· • Learn colour theory through a series of exercises to be better able to make colour choices. These exercises are designed specifically for mosaic art.
· • Develop your drawing & design skills
· • Be inspired by visiting guest teachers, local practicing artists and international visiting artists offering insights, new techniques and sharing their working practice.
· • And finally, your mosaic art
portfolio will be bursting with creativity, ideas, new knowledge, inspiration and stories from past and contemporary mosaic artists.
Tools you will learn to use!
Left: ceramic tile nippers, Right: hammer & hardie
