Murrumbidgee School of Creative Arts

Advertisement October 2006

The following details apply to all the workshops listed below.
Date of workshops:
14th - 19th January 2007
Cost of Workshops:
Non residential $556.00
Includes week of tuition, lunch, morning and afternoon tea daily, exhibition
Residential $978.00
Includes 6 nights accommodation, week of tuition, all meals, and exhibition

For bookings contact:
Program Coordinator
Phone: 02 6933 2064
commed@csu.edu.au
http://www.csu.edu.au/student/community-ed/arts/msca/

Beading stitches and free form work

Medium: Beading
With Mary Farrugia
Beginner to Intermediate

Learn various off loom stitches like peyote (flat, tubular round), brick stitch (flat, tubular, round), Ndebele (flat, tubular, round) and Square stitch, and incorporate the swatches made into a free form necklace or bracelet.

Lampwork - Colour glass bead making

Medium: Glass
With Pauline Delaney
Beginner to Intermediate

This workshop will be a journey in flame worked beads; melting coloured glass rods to make beads to surface decoration, stringers, twisty decoration, floral techniques, triangle beads, shaping and sculpting glass to make a goddess bead.

A Portrait Bust in clay

Medium: Clay
With Kate French
Beginner to Advanced

Learn to build a Portrait Bust in clay using a very versatile, easily mastered method. Each step is thoroughly demonstrated, from the initial construction to modelling facial features, then, animating those features with expression.

Text as Texture - calligraphy with a twist

Medium: Calligraphy
With Gemma Black
Beginner to Advanced

After studying the Celtic Uncial and the 20th century Neuland scripts, separated by time and geography, participants will interpret the design aspect of these hands into textured panels, resulting in variations from the legible to the illegible.

From a Working Sketchbook to a Work of Art

Medium: Drawing
With Linda Champion
Beginner to Intermediate

This workshop will involve the evolution of working drawings from nature and the environment we find ourselves in, to a finished contemporary drawing/work on paper using ideas and composites from our sketchbook.

Vibrant Watercolours

Medium: Watercolour
With Murray Stuart
Beginner to Advanced

Learn the secrets of producing clean, vibrant and colourful watercolours. Your watercolours will glow and so will you, as you learn the difference between producing an ordinary painting and one with that special "extra".

Contemporary Mixed Media

Medium: Mixed Media
With Hilary Peterson
Beginner to Advanced

This exciting workshop will introduce, or re-introduce participants, to many traditional and contemporary mixed media techniques to create interesting and stimulating artworks. Using your own references or those suggested by Hilary, you can develop your own unique visual language, whether figurative or abstract.

Mixed Media Magic 2

Medium: Mixed Media
With Sarah Larsen
Intermediate to Advanced

This workshop provides a smorgasbord of techniques and skills in the successful use of mixed media, catering for the intermediate as well as the more experienced artist. Working from the landscape and the figure, participants will learn how and when to combine the different types of media.

Exploring Pastels

Medium: Pastels
With Regina Hona
Intermediate to Advanced

This workshop explores the creative process of pastels and covers a wide range of subject matter. Participants work at their own level and pace to build on their knowledge of composition, colour, tone, application of pastels.

Making your landscapes, dynamic

Medium: Acrylic
With Heather A. Bell
Intermediate to Advanced

During this workshop participants will learn to work from their chosen subject within landscapes and make them more interesting by taking time to study the possibilities of 'composition' and adding 'atmosphere'.

Jewellery Fundamentals

Medium: Jewellery
With Evan Marceau
Beginner to Intermediate

Combining a range of basic techniques participants will be assisted through the process of making several wearable pieces of jewellery, from preliminary design to finished product.

Etching Metals- two methods of creating decorative surfaces

Medium: Jewellery and metalwork
With Barbara Ryman
Beginner to Intermediate

Wonderful textures, designs and patterns can be created using etching techniques. We will try out etching with PnP, a paper onto which we photocopy black and white images, and etching using sterling silver.

Writing for publication: the secret handshake

Medium: Creative Writing
With Kerri Lane
Beginner to Intermediate

This workshop is a writer's road map to success. It is designed to cover every aspect of the writing process from polishing your writing skills to being guided through the intricacies of the top selling genres to see where you fit.

Contemporary Mosaic Design

Medium: Mosaics
With Acott Harrower
Beginners to Advanced

Combining traditional techniques with step by step instruction, Scott Harrower introduces students to various methods, including the Direct, Indirect and Ravenna. Students learn to adapt tradition with contemporary principles of mosaic.

Digital Photography & Digital Darkroom

Medium: Digital Photography
With Grenville Turner
Intermediate to Advanced

Participants will be introduced to the most up-to-date and advanced digital darkroom techniques with the result of producing high-end exhibition quality prints from images produced during the workshop.

Fine Art Photography

Medium: Photography
With Mike Coombe
Beginner to Advanced

Mike will guide participants through the whole creative process. Starting with the pre-visualization of the desired end result, setting up images, processing film, making contact sheets, printing the image, refining the image, toning the image, matting the image.

Depth of Field vs Depth of Feeling

Medium: Photography
With Peter Adams
Intermediate to Advanced

This 'hands-on' workshop is all about teaching the participants how to see, and then how to be able to photograph what they see. By the end of the workshop, participants will understand how to regard landscapes as 'personalities' - not just views - and how to make the best of them.

Digital Photography

Medium: Digital Photography
With Tim Wheeler
Beginner to Intermediate

This workshop explores the endless possibilities of digital photography while reinforcing basic photographic skills. Participants will be introduced to digital imaging with Adobe Photoshop, using it as an introduction to the "digital darkroom".

Mixed Media Mural

Medium: Collection of Objects
With Dina Goebel
Beginner to Intermediate

You will learn basic construction techniques of armature and adhesion, texture creation and explore artistic brainstorming methods while you create a series of three small low relief 3D sculptures.

Sculptures in Stone

Medium: Stone
With Faustas Sadauskas
Beginner to Intermediate

Designing a sculptural form by applying drawings to initially produce a clay marquette, the participant may either opt for a traditional or contemporary scaled model which will be the basis of their stone sculpture.

Felt Inspirations

Medium: Felt /textile
With Fiona Wright
Beginner to Advanced

In this workshop participants will explore an expressive approach to creative wool/silk felted works. Drawing inspirations from images of favourite places participants will create a number of expressive, semi-abstract 'landscapes'.

Diamond Bright- silk painting using resists

Medium: Textiles: Fabric Decoration
With Gill Burke
Beginner to Intermediate

Painting with dye on silk gives scintillating, bright colours. The use of a resist to separate colour can augment the design and produce an effect not unlike leading in stained glass windows.

Fun with fabric dyes and paints

Medium: Textiles
With Linda Tucker
Beginner to Advanced

Dye and paint 25 metres of cotton fabric in a fun workshop of colour exploration. The best fun to be had with rubber gloves on!