Introduction to Printmaking short course with Elizabeth Hunter starts this Saturday July 27

Introduction to Printmaking: 6 week course

This course is designed to familiarize artists with a variety of printmaking techniques, in order to create visual diversity, through colour and texture, extending their artwork through the exploration and experimentation of the print medium.

The course will cover three main print techniques over a period of 6 week’s.

Week 1-2: Monoprint; monoprint’s can be classed between painting and printing, many artist’s have used the monoprint as the foundation of other types of work. For example, Degas used monoprints to work out composition and the play of shadow and light, sometimes using them as the base for his pastel drawings and paintings.
The monoprint in itself, is a beautiful and free way of expressing ideas and capturing the essence of a moment in time.
Week 3-4: Collagraph; collagraph’s can be very diverse in the way in which they are created and printed. The matrix can be made from metal, wood, plastic, cardboard, etc, thus making it one of the most economical and experimental process’s as far as materials go. The prints exhibit various depths of inked area and embossing, which gives the work a rich and very textural finish.
Week 5-6: Intaglio/Etching; etching has been in existence since the 1400’s, developed by the need to document and recreate engravings used on steel armour. The process involves the use of a wax/bitumen ground applied to a metal plate, which is inscribed with an etching needle, or other tool, and submerged in bath of acid that etches the image into the plate.

There are as many processes and possibilities in intaglio as there are ideas in the artists imagination. This workshop is devised to give the student a ‘taste’, of the medium, which they can continue to develop.

Evening and Saturday Short courses in Visual Arts starting soon

Diploma timetable updated today

The Diploma timetable has been updated on the 20th of June
Changes include the subject CUVACD513A Make Mixed Media Artworks with Julie Poulsen which has been moved from a Monday. It will now be offered on a Wednesday starting on the 10th of July.

Expressions of interest for Printmaking, Oil painting and Figurative sculpture and life drawing short courses being sought for semester 2 - starting in late July

The TNQTAFE Visual Arts team are seeking expressions of interest from students interested in enrolling in our short courses in Semester 2  - 2013. Further details regarding prices etc. will be posted as soon as they become available (you can look in the blog spot archive to see semester 1 course info and enrolment fees)
Introduction to Printmaking

Saturday mornings 10am – 1pm
27 July – 31 August (6 classes)
with Elizabeth Hunter

Oil Painting Level 1 & 2
Wednesday evenings 5.30 – 9.30pm

7 Aug – 11 Sept  (6 classes)
with Kristin Tennyson

Art of the figure: Figurative Sculpture and Life Drawing
Monday evenings 5.30 – 9.30pm

5 Aug – 9 Sept  (6 classes)
with Kristin Tennyson

Please call Kerry Grierson on 40422505 or via email to kerry.grierson@tafe.qld.edu.au to register your interest.

Oil Painting level 1 & 2 short course with Kristin Tennyson starts tonight at 6pm

Thank you  to everyone who assisted in sending out messages to make this class happen.
Oil Painting level 1 & 2 will start tonight Wednesday 22 of May at 6pm.
The best entry to the college is via Gatton Street - use the S block car park next to the Hospitality building. The class is held in Y Block - room 108.


Oil paints are supplied but please bring any brushes you may have, 4 jars, rags and something to use as a palette (plastic palette, ice cream container lid etc.)

Please bring in any supports you may have to paint on - wood, canvas, canvas boards, canvas paper (any of these) Your teacher will have some oil painting paper available if you are not sure what to bring or cannot organise by this evening.

Enjoy your class.

Expressions of interest will be taken for further classes in Semester 2  - starting in July.

Introduction to Pottery Classes at TNQ TAFE Cairns Campus starting next Tuesday - learn Pottery in Cairns

Details are below