Summer & Winter School
Summer & Winter Schools
Life DrawingDrawing Workshop Sculpture WorkshopContemporary Painting Techniques Bronze Casting
How to Apply
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Summer and Winter Schools
Please note enrolments for Winter School 2013 are now open
To enrol through our on-line store please click hereLife Drawing
This class will cover all aspects of life drawing. You will be involved in a thorough exploration of the human form and learn in a practical way about methods of measurement, scale and space; about form, line and tone. The class is designed for a wide range of students and will allow ample opportunity for individual discussion with your lecturer.
Dates: 6.7,13,and 14th July (4 days - 2 weekends)
Sat 9.30am - 4.30pm
Sun 11am - 4pm
Download the outline for Winter_Life_Drawing_2013.pdf (pdf file, 28kb)
Cost
$495
Sculpture Workshop
Beth Arnold
Material translations is concerned with sculptural processes of modelling, mould making and casting. Concepts of the original and the copy will be explored through the course, as will processes of recording surface and form.
The context for the courses activities will be structured around current art practice and how moulding and casting are used to generate meaning, association or form.
Participants will have the opportunity to create a mould of both a found object and also a sculpted clay form. The course will introduce students to different materials and processes through a range of mould making and casting techniques, for example creating a two-piece plaster mould. Participants will experience what happens in the translation of objects from one material to another and the effect the process has in the finished piece.
Dates: 6.7,13,and 14th July (4 days - 2 weekends)
Sat 9.30am - 4.30pm
Sun 11am - 4pm
Download the outline for Winter_Sculpt_Workshop_2013.pdf (pdf file, 39kb)
Cost
$495
Drawing Workshop
To aid the student with the key artistic practice of drawing and to help locate and express their personal ideas and contexts through the act of multi-faceted mark making. Participants will gain a greater insight into the variants of specific materials with the aim of discovery what materials are best suited to what ideas. The key aim is to assist the participants to discover the role drawing can have in their own practice and to see how it as an action of thought.
Dates:
6.7,13,and 14th July (4 days - 2 weekends)
Sat 9.30am - 4.30pm
Sun 11am - 4pm
Download the outline for Winter_VCA_Drawing_Workshop_13.pdf (pdf file, 61kb)
Cost
$495
Bronze Casting
Bronze Casting
Dr Tim Edwards
Trans:form is an intensive introduction to the lost-wax process of bronze casting.
Students will be guided through the technical processes of creating a sculpture made from wax before transforming this object into bronze.
Dates
TBA ( 6 days)
Please contact course co-ordinator of current status of course
Cost
$ 700
Contemporary Painting Techniques
Colleen Ahern
The course includes instruction in surface preparation, palette preparation and maintenance, paint application methods, colour theory and colour mixing, tonal value analysis as an under-painting, colour relationships that establish form and space, painting from life and personal interpretation.
Dates: 6.7,13,and 14th July (4 days - 2 weekends)
Sat 9.30am - 4.30pm
Sun 11am - 4pm
Download WINTER_Cont_Painting_2013.pdf (pdf file, 31kb)
Cost
$495
How to Apply
To enrol through our on-line store please click here
Download the Art_Enrolment_Form_2013_writeabl.pdf (pdf file, 147kb)
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In person Cash or Eftpos |
Take the form and payment to: The Faculty of VCA and MCM, Finance Department, Elizabeth Murdoch Building, Level 2, 234 St Kilda Road, Southbank. (EFTPOS available.) |
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On-line store Credit Card |
To enrol through our on-line store please click here |
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Phone Credit Card |
Call the VCA Finance Department on: 90359 355 90359 097 |
FAQs
Download the Art Short Course FAQs ( pdf file, 1MB)
Contact Course Coordinator
Ieuan Weinman
Short Course Coordinator
School of Art
Email vca-artshortcourses@unimelb.edu.au
Phone +61 3 9035 9462 (Tuesday - Thursday)
