Parvin Peivandi

Description

Painting is a language without words. It's your unique way of expressing thoughts, feelings, and experiences. It's not just about colors on canvas; it's a practice that encourages self-expression, creativity, and exploration of possibilities. You'll learn various painting techniques, experiment with different materials, and create your own artwork from start to finish. This course is more than learning how to paint; it's about finding your unique voice as an artist. Through guided projects and inspiring prompts, you'll learn the power of colors, shapes, and forms to craft captivating paintings that reflect your personality. Whether representing the experience of nature, crafting abstract compositions, capturing personality in a portrait, or expressing the depths of your imagination, painting offers endless inspiration. With the expert guidance of our instructors, this course will help you discover your passion, explore your creativity, and create paintings that showcase your perspective, growth and distinctive style as an artist.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Description

Embark on a 36-hour intensive course spread over 12 weeks. This course is an enhanced program based on student feedback, adding an extra 12 hours of immersive learning compared to our previous offering. Explore the core principles of painting as an expressive medium in this introductory course. Working with acrylic paint and mediums, you will study and practice paint-handling techniques such as blocking in, building up texture and glazing along with colour mixing and compositional strategies. Through exercises, material and technical demonstrations, presentations and exploration, you will learn the fundamentals of painting. While the focus of this course is the technical foundations of painting, students are encouraged to go beyond the basics and explore their own conceptual interests within assignment frameworks. Designed for students with little to no experience with painting, instruction includes preparation and use of materials, sketching for painting, and painting from observation.

Material List: Be prepared for your course. Download the material list to purchase items before your first class.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Description

This studio course expands on the foundational vocabulary, materials, and techniques of contemporary visual art with a specific emphasis on drawing, painting, and sculpture. Through interactive presentations, group discussions, and constructive critiques, students will delve deeply into the essential concepts and materials that underpin artistic practices. Through critical analysis and reflection, students will explore the utilization of these artistic concepts and principles, contextualized within social, historical and contemporary frameworks.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Description

This course is an introduction to the fundamental concept of ceramics, achieved through hands-on exploration of diverse processes and various cultural perspectives within ceramics. Students will acquire proficiency in basic clay techniques and studio practices by engaging in a series of projects designed to foster an understanding of ceramics as a multi-disciplinary art form, cultivating a comprehension of ceramics as a discipline that blends surface and form, and integrating elements of painting, sculpture, and design.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.

Description

This course is an introduction to the fundamental concept of ceramics, achieved through hands-on exploration of diverse processes and various cultural perspectives within ceramics. Students will acquire proficiency in basic clay techniques and studio practices by engaging in a series of projects designed to foster an understanding of ceramics as a multi-disciplinary art form, cultivating a comprehension of ceramics as a discipline that blends surface and form, and integrating elements of painting, sculpture, and design.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.