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- Drawing 2
Course start date: Thu 24 Oct 2024 (and 8 other dates)Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Andrea VoiseyBuild your confidence in tackling more personal, complex drawings. Further explore observational drawing and visual language. Develop your drawing skills by working with different approaches and exploring a range of artists' drawing process.Full fee £369.00 Senior fee £295.00 Concession £240.00 - Beginners' jewellery I Course start date: Sun 3 Nov 2024
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rebecca IlettLearn all the basics of metal jewellery work by making a range of sample pieces in copper and a finished jewellery piece of your own design. You will be shown how to buy silver so you can take home at least one wearable piece. - Introduction to sculpture Course start date: Sat 11 Jan 2025 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Belinda Edwards, Andrew Revell, Ro Sylvester, Shelley WilsonThe ultimate introduction to sculpture at City Lit. In each class of this five-day hands-on course you will be introduced to a different sculptural technique and material, by a tutor who is a specialist in that area. This will provide you with a showcase of our sculpture facilities and teaching talent at City Lit. This course is perfect for beginners who want to try out a range of sculptural processes, perhaps to find your area of interest for further study.Full fee £399.00 Senior fee £319.00 Concession £259.00 - Introduction to carving Course start date: Sun 26 Jan 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Belinda EdwardsHave you ever tried carving in wood? Be guided by an expert tutor to learn the basic techniques, materials and processes of carving, and carve a small piece of sculpture using hand carving tools. For complete beginners.Full fee £399.00 Senior fee £319.00 Concession £259.00 - Beginners' jewellery II Course start date: Sun 2 Feb 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Aurelie DellasantaMake a bezel setting for a cabochon stone and a tube setting for a round faceted stone. This course is suitable for those who have done an introductory course as well as for complete beginners or those who would like to have a refresher of all the basic metal jewellery working skills.Full fee £399.00 Senior fee £319.00 Concession £259.00 - Beginners' jewellery III Course start date: Sun 27 Apr 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Rebecca IlettBeginners 3 is the perfect continuation for those who have some metal jewellery making experience and would like to expand on their basic metal working skills by learning wax carving and casting. Wax carving lends itself very well to creating organic and fluid forms that can’t be made with sheet and wire. There will be set projects as well as the opportunity to experiment and develop your own designs.Full fee £399.00 Senior fee £319.00 Concession £259.00 - Jewellery making: carving, casting and finishing Course start date: Sun 8 Jun 2025
Location on this date: Keeley Street
Tutors: Louise Seijen Ten HoornCarve, model and experiment with jewellers wax; learn about the lost wax casting process, outsourcing, and how components and multiples are made, relevant to jewellery making and production. There will also be an introduction to low-fi casting methods: Delft-Clay (sand casting) and cuttlefish bone.
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