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Join us for an exciting two hour workshop creating soap bars and mini sculptures. This workshop is fun as well as informative. Impress your family and friends with your personalized soap bars and sculptures, these make excellent gifts for any occasion

  • – Start Date: from 08/11/2011
  • – Session Day: Every Tuesday 6.30-8.30pm
  • – Course Length: Single session
  • – Session Length: 2 hours
  • – Location: Rosetta Art Centre
  • – Course Cost: £80
  • – Suitable for all

By the end of the course you will have:
– Created personalised soaps from organic oils or glycerin soap base using a simple heat and melt method.
– Made individualised soaps bars from moulds provided by us or carve the soap to create a mini sculpture.
– Learned about essential oils, herbs and their healing properties.

Course level and skills required:
None. This workshop is ideal for those who want an introduction to soap making techniques.  Or those who simply wish to explore the sculptural potential of soap.

Impress your family and friends with your personalised soap bars and sculptures, these make excellent gifts for any occasion.

For further information and advice on the courses at Rosetta Art Centre please contact us.

This introductory session gives you a great taster of working with traditional photographic methods in the darkroom. Working this way is an experience that is increasingly less available as there are fewer darkrooms available nowadays.

  • – Start Date: from 07/11/2011
  • – Session Day: Every Monday 6.30-9.30pm
  • – Course Length: Single session
  • – Session Length: 3 hours
  • – Location: Rosetta Art Centre
  • – Course Cost: £120
  • – Suitable for all

By the end of the course you will have:
- Learned darkroom practice, including care of equipment and safe handling procedures.
- Developed an understanding of the darkroom techniques.
- Created a number of your own photographic works.

Course level and skills required:
This course is open to anybody with an interest in darkroom and cameraless photography. You will be given simple demonstrations supported with handouts. No interview is needed to access this course.

When I’ve completed the course, what else can I do to improve my skills?
Rosetta Art Centre offers more advanced courses in Photography awarded by Edexcel (AS and A level) and ABC Awards at level 2 or 3, for you to progress onto.

For further information and advice on the courses at Rosetta Art Centre please contact us.

This introductory session gives you a great taster of working with the process of felt making. You will get a feel for what it is like working with the wool, as well as producing at least one felted piece.

  • – Start Date: from 10/11/2011
  • – Session Day: Every Thursday 6.30-8.30pm
  • – Course Length: One session
  • – Session Length: 2 hours
  • – Location: Rosetta Art Centre
  • – Course Cost: £80
  • – Suitable for all

By the end of the course you will have:
- Gained an understanding of how the felt making process works.
- Experimented with different wools.
- Created at least one finished felt piece.

Course level and skills required:
None. This course is open to anybody with an interest in felt making and textiles.

When I’ve completed the course, what else can I do to improve my skills?
Rosetta Art Centre has a wide range of other visual arts courses for you to do.

For further information and advice on the courses at Rosetta Art Centre please contact us.

Learn how to make photographic prints without a camera. You will be encouraged to experiment and explore this highly creative medium by creating photograms, chemigrams and blueprints. You will learn how to transfer your images onto alternative surfaces from canvas to board to create original works of photographic art.

  • – Start Date: from 10/11/2011
  • – Session Day: Every Thursday 6.30-8.30pm
  • – Course Length: Six sessions, one session per week
  • – Session Length: 2 hours
  • – Location: Rosetta Art Centre
  • – Course Cost: £350 (inc all materials, course & admin fees)
  • – Suitable for all

This photography programme runs over six weeks, two hours per week, and includes a range of cameraless darkroom techniques that have been designed to meet the needs of both beginners and more experienced learners. Photographic techniques include creating photograms, chemigrams, toning and photographic print transfers. At the end of a course you will have a number of prints to take home with you.

The Photography facilities are on the 1st floor, with a purpose built darkroom and studio.

By the end of the course you will have:
– Learned darkroom practice, including care of equipment and safe handling procedures
– Developed an understanding of darkroom and cameraless photography
– Learned various techniques, using an enlarger, creating photograms, chemigrams, toning and developing prints with the correct chemistry.

Course level and skills required:
This course is open to anybody with an interest in darkroom and cameraless photography and intermediate learners. You will be given simple demonstrations supported with handouts. No interview is needed to access this course.

When I’ve completed the course, what else can I do to improve my skills?
Rosetta Art Centre offers more advanced courses in Photography awarded by Edexcel and ABC Awards at level 2 or 3, for you to progress onto.

For further information and advice on the courses at Rosetta Art Centre please contact us.

Learn how to sculpt and model clay in a purpose built potters studio to create your own unique sculptural pieces. You will learn how to use a potter’s wheel, create clay forms and slab coil building. You will be shown how to employ a range of ceramic techniques and methods, to complete your own unique piece.

  • – Start Date: from 08/11/2011
  • – Session Day: Every Tuesday 6.30-8.30pm
  • – Course Length: Six sessions, one session per week
  • – Session Length: 2 hours
  • – Location: Rosetta Art Centre
  • – Course Cost: £350 (inc all materials, course & admin fees)
  • – Suitable for all

This pottery programme runs over six weeks, two hours per week, and includes a range of building techniques that have been designed to meet the needs of both beginners and more experienced learners. Building techniques you will learn include: pinching, coiling, slab building and throwing on the wheel. Items you make can then be decorated using a variety of approaches such as sprigging, wax resist, or brushwork, as well as applying colour with under glaze, slips and glazes. The course is specifically designed using stoneware, which is a high firing clay body and objects made can range from tableware to garden pots or sculptural forms.

The Pottery room is on the ground floor and the building has a disabled access. Facilities include three electric wheels, an electric kiln and a wide range of glazes and under glaze colours. Basic tools will be provided and you will have the chance to buy a set for your own use.

By the end of the course you will have:
– Learned about studio practice, including care of tools and health and safety in the pottery studio.
– Have developed an understanding of the nature of clay and the various building techniques that can be used when making with clay.
– Learned techniques of hand building, including pinching, coiling, and various ways of decorating the surface of your made item. You will have experimented with throwing on the wheel to see if this is something you would like to develop further.

Course level and skills required:
This course is open to anybody with an interest in clay building, from complete beginners to the more advanced learners who want to improve their skills further. You will be given simple demonstrations supported with handouts. No interview is needed to access this course.

When I’ve completed the course, what else can I do to improve my skills?
Rosetta Art Centre offers more advanced courses in Ceramics, all awarded by City & Guilds at level 2 or 3, for you to progress on to.

For further information and advice on the courses at Rosetta Art Centre please contact us.

This course is designed to give you an overview of Art History, from its origins to the present day.

The dynamic and enjoyable lectures are illustrated with images, a visit to a museum in London and a final CD with the course material covering a wide span of art history.

  • – Start Date: from 10/01/2012
  • – Session Day: Every Tuesday 6.30-8.30pm
  • – Course Length: Six sessions, one session per week
  • – Session Length: 2 hoursm
  • – Location: Rosetta Art Centre
  • – Course Cost: £310 (inc all materials, course & admin fees)
  • – Suitable for all

The Key Moments in Art programme runs over six weeks, two hours per week, and is designed to give you a broad overview of Art History, from its origins to the present day covering the following periods or units with dynamic interactive presentations:

ANCIENT ART: EGYPT AND MESOPOTAMIA
GREEK AND ROMAN ART
CHRISTIANITY: ROMANESQUE, BYZANTINE AND GOTHIC ART
THE RENAISSANCE
ROMANTICISM AND IMPRESSIONISM
REVOLUTIONS: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART

The programme is intended to adapt and meet needs of both beginners and more experienced learners. The course is specifically designed to help to appreciate and connect to Art of the past and present from our contemporary perspective, and explore what we could learn from previous artists and movements. At the end of the course you will receive a final CD with course material covering a wide span of Art History.

By the end of the course you will have:
– Written a short essay on a specific Key Moment in Art that is meaningful in terms of study or art practice.
– Developed an understanding of the various Key Moments in Art.
– Examined how Contemporary Art is also influenced by the Key Moments in Art.

Course level and skills required:
This course is open to anybody with an interest in Art History, from complete beginners to the more advanced learners who want to improve their knowledge further. No interview is needed to access this course.

When I’ve completed the course, what else can I do to improve my skills?
Rosetta Art Centre offers a range of accredited and non-accredited art courses at level 2 or 3, for you to progress on to.

For further information and advice on the courses at Rosetta Art Centre please contact us.

If you have always wanted to learn how to effectively capture the images you see, then our practical photography course is for you.

You will learn how to use your camera on manual, how to use lighting and the art of composing your picture.

  • – Start Date: from 09/01/2012
  • – Session Day: Every Monday 6.30-8.30pm
  • – Course Length: Six sessions, one session per weeke
  • – Session Length: 2 hours
  • – Location: Rosetta Art Centre
  • – Course Cost: £350 (inc all materials, course & admin fees)
  • – Suitable for all

This photography programme runs over six weeks, two hours per week and aims to allow you to learn and develop basic picture taking skills. The course covers technical skills of camera functions and lighting techniques, but there is also an emphasis on developing your artistic vision when using a camera including compositional techniques and how to get the best out of your subject. The course takes place in the dedicated photographic studio at Rosetta Art Centre.

By the end of the course you will be have:
- Learned how to use camera functions on manual settings giving you creative control over your images.
- Learned principles of composition and framing as well as how to look more carefully.
- Experimented with various creative camera techniques.
- Learned how to use professional photographic studio equipment.

Course level and skills required:
This course is open to anybody with an interest in photography. You will be given simple demonstrations supported with handouts. No interview is needed to access this course.

When I’ve completed the course, what else can I do to improve my skills?
Rosetta Art Centre offers more advanced courses in Photography awarded by Edexcel ('AS' and 'A' Level) and ABC Awards at level 2 or 3, for you to progress onto.

For further information and advice on the courses at Rosetta Art Centre please contact us.

Improve your drawing skills – or learn a new skill. In this course you will be encouraged to try a variety of materials, to experiment with different ways of drawing and to develop rapid mark making techniques to produce a range of work. You will draw from a variety of subjects including still life, models and your imagination.

  • – Start Date: from 09/01/2012
  • – Session Day: Every Monday 6.30-8.30pm
  • – Course Length: Six sessions, one session per week
  • – Session Length: 2 hours
  • – Location: Rosetta Rathbone Studios
  • – Course Cost: £350 (inc all materials, course & admin fees)
  • – Suitable for all

This course runs over six weeks, two hours per week and aims to encourage fresh and exciting approaches to drawing to broaden drawing and mark-making experience. There will be a strong emphasis on experimentation with line, tone, colour and texture. A range of different approaches to drawing and mark-making will be introduced using a variety of media, working with traditional and non-traditional tools such as sticks, carrots, combs, etc., to create expressive figurative and abstract works of art. Alternative methods of drawing, including mono-printing, sgraffito and collage effects will also be explored.

The course will take place at the Rosetta Rathbone Studios in Canning Town.

By the end of the course you will have:
– Experimented with a wide range of drawing media.
– Explored a range of traditional and alternative approaches to drawing.
– Learnt effective visual strategies for building up simple figurative, semi-abstract or abstract compositions.

Course level and skills required:
This course is open to anybody with an interest in drawing from complete beginners to the more advanced learners who want to expand their experience and practice of drawing and mark-making in a spirit of experimentation. Demonstrations of all techniques will be given and supported with handouts. No interview is needed to access this course.

When I’ve completed the course, what else can I do to improve my skills?
Rosetta Art Centre offers more advanced courses in Painting, all awarded by City & Guilds at level 2 or 3, for you to progress on to.

For further information and advice on the courses at Rosetta Art Centre please contact us.

Rosetta Art Centre are proud to be rolling out for 2011 and 2012 a series of evening courses to help you achieve your personal aims in self expression and creative understanding.

Our courses are led by professional, experienced tutors and are open to all levels of proficiency. We are here to help nurture and develop your creativity in an environment suited specifically to help enrich and educate.

Please use the form on this page to view available dates and prices and then book yourself on to your chosen course through the Paypal secure payment system. Any enquiries before you commit to a booking can be directed to david@rosettaarts.org

Full list of courses:
Rosetta Art Centre
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