Cultural Symbols & Creative Patterning

Course Number: ARTS1667

This course will benefit painters, collage artists, quilt makers, fibre artists, and printmakers with or without prior experience. Explore the symbols, patterns, art, architecture and music from a variety of cultures around the world. India, Nepal, Israel, Australia, Tibet, Mexico, Japan, Africa, Ireland and more will be included in inspirational and creatively adventurous investigations. From a study of the meaning and use of the five universal symbols - circle, square, triangle, spiral, and cross - you will begin to create your personal palette of images. Explore and experiment with a wide range of materials: watercolours, acrylics, pencil, charcoal, acrylic mediums, rice papers and gold leaf papers to create a series of art explorations. Automatic drawing, painting techniques, resist painting, collage, and plaster relief work on a variety of papers will be used to support the desired effect for surfaces. You will also create a personal mandala on a large stretched canvas using your new repertoire of symbols, patterns and colours. A mandala is a symbol, usually circular and sometimes square, that can release creative blocks and lead to personal insights and artistic discoveries. Art technique demonstrations and presentations with visuals will be rich and plentiful.

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