Creative Industries

Enjoy a smorgasbord of ceramics techniques

This course covers a range of ceramic techniques and is aimed at beginner to intermediate students. The techniques taught in class may include wheel-throwing, sculpting, hand-building, texturing and decorative techniques, slab-building, coil-building and glazing.

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Requirements

• You must wear enclosed shoes e.g. sneakers or leather type shoes

For this course, you will need to bring:

• Old towel or apron
• Any objects you like to use to texture clay e.g. shells, lace, stamps (optional)
• Own wheelwork tools (optional)

What is provided
Clay will be supplied for projects undertaken in the course. Any projects/items outside of this short course content will not be fired and the lecturer has the right to reject work that is outside the scope or mass produced.

Please note that there has been an update to the materials provided in ceramics short courses. There will be up to 2 bags of clay supplied to students for projects undertaken in the course. Additional clay can be purchased from the Bookshop and collected from your lecturer in your class.

Please let us know if you are left-handed so we can provide you with a suitable ceramics wheel for the course.

These popular art classes for children are held at North Metropolitan TAFE's art building at 12 Aberdeen St in Perth.  The purpose built art studios are centrally located and accessible via the CAT bus link and within easy walking distance from the Perth train station.

This six week course on Saturdays is specially designed for children between the ages of 9 and 15 who want to extend their skills in art through a range of traditional and experimental approaches.  The classes are taught by qualified and experienced art lecturers. Class size is limited to 12 to maximise the tuition and is split into two groups, one for 9-11 year olds and the other for 12-15 year olds.

This course provides a range of activities ranging across painting, drawing, collage, print, sculpture, ceramics as well as experiments in perspective and compostion and reference is made to artists and art movements.  The course includes visits where appropriate, to North Metropolitan TAFE's Art Gallery to talk about contemporary art and incorporate it into the children's creative work.

North Metropolitan TAFE's popular art classes for children are held at our art building at 12 Aberdeen St in Perth.

This six week course run on Saturdays is specially designed for children between the ages of 7 and 10 years who want to extend their skills in art through a range of traditional and experimental approaches.  The classes are taught by qualified and experienced art lecturers and the class size is limited to 12 to maximise the tuition.

This course provides a range of activities ranging across painting, drawing, collage, print, sculpture, ceramics as well as experiments in perspective and compostion and reference is made to artists and art movements.  The course includes visits where appropriate, to North Metropolitan TAFE's Art Gallery to talk about contemporary art and incorporate it into the children's creative work.

The purpose built art studios are centrally located and accessible via the CAT bus link and within easy walking distance from the Perth train station.

For further information contact us on 9427 1318 or via email at: gallery@nmtafe.wa.edu.au

North Metropolitan TAFE's popular art classes for children are held at our art building at 12 Aberdeen St in Perth.

This six week course run on Saturdays is specially designed for children between the ages of 7 and 10 years who want to extend their skills in art through a range of traditional and experimental approaches.  The classes are taught by qualified and experienced art lecturers and the class size is limited to 12 to maximise the tuition.

This course provides a range of activities ranging across painting, drawing, collage, print, sculpture, ceramics as well as experiments in perspective and composition and reference is made to artists and art movements.  The course includes visits where appropriate, to North Metropolitan TAFE's Art Gallery to talk about contemporary art and incorporate it into the children's creative work.

The purpose built art studios are centrally located and accessible via the CAT bus link and within easy walking distance from the Perth train station.

An introduction to drawing

This course is an introduction to basic approaches and materials used in drawing. It is intended to give beginners a foundation to work from, as well as a refresher course for those who already have some skills and experience. The aim is help you develop your drawing skills, hand-eye co-ordination and exploration of your own creativity. You'll be introduced to exercises in still-life (objects), linear perspective, portraits, expression and life-drawing (nude or draped model). The range of materials includes pencils, graphite, charcoal, ink and papers.

You will be supplied with basic materials for drawing (paper, charcoal, ink, pencils, and erasers) during the class.  You are welcome to bring along any further drawing materials that you already have and would like to explore in the class.

Dress requirements

• You must wear enclosed shoes e.g. sneakers or leather type shoes

Bring together text and graphics with InDesign - the industry-standard publishing software

Learn the skills you need to develop and design creative promotional material such as flyers, pisters and brochures with this introductory InDesign course.

You'll cover the basics such as:

• Creating documents
• Presets
• Styles
• Swatches
• Packaging
• Printing

You'll also go over master pages, templates, document management, workflow, tables, interfacing with spreadsheets, forms and interactive buttons amongst other InDesign essentials.

You will need to bring along a thumb drive (2GB will be fine) for this course.

Make your own silver jewellery

Extend your jewellery making skills

This course builds on skills and techniques in jewellery making such as soldering and is perfect for those who have completed the Jewellery Beginner course or have previous skills in jewellery making.

Dress requirements

• Participants must wear enclosed shoes e.g. sneakers or leather type shoes
• Clothing that covers legs e.g. jeans
• Long hair must be tied back
• You will need to bring an apron or smock

Develop your own projects in our facilities

Jewellery Advanced Studio is a practical studio-based course for experienced practitioners of silver and metal jewellery making. This course is great for participants who have completed Silver Jewellery Beginner and Silver Jewellery Intermediate courses or already possess sound workshop practices and metal jewellery skills such as soldering.

Depending on your skills you will have the choice to participate in structured classes or work on your own projects under the supervision of an experienced jewellery tutor.

Dress Requirements

• Participants must wear enclosed shoes e.g. sneakers or leather type shoes
• Long hair must be tied back and any long accessories must be removed when working on the machines

You will need to bring your own metals and materials.

Take your photos to a new level

This course will teach you how to use Lightroom, from basic techniques through to more advanced applications (such as portrait retouching). Moving beyond just taking photographs, this course will help you develop your body of work and lead you down the path to getting the work shown to a wider audience.
This is a practical course - you will have access to a computer in the classroom to use the techniques and methods as they are explained and demonstrated by the lecturer.
 

You will need to bring:

• USB with images
• Pen and notepad

Explore the way paint can achieve different effects

This course will introduce you to the fundamentals of painting. You will learn the correct procedure for colour mixing and paint application. Each participant will be taken through a series of exercises to help them acquire the skills for painting. The course will conclude with the production of a still life painting.

Dress requirements

• Participants must wear enclosed shoes e.g. sneakers or leather type shoes

You will need to bring

• Apron or oversized shirt
• Own brushes (optional)

Photo restoration & editing in a day

You'll learn how to prepare and scan precious original photographic prints and then repair, rebuild and enhance images to prepare them for use as new prints and as digital files. This courses is designed for people who wish to fix old family and historical photographs to share and preserve for perpetuity. This work can simply be done with a scanner and a computer running Photoshop.

What to Bring

• Students are encouraged to bring their own prints that require restoration work.
• A USB to save work completed during the course.

Get the most out of your digital camera

Learn the fundamentals of using a DSLR (digital single lens reflex) camera with this short course that demonstrates the advantages of using a DSLR in manual mode thus harnessing the creative potential of the camera.

The course is a blend of:

•     Helpful theory in easy to understand formats.
•     Clear demonstrations of how to put the theory into practice.
•     Practical activities, including a shoot on location.
•     Ample opportunities for questions and further clarification.
•     Lecturers who are keen to assist you with taking your photography to the next level.

You will need to bring

• Your DSLR camera or digital compact camera with manual shutter speed, aperture and ISO controls
• Pen & notepad

Expand your photography skills

Follows on from the Photography Stage 1 course and allows photographers to take their photography to the next level.

This course provides students with skills that allow them to develop their personal vision as well as introducing more specialized areas such as artificial lighting, close-up photography and Lightroom.  Moving beyond just taking photographs, this course will help the photographer develop their body of work and lead them down the path to getting their work shown to a wider audience.

You will need to bring:

• Your DSLR camera or digital compact camera with manual shutter speed, aperture and ISO controls
•  Pen and notepad
• You must wear enclosed shoes e.g. sneakers or leather type shoes

Photography - the traditional way

The course is aimed at photographers who want to move away from the clinical environment of the digital lab and rediscover the magic of traditional wet darkroom photography processes. The course provides black and white film developing and print making techniques. It includes a large component of self-directed darkroom time where you may use the facilities under the guidance of the lecturer to refine your black and white printing skills. You may print your own negatives or those existing in your family archives.

As a photographer, do you want to learn Photoshop fundamentals?

In this five week introductory course you will be taken from the ground up to develop a sound understanding of the photography related principles that are used in Photoshop.

You will be guided through a workflow from digital capture to the production of photographic quality prints and social media content.
This course is taught on Apple computers using industry standard colour managed monitors. Basic instruction in the use of a Mac computer is included in the course. Use of the Adobe Photoshop program is virtually identical on a Mac or PC platform.

You will need to bring:

• USB (16Gb plus)
•  Notebook & pen

Do you want to learn new sewing techniques?

If you have completed the Beginner Sewing 1 short course or already have basic sewing and cutting skills then you can enrol in Beginner Sewing 2 where you will learn new skills and build confidence with techniques such as flat felled seams, French seams, darts and zip closures.

During this course you will:

• Construct a unisex pyjama shirt continuing on from the project covered in Beginner 1
• Incorporate new techniques such as button holes, button stand, interfacing, patch pockets, sleeve and collar construction
• Build a sewing techniques file of seams and finishes

Dress requirements
You must:

• Wear enclosed shoes e.g. sneakers or leather type shoes
• Tie back long hair
• Remove any long accessories when working on the machines

What to Bring
For your first lesson you will need:

• 100% cotton fabric with no stretch - either 2.2 metres for short sleeve pyjama option or 2.6 metres for long sleeve option

From week two you will also need to bring along:

• Tape Measure (the soft flexible type)
• Fabric Marker
• Quick Unpick
• Berry headed pins
• Hand sewing needles
• Dressmaking scissor
• General paper scissors
• Pen, pencil, ruler, eraser and display book for notes
• A box or container or bag to keep items in
• Steel thimble (optional)
• Needle Threader (optional)
• Wrist pincushion (optional)