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Alternative Bindings
Course Format: Classroom
The first part of this intensive three-day course introduces you to a unique adaptation of the open-spine cord book. Pages are folded into signatures and the signatures are sewn directly onto cords, which get inserted through channels hidden in the construction of the cover boards. The open-spine format allows for pages to open completely flat. This binding style can be used as the basis for a ...
 

Techniques for Photo Transfer
Course Format: Classroom
Photo-transfer processes offer the book artist alternative techniques for incorporating text and image in projects. This course explores different methods of transferring images onto a variety of surfaces that May include fabric, wood, metal, 3D objects and canvas. The processes will be applied to a sampler book as a reference tool and will be discussed in light of personal ongoing projects. Yo...
 

Black-And-White Photo
Course Format: Classroom
This two-week intensive, combining CEPH 141 and 241, provides a concentrated introduction to 35 mm camera operation and basic black-and-white darkroom techniques. Course topics include principles of exposure, use of natural light in photographic imagery, film processing, enlargement techniques and the machine processing of prints. Issues within the larger field of photographic practices are int...
 

Materials & Media in Fine Art
Course Format: Classroom
This course introduces you to the diversity of materials and media used in the contemporary visual arts to create objects and communicate ideas. Traditional and unconventional materials and processes are employed in exercises and projects as you gain an understanding of basic three-dimensional elements such as space, mass, volume, plane and texture. How these elements are affected and can be ma...
 

Form/Concepts/Contemp Painting
Course Format: Classroom
Are you struggling to find your own voice and unique style in your painting practice? This exciting course will teach you the basics of composition and form and how to move beyond them. We will examine fringe art, low brow painting, layering, collage, textural and tactile work, social/political painting, and abstract conceptualism. Capitalizing on paint quality, brush strokes, movement, colour,...
 

Intro to Digital Photography
Course Format: Classroom
This course is designed for those beginning to explore photography with digital cameras, as well as for those adding digital techniques to their current photographic practice. You will learn the basics of digital photography, image editing, and printing. Issues relating to camera settings and image quality will be discussed in the context of the digital revolution. The course will be organized ...
 

Contemporary Comics Level 2
Course Format: Classroom
Continuing from CEGN 160 The Contemporary Comic, this course further investigates story and image. You will continue to explore personal style, story development, character design, and setting as you plan and develop your ideas to produce your own personal comic/graphic novel. Prerequisite: CEGN 160 Contemporary Comics or equivalent
 

Drawing Studio: Life Drawing
Course Format: Classroom
Take advantage of an open studio situation with a model. No instruction is provided. If you have fundamental drawing skills and wish an opportunity to work on your figure or life drawing, this series of weekly sessions is for you. Prerequisite Experience drawing or painting from the model is strongly recommended
 

Rapid Visualization
Course Format: Classroom
Rapid visualization is an effective way to expand visual thinking, create new ideas, communicate concepts and begin to solve problems in the design process. This course introduces you to the methods, techniques and media used in rapid visualization and product rendering for three-dimensional design. Principles of perspective, projection, light, shade, reflection and texture are examined. Freeha...
 

Drawing and Collage I
Course Format: Classroom
This course introduces different approaches to the use of collage in drawing while exploring the process of combining varied two-dimensional materials with drawing media. The focus will be on how variations in shapes and textures alter the composition and mark-making of a drawing. Subject matter will include the model, still life, found imagry and imagination. A wide-range of drawing and collag...
 

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