Category: Online Courses

Course Outline Description: 

Learn to draw tessellate and paint the tile from Wazir Khan Mosque using any 2 combinations of your choice (black and white or shades of blue)

Materials required for this course:

1. Drawing paper – size A3 x 2
2. Water colour paper x 1
3. Tracing paper A3 x 1
4. 2H 2B or HB pencils 
5. Good quality compass 
6. 6- and 12-inch ruler and eraser 
7. Marker or fine tipped pens 
8. Water container 
9. Masking tape 
10. Colour palette 
11. Spoon or coin 
12. Paint brushes 1, 2 and 5 
13. Paints-gouache or Watercolours 
14. Piece of cloth

Course Outline Description: 

In this course we will begin with a single eight-fold rosette and learn to tesselate four of them into a square tile formation, allowing the internal pattern of stars and octagons to automatically emerge.  A variation of this tessellation can be found in the wall ornamentation at the shrine of Sachal Sarmast, in Daraza Sharif, Sindh. 

Materials required for this course:

1. Drawing paper – size a3 (since the pattern is tessellated a larger paper size is preferable)
2. 2H or HB pencils
3. Good quality compass
4. 6- and 12-inch ruler and eraser
5. Colour pencils or fine tipped marker for outlining. 

Course Outline Description: 

Learn to draw the variety of classic Islamic geometry pattern shapes derived from basic grid of squares and hexagon, the pattern is used in arches and niche of Shah Jahan Masjid, Thatta in Sindh Pakistan. With basic tools on A3 paper preferably any sketch paper. 

Materials required for this course:

1. A Standard Compass.
2. A3 paper (minimum 5 papers)
3. Tracing paper (minimum 4 tracing paper)
4. Pencil (2H and 2B)
5. Ruler (30 cm is ideal)
6. Eraser
7. Pencil Sharpener
8. Masking tape
9. A flat surface to draw on.

Course Outline Description: 

Paint the pattern with shell gold or gold poster paints or gold gouache on a coloured paper (black, blue, grey, dark red and etc. A4 size) preferably canson. Learn how floral/ biomorphic designs can be used in Illumination manuscripts, with the help of simple geometry.

Materials required for this course:

1. colour paper (canson, pastel paper smooth paper)
2. Tracing paper with the pattern traced on it with any HB pencil for drawing 2B.
3. Steel spoon, coin
4. Paper tape
5. Brushes 0,00,1
6. Paints: shell gold (if available) gold poster colour or gold gouache
7. 2 Jars of water
8. Tissues
9. Compass, ruler and eraser
10. Soft pastel or pigments powder for carbon the design.

Course Outline Description: 

Learn to draw, tessellate and paint a six-fold geometric construction, variations of which can be found across simple and complex designs within Islamic art and architecture.

In this course, you will learn to draw and evolve a simple six-fold pattern into the complex tessellation form as seen in the shrine of Shah Rukne Alam in Multan. You will also learn to paint the pattern with water colour or gouache in a way that is able to recreate the effect as visible in the traditional colours of the art and architecture of the region.

Pattern detail:

• Multan, Mausoleum Rukn-e-Alam
• Multan (Punjab, Pakistan),
• Mausoleum of Shah Rukn-e-Alam
• (built 1320/24 under Sultan Ghiyas-ud-Din Tughluq; transfer of the remains of Rukn-e-Alam, saint of the Sufi order, in 1334; octagonal brick building with decorative tiling and dome).

Materials required for this course:

1. Paper (the tutor will be using A4 paper – 8.3 x 11.7 inches (Preferably Arches or Canson watercolour paper or any water colour paper (300g)
2. Water colours or gouache paints
3. Tracing paper (this is essential)
4. Masking tape
5. Ruler (30 cm is ideal)
6. A standard compass (we recommend Rotring, Ecobra or Staedtler etc.)
7. Pencils (2H and 2B)
8. Eraser and tissue paper or cotton cloth
9. Pencil sharpener

Course Outline Description: 

The medium of choice for medieval and early Renaissance painters, egg tempera creates a luminous, glowing finish that is unmatched by any other medium. 

In this session, students will be introduced to, and have an opportunity to explore this little-known medium.

Materials required for this course:

1. Heavy, hot press/smooth watercolour paper (300gms recommended)
2. Tracing paper with the pattern traced on it with a B pencil 
3. 2H or H pencil
4. Masking tape
5. Watercolour, fine hair brushes. Natural hair preferred. 00, 1, 3 and 5 (Winsor Newton 7 Series; tutor recommended)
6. Flat brush (anywhere between size 4 and 7) 
7. Gouache or watercolour TUBE paints
8. Will be needing 1 refrigerated egg but best of have a couple of spares at hand
9. 9.Bowl (to separate egg yolk and white over)
10. 10.Small, clean, transparent bottle with at least 1″ wide neck
11. 2 jars of water
12. Tissuesor blotting paper 

Course Outline Description: 

Learn how to accurately transfer, cut and paste shapes out of colored card using Marquetry techniques applied to geometric design. Use two to three sheets of colored card (dark, medium, light) to cut out shapes that combine to form the geometric pattern drawn on your base sheet (can be: plain card) when pasted directly on to it in the correct sequence. Understand how the process you have been introduced to compares with marquetry using real wood veneers.   

Materials required for this course:

1. Coloured card 3 sheets total: 1 dark, 1 medium, 1 light
2. 1 Sheet Plain card /cartridge paper/boxboard.
3. Tracing paper with the pattern traced on it with any B pencil
4. Steel spoon, coin
5. Paper tape
6. Pencils one each: 3H or harder, 2B, HB
7. Waterproof pointer 0.3 or finer
8. Paper cutter/ Exacto-knife.
9. Tissues
10. Compass
11. Plastic ruler
12. Steel ruler
13. Eraser
14. Glue stick

Course Outline Description: 

We will be looking at how the same basic design can be tessellated with a square, triangle and a hexagon, and then painted with cool and warm balance of colours.

Materials required for this course:

1. A compass (recommended compass is the Rotoring Master Bow)
2. A ruler
3. Range of Pencils (6B-4H)
4. Tracing paper 5. Zero Eraser or equivalent
5. Optional ‒ Coloured pencils.
6. Optional ‒ Fine line drawing pens (useful to have, but not essential)
7. Canson paper or any water colour paper
8. Water colours or gouache paints
9. Masking tape
10. Watercolour brushes #1 and #4
11. A4 printer paper for blotching and testing
12. Water container with water

Course Outline Description: 

Learn to draw the variety of classic Islamic geometry pattern shapes derived from basic grid of squares and hexagon, the pattern is used in arches and niche of Shah Jahan Masjid, Thatta in Sindh Pakistan. With basic tools on A3 paper preferably any sketch paper.

Materials required for this course:

1. A Standard Compass. 
2. A3 paper (minimum 5 papers) 
3. Tracing paper (minimum 4 tracing paper) 
4. Pencil (2H and 2B)  
5. Ruler (30 cm is ideal)
6. Eraser 
7. Pencil Sharpener  
8. Masking tape  
9. A flat surface to draw on.

Course Outline Description: 

Paint the pattern with shell gold or gold poster paints or gold gouache on a coloured paper (black, blue, grey, dark red and etc. A4 size) preferably canson. Learn how floral/ biomorphic designs can be used in Illumination manuscripts, with the help of simple geometry.

Materials required for this course:

1. colour paper (canson, pastel paper smooth paper)
2. Tracing paper with the pattern traced on it with any HB pencil for drawing 2B.
3. Steel spoon, coin 
4. Paper tape
5. Brushes 0,00,1
6. Paints: shell gold (if available) gold poster colour or gold gouache 
7. Paints: shell gold (if available) gold poster colour or gold gouache 
8. Tissues 
9. Compass, ruler and eraser
10. soft pastel or pigments powder for carbon the design.