Beth Rodway
Beth Rodway is an artist whose works focus on telling stories. Beth creates sets for the imagination. Her works explore still lifes within interior spaces and span across blue ink drawings and colour acrylic paintings.
Christmas Table Decorations with Beth Rodway
Ref: D1D43152
About this course
Create a beautifully coordinated collection of hand-painted decorations for a festive Christmas table with Artist Beth Rodway. Inspired by winter plants, flowers, birds and celestial imagery, you will develop your own set of decorative motifs before applying them across taper candles, place cards, menus and paper ornaments.
Course Description
The course will begin with drawing and design exercises using seasonal foliage, stars, moons and folk-inspired symbols as starting points. You will explore how to simplify these forms into elegant motifs and develop a limited colour palette that brings the different pieces together. We will consider composition, repetition, decorative borders and the relationship between objects arranged across a table. You will decorate taper candles with delicate botanical and celestial designs. You will then translate your imagery onto paper, creating coordinating place cards, a hand painted menu and hanging paper tree decorations. You will explore painting and drawing, combining expressive marks with carefully observed details.
Suitable for beginners as well as those with creative experience, this relaxed evening workshop encourages a playful and personal approach to festive decoration. By the end of the course, you will have created a complete set of handmade pieces ready to use for a Christmas gathering or give as thoughtful, individual gifts.
Course Materials
Included
On this course the College will supply all the materials including:
- A variety of acrylic paints
- Synthetic round brushes
- Stationary
- Cartridge paper and card
- Flowers to draw from
- Box to take your products home
- Candles
- Ribbons
Timetable
This course takes place at our London Bloomsbury campus between 18.00pm to 21.00pm
General Information
Tutors
Further study options
Take the next step in your creative practice, with foundation level to Masters in Fine Art study.
Depending on your experience, start with an Online Foundation Certificate in Art and Design (one year, part-time), a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design made up of 10 short courses taken over two years (part-time) or advance your learning with our BA (Hons) Art and Contemporary Craft: Materials, Making, and Place (six years part-time). All will help you develop core skills, find direction in your practice and build an impressive portfolio in preparation for artist opportunities or higher-level study. See all degree and diploma courses.