Response to and our choices of colour are very personal. During this course, students will look at developing an understanding of colour mixing and clarifying how to put colours together within a colour scheme they relate to best. Buying a ready-made colour wheel is useful, but creating your own colour wheel and DOING the colour …
Watercolour workshop for *intermediate* painters with a range of subjects. The joy of painting in watercolour continues with more techniques and a variety of subject matter to discover. *This workshop is designed for those who have learnt the basics (either from the Watercolour Discovery for Beginners workshop or from any beginner class) and desire to become …
Pen and wash is a fresh and fun way of combining some watercolour technique with your drawing skills. A wash is a term for a visual arts technique resulting in a semi-transparent layer of color. A wash of diluted water colour paint applied in combination with drawing is called pen and wash. Pen and wash …
"Art has no boundaries, everyone can create.” Doug Moran and Archibald Prize finalist, Daniel Butterworth is an established figurative and landscape artist, richly expressive and gestural. Daniel’s loose and free approach using Acrylic showcases the speed of his brush strokes to indicate movement with the figure. With a multitude of different colours making up the …
Create two functional, decorated pottery pieces using ceramic transfers and pottery forms.
Master Pastelist Maxine Thompson will show you how to achieve the likeness and character of your subject. You'll learn how to deal with shadows to light up the animal portraits and backgrounds to set up the subject; from choice of paper colour, or tone and colours to enhance edges of the subject, or realistic scenes.
There is much to learn from spending time and doing some still life exercises – composition, some really great learning around light/shade values, reinforcing colour theory and using warm and cool colours to create depth in an image. Our group will be starting this workshop with some quick drawing exercises to get “our eye in” …
This Drawing for Beginners course is based on students learning to look at creating the drawn image in a different way, other than just creating an outline and “colour in”. Students will learn how to create images with depth and dimension by learning about tonal values, turning shape into form by the use of light …
GET CREATIVE WITH WATERCOLOUR! – A weekend watercolour workshop for intermediate to advanced painters. This workshop will inspire you with many ideas for future paintings that don’t involve just painting from photos! We will look at creating a collage incorporating patterned papers, to then paint this new reference in watercolour. Additional media may be added, …
These workshops will be developing existing or discovering new skills within the use of acrylic paint. There are many add-on mediums these days to make acrylic a very versatile and flexible medium to work with, without the smell and slow drying time of oils. We will work on two works in acrylic over four weeks …