Develop Your Painting and Drawing with Brandt Lewis

All skill levels welcome including beginners.

Students will develop basic drawing and painting techniques and move on to more individual approaches. This firm foundation of skills in a range of media allows students to develop a personal style. Lessons investigate several genres including still life, portrait, life drawing/painting and landscape. Students may also work on personal projects.

Classes will touch on the following areas:

Drawing

• Shading/rendering techniques in pencil and charcoal
• An introduction to perspective
• Measuring techniques
• Layout methods
• Ink pen/brush methods
• Tonal range studies
• An introduction to chalk pastels

Painting
*Your choice of oils or acrylics*

• Underpainting
• Underdrawing
• Wet-into-wet
• Glazing
• Intermediate varnishing
• Coloured grounds

The cost includes two model sessions. 

About Brandt Lewis

Brandt Lewis is an exhibiting artist with a Master of Arts from COFA (Drawing) and post-graduate qualifications in painting and teaching. He has had 18 solo and 75 group exhibitions.

Brandt is a very experienced teacher - having taught for over 30 years at institutions including TAFE, NIDA, The National Art School (NAS), Willoughby Arts Centre, University of Sydney, and other public and private art schools.

He has been a selected finalist in several prestigious art awards including the Doug Moran Portrait Prize, Blacktown City Art Prize, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Glebe Art Prize, Lane Cove Art Award and Muswellbrook Art Prize.

See some of Brandt's work here.

Materials List

Please contact the tutor for a materials list

Brandt Lewis
Telephone: 9341 7483 or 9559 5938
Email

Terms & Conditions

Please choose carefully as fees are non-refundable. Refunds of course fees will only be given if the course is cancelled or a place is not available in the course.

Payment of course fees implies that you have read and agree to the WAC Terms & Conditions.