Painting Classes
We offer over thirty painting classes across a variety of media including acrylics, oils, watercolours and mixed media in a range of traditional and contemporary genres.
Flowers From Life with Jackson Davies / 1 Day Workshop
In this workshop - for oil and acrylic painters - you will learn to paint a bunch of beautiful flowers from life. Jackson will bring fresh flowers on the day for this light-hearted and stress-free workshop that will encourage you to hone your painting skills and challenge you to see what you can produce in a single painting session.
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Secrets of Colour Mixing with Yaeli Ohana / 1 Day Workshop
Learn how to mix any colour with confidence. Using acrylics, students will practice building palettes of colour, use vibrant and more subtle combinations, consider proportion of colour, and use colour accents to bring their paintings to life. We will go in-depth into colour theory, learning how to use the seduction of colour to its maximum potential. If you would like to take your paintings to a whole new level, come to this workshop!
All acrylic paints provided. All levels welcome.
<p>Learn how to mix any colour with confidence. Using acrylics, students will practice building palettes of colour, use vibrant and more subtle combinations, consider proportion of colour, and use
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Travel Sketching with Susie Murphie / 1 Day Workshop
This course has no current classes. Please the waiting list.
Portraits with Mathew Lynn / 2 Day Workshop
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<p>Join award-winning portrait artist Mathew Lynn as he introduces you to the fundamentals of portraiture, or helps you to
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Portrait Painting in Oils with Marie Mansfield / 3 Day Workshop
In this oil painting workshop students will paint a portrait from life. Students will be taken through various steps from painting a monotone through to a colour study in oils. Learn how to observe light, tone and form - and be shown a method of tonal painting to capture a likeness using a limited palette.
**This class is for students with experience.**This course has no current classes. Please the waiting list.
Introduction to Abstract Painting with Yaeli Ohana / 1 Day Workshop
If you’ve always wanted to try abstract and experimental painting but not known how, this is the workshop for you! With step-by-step exercises you will learn exciting new techniques used by abstract and semi-abstract painters to achieve beautiful results. Paint images that you'd be happy to hang on your walls...
<p><strong>Suitable for beginner - intermediate students</strong></p>
<p>If you’ve always wanted to try abstract and experimental painting but not known how, this is the workshop for you! With
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Let's Abstract Further with Jan Cristaudo / 2 Day Workshop
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Practical Colour Mixing and Tones with Mathew Lynn / 2 Day Workshop
In this workshop award winning artist Mathew Lynn will explore with you a direct and intuitive way of colour mixing. Discover how to mix virtually any colour from a limited selection of 11 colours as well as learning to understand tonal dynamics. Together, fluency with colour and tone are a seamless tool by which you can express anything...
<p><em><strong>Suitable for all levels, including beginners.</strong></em></p>
<p>Practice mixing colours and making tones with award-winning artist Mathew Lynn.</p>
<p>In this workshop Mathew will
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Still Life with Mathew Lynn / 1 Day Workshop
Let award winning artist Mathew Lynn guide you through an exploration of still life composition and more broadly ‘objects in space’. You will be taken through drawing techniques to understand composition, proportion, perspective, understanding volumes and shapes, and basic shading and texture to help you understand tones, surfaces and shadows. Mathew will demonstrate the basics of understanding colour and colour mixing, and how to apply paint...
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<h4 id="header-suitable-for-all-levels"><em><strong>Suitable for all levels.</strong></em></h4>
<p>Join award winning artist Mathew Lynn as he introduces you to the fundamentals of Still Life. For
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The Nude in Colour with Anthony Cahill / 2 Day Workshop
Join artist and NAS lecturer Anthony Cahill on a two day workshop focusing on exploring colour and the nude. This workshop is best suited to those with prior experience - intermediate to advanced students.
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<p>A two day workshop focusing on exploring colour and the nude. The workshop is best suited to those with prior experience - intermediate to advanced students.</p>
<p>Topics covered will include:</p>
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