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TERM 4 CLASSES
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TERM 4 CLASSES
Bookings Open Sat 26th September
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Painting with Friends
Oil Painting
Mondays 9:30am - 12:30pm
19th Oct - 9 Nov
4 weeks
Cost: $20
Painting with Friends groups meet together in a supportive environment to continue their art, encouraging and learning from each other. These groups are untutored. Participants share their experiences and enjoy the company of fellow artists in an informal atmosphere. Members are welcome to stay until 12.30pm if a key holder is available to lock up the studio.
Oil Painting:
Designing the Landscape-
with
Leanne Halls
Mondays 9:30am - 12:30pm
16 Nov to 7 Dec
4 weeks x 3hrs
Cost: $114
This four-week oil painting course is designed for artists with some experience in oil painting who would like to develop their landscape paintings beyond simply reproducing what they see in a reference photograph.
Throughout the course, students will explore how a photograph can become a starting point rather than a set of instructions. We will look at how cropping, composition, tonal design, light, atmosphere and selective detail can be used to create a stronger and more personal painting.
Students are welcome to continue working in their own individual painting style, whether highly detailed and realistic or more expressive. The emphasis will be on developing the skills to make thoughtful artistic choices about what to include, what to simplify, what to change and, importantly, what to leave out
Week 1 — From Photograph to Painting
Explore composition and cropping and discover how a single photograph can provide the inspiration for many different paintings. We will use simple thumbnail studies to experiment with focal points, placement and the arrangement of major shapes before beginning to paint.
Week 2 — Designing with Light
Learn how light, shadow, tonal values and colour temperature can transform the mood of a landscape. Rather than being restricted by the lighting in a photograph, we will explore ways of using light to lead the viewer through the painting and strengthen the focal point.
Week 3 — Atmosphere, Depth & Selective Detail
Explore atmospheric perspective, hard and soft edges, colour and tonal changes to create a convincing sense of distance. We will also look at how selective detail can be used as a compositional tool, allowing detailed areas to have greater impact by balancing them with quieter areas.
Week 4 — Creating Your Own Landscape
Bring everything together to create a landscape from your own reference photographs. We will develop the painting from initial thumbnails and composition through to colour and tonal decisions, giving you the freedom to edit and interpret your references and create a painting that reflects your own artistic vision.
By the end of the course, students will have developed a greater understanding of how to move from copying a photograph to designing a painting, while continuing to develop their individual approach to landscape painting.
Plein Air Painting at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
with
Mel Hills
Mondays 9:30am - 12:30pm
16 Nov, 23 Nov, 7 Dec, 14 Dec
NO CLASS 30 Nov
4 weeks x 3hrs
Cost: $94
Plein air painting is about observational response and the adventure of being in the NOW.
How it is rendered/interpreted is up to the individual.
These sessions are best suited to artists with some prior painting experience that are wanting to extend their painting to the outdoors. It is a great way to develop skills, confidence and resilience.
Topics covered include subject selection, composition, the challenge of changing light conditions, and of course the weather! All this encourages you to work fast which is a great way to learn economy of line and form and loosen up.
Mel will be sketching and demonstrating using watercolour, pen and wash and oil paint.
Students are encouraged to use any media they want (and can carry easily) - branch out and try new things! Seriously, what you feel most comfortable with works best. Mel will share her experience and guide you as you respond to the landscape whilst encouraging you to work in your own style.
Painting with Friends -
Watercolour
Mondays 1.30 pm to 3:30 pm
19 Oct to 7 Dec
8 weeks x 2hrs
Cost: $40
Painting with Friends groups meet together in a supportive environment to continue their art, encouraging and learning from each other. These groups are untutored. Participants share their experiences and enjoy the company of fellow artists in an informal atmosphere. Members are welcome to stay until 4.30pm if a key holder is available to lock up the studio.
Contemporary Painting in Oils or Acrylics- EVENINGS
with Amber Koroluk-Stephenson
Mondays 6:00pm - 9:00pm
19 Oct to 7 Dec
8 weeks x 3hrs
Cost: $188
Classes will focus on contemporary oil and acrylic painting techniques, encourage students to explore a variety of painting styles, considering ways that colour relationships, texture, form, and perspective can make bold, playful and visually dynamic works.
Classes will cover basic tonal values, colour theory and mixing, and ways different types of paint brushes and painting methods can create different effects. This will involve class discussions, tutor demonstrations, individual production time, and one-to-one time between the tutor and students. Suitable for students at all stages of learning. New students will be assisted to progress at their own level and pace as they develop their own approaches to painting.
Light, Depth and Expression in Pastels
with
Jon Watson
Tuesdays 9:30 - 12:30
20 Oct to 8 Dec
8 weeks x 3hrs
Cost $188
This series of pastel classes will introduce a fresh range of techniques to help participants further develop their pastel skills and create more depth, atmosphere and realism in their artwork. The workshop will explore atmospheric perspective, hard and soft edges, reflected light and colour, lost-and-found edges, selective detail, and complementary colours for richer shadows and highlights. Participants will also experiment with directional mark-making and varied pastel pressure to create texture and expressive surfaces while avoiding over-blending. Particular attention will be given to how light influences colour, form and focal points, helping participants produce stronger, more dimensional artworks. Suitable for beginner to intermediate artists.
Painting with Friends -All Media
Tuesdays 1.30 pm to 3:30 pm
20 Oct to 8 Dec
8 weeks x 2hrs
Cost: $40
Painting with Friends groups meet together in a supportive environment to continue their art, encouraging and learning from each other. These groups are untutored. Participants share their experiences and enjoy the company of fellow artists in an informal atmosphere. Members are welcome to stay until 4.30pm if a key holder is available to lock up the studio.
Drawing to Paint in Gouache
with
Leigh Rigozzi
Wednesdays 9:30 - 12:30
21 Oct to 9 Dec
8 weeks x 3hrs
Cost $188
Drawing is a skill that is sometimes overlooked in the development of paintings. There is something wonderfully spontaneous in the interaction of hand, eye, and brain to create a drawing. In each session of this course, we will undertake exercises in drawing that will then be developed into paintings. The preferred medium of the paintings is gouache, an exceptionally versatile and spontaneous medium. There will be a focus on letting go of preconceived ideas and allowing ourselves to play.
Some of the topics covered will include:
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Loosening up our hands (and brains)
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Sketching as a means of generating ideas
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Developing attractive compositions
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Creating drama through tone and colour relationships
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Exploring the spectrum of realism to abstraction
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Incorporating storytelling into our work
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Isometric, oblique, and three-point perspectives
We will look at a wide range of source materials, from the work of classic and modern painters, to comic book artists, to contemporary Tasmanian artists. Some touch-points include the works of Paul Klee, Phillip Guston, Pieter Bruegel, Gary Panter, Ivan Brunetti, Chris Ware, and Nicola Gower-Wallace.
This course is suitable for all skill levels including beginners.
Printing with Friends groups meet together in a supportive environment to continue their art, encouraging and learning from each other. These groups are untutored. Participants share their experiences and enjoy the company of fellow artists in an informal atmosphere. Members are welcome to stay until 4.30pm if a key holder is available to lock up the studio.
Contemporary Painting in Oils or Acrylics- Evenings
with Amber Koroluk-Stephenson
Wednesdays 6:00 - 9:00pm
21 Oct to 9 Dec
8 weeks x 3hrs
Cost: $188
Classes will focus on contemporary oil/ acrylic painting techniques, encourage students to explore a variety of painting styles, considering ways that colour relationships, texture, form, and perspective can make bold, playful and visually dynamic works.
Classes will cover basic tonal values, colour theory and mixing, and ways different types of paint brushes and painting methods can create different effects. This will involve class discussions, tutor demonstrations, individual production time, and one-to-one time between the tutor and students. Suitable for students at all stages of learning. New students will be assisted to progress at their own level and pace as they develop their own approaches to painting.
Painting with Friends - Mixed Media
Thursdays 10am - 12pm
29 Oct to 26 Nov
5 weeks x 2hrs
Cost: $20 (or $5 per session)
Painting with Friends group meet together in a supportive environment to continue their art, encouraging and learning from each other. These groups are untutored. Participants share their experiences and enjoy the company of fellow artists in an informal atmosphere.
Painting with Friends - Pastels
Thursdays 1.30 to 3.30
29 Oct to 10 Dec
7 weeks x 2hrs
Cost: $35 ($5 per session)
Painting with Friends groups meet together in a supportive environment to continue their art, encouraging and learning from each other. These groups are untutored. Participants share their experiences and enjoy the company of fellow artists in an informal atmosphere. Members are welcome to stay until 4.30pm if a key holder is available to lock up the studio.
Expressive Pastel Painting
with Lindy Whitton
Fridays 9:30 - 12:30
6 November to 11 December
6weeks x 3hrs
Cost: $141
This course is suitable for intermediate to advanced students.
This term we’ll focus on creating a portfolio of paintings that focus on our individual styles and subject preferences. We’ll take a look at the works of various pastel artists and see what gives their paintings cohesion as a body of work. There’ll be time for experimentation and play as well as working on the portfolio paintings.
This is an opportunity to take a focused approach and explore who you are as a pastel artist.
Beginners Pastel Painting- Find the Joy!
with Lindy Whitton
Fridays 1.00 - 4.00 pm
6 Nov, 20 Nov to 4 December
no class 13 November
4 weeks x 3hrs
Cost: $94
This class is designed to introduce the beginner or early-stage pastel artist to all the fundamentals of painting with pastels. Its aim is to allow you to learn, experiment and progress in a supportive and encouraging environment and find the joy in pastel art! We’ll cover all the basics through handouts, tutor demonstrations, simple and effective and fun exercises and lots of hands-on practice. We’ll cover:
• Materials: The different pastels and papers available and how they affect the painting process and the finished painting. This will cater to all budgets.
• Mark making. How to use the pastels to create different effects.
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The structure of a pastel painting: From underpainting techniques to the final flourishes
• Value , shape and colour: the basis for all paintings
Ways to Draw
with
Rosie McKeand
Saturdays 9:30 - 12:00
24 Oct to 14 Nov
4 weeks x 2.5 hrs
Cost: $80
The classes will offer an opportunity to explore a range of drawing mediums skills and techniques, as well as the fundamental elements of drawing such as tone, space, line, form and composition.
We will explore different avenues and ways to draw that can build confidence and an individual style to support you on your creative journey.
Colour Confidence in Watercolour
with
Leanne Halls
Saturdays 10am - 1pm
21 Nov to 12 December
4 weeks x 3hrs
Cost: $114
This four-week course can be taken as a stand-alone beginner course or as a continuation of the beginner watercolour courses offered throughout the year.
Designed to build confidence in using colour, each week we will explore a different aspect of colour and apply what we learn directly to a painting. We will explore colour temperature, colour mixing, colour harmony and expressive colour, while continuing to develop practical watercolour skills.
Light and Atmosphere- Expressive Landscapes in Watercolours
with
Leanne Halls
Saturdays 1.30pm - 4.30pm
7 Nov, 21 Nov to 12 December
NO CLASS 14 November
5 weeks x 3hrs
Cost: $138
This five-week course explores the exciting possibilities of painting light, atmosphere and the landscape in watercolour. Building on fundamental watercolour skills, students will learn how to simplify a landscape, create a sense of distance and atmosphere, and use the beautiful transparent qualities of watercolour to capture changing light, skies, water and reflections.
Rather than concentrating on fine detail, students will be encouraged to work with confident washes, expressive brushwork, colour and lost-and-found edges, learning how to suggest a landscape without feeling the need to paint everything they see.
Students will work through demonstrations, short exercises and finished paintings while developing a greater understanding of tone, colour, composition, edges and water control. The emphasis throughout the course will be on becoming more confident and expressive with watercolour while learning to see the landscape as a painter — simplifying what is there and capturing its light, mood and atmosphere. Suitable for students who have completed a beginner watercolour course or already have some basic experience with watercolour.