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Painting Classes
AN INTRODUCTION TO PAINTING AND COLOUR
Length: 8 weeks Cost: $245
This course will start by introducing the student to the basic techniques in painting. This is an important part of the painting process that many students don’t properly understand. We will introduce students to colour theory and the use of graduated studies and exercises. You will be guided through a series of painting exercises, beginning with colour mixing and understanding the colour wheel. All the basics will be covered i.e. preparing painting surfaces and the use of different tools.
Students will also work towards producing ‘finished’ paintings based on the theories and exercises introduced over the course of study. This class will save you hours of wasted time and paint. It will deal with the method of structuring the painting palette and mixing techniques, control of colour and identifying colours, properties of oil painting and the application of paint of mediums
Time: Monday Evening 6.00 - 9.00pm Artist: D’Hange Yammanee
AN INTRODUCTION TO OILS AND COLOUR
A SIMPLE APPROACH FROM BEGINNING TO END
Length: 8 weeks Cost: $245
This course is designed to teach basic colour theory and the step by step process of constructing a painting. You will learn how to get from a blank canvas to a final image efficiently with a minimum of confusion, as well as how to confidently approach any colour mixture.
The course will also answer many questions about different materials used in oil painting and how to structure your palette. A series of demonstrations held throughout the term will explain procedures designed to help you progress to creative finished art. This is an excellent introductory course however, continuing or more advanced students will have the opportunity to enhance their skills and techniques with ongoing tuition working on projects using photographic references. Continuing or more advanced students will have the opportunity to develop their skills and work on new projects.
Time: Tuesday 9.30am - 12.30pm Artist: Tim Garrity
Time: Wednesday evening 6.00pm - 9.00pm Artist: Tim Garrity
Time: Saturday 9.30am - 12.30pm Artist: Tim Garrity
INSPIRATIONAL OIL PAINTING - TEACHING TRADITIONAL SKILLS
Length: 8 weeks Cost: $245
This course provides an introduction to the rich traditions of oil painting. We have designed this course to encompass all aspects of creating a painting, using photographic reference to help you increase your knowledge of composition, materials, and glazing techniques. You will learn to build up and utilise the under-painting and then to apply colour in the form of glazes. You may apply this method to any painting including still life, landscape, portraits, and the nude.
Under the guidance of an experienced teacher, students will also work towards producing ‘finished’ paintings to encourage individual creative styles while you pursue your own projects. This system is perfect for beginners or students that are more advanced. Continuing students will have the opportunity to enhance their skills with ongoing tuition. You will produce amazing original paintings using this method.
Time: Wednesday 9.30am - 12.30pm Artist: D’Hange Yammanee
Time: Friday 9.30am - 12.30pm Artist: Dragan Milosevic
TEACHING TRADITIONAL SKILLS
Length: 8 weeks Cost: $245
This course will centre around the essential elements of painting the still - life to teach students how to begin, compose, underpaint, develop colour and use glazing to add depth, and to finally finish a painting. Students will learn what to look for when viewing subjects, and how to think in terms for warm/cool, transparent/opaque. You will be taught the correct colours to use based on a more traditional palette and the colour wheel based on this palette as opposed to the bright hued colour wheel usually used that has little practical application.
Nick's approach to teaching would be to generally demonstrate all the various techniques he employs to produce different effects. Nicks techniques involve the use of glazing to create depth in transparent areas (shading, shadow etc.) and the use glazing to create atmospheric unity, applying a final glaze over the entire picture. This sets all the elements within the picture at the same temperature. In his own work he uses a palette of mainly low earths in the tradition of the Dutch School.
Time: Tuesday Evening 6.00 - 9.00pm Artist: Nick Wild
Time: Wednesday 1.00 - 4.00pm Artist: Nick Wild
TEACHING THE SKILLS OF OIL PAINTING
Length: 8 weeks Cost: $245
Discover the beauty of oil painting by exploring a well covered range of styles and techniques. Paint still life, portraits and landscape or any subject of your choice from photographic references in a relaxed friendly atmosphere. You will be encouraged to develop individual styles and expression using oil painting techniques and by observation, you will be guided step by step on how to create your own masterpiece using photographic references. Photographs can include any subject of your choice or from magazines and similar. Individual guidance and demonstrations will be ongoing throughout the term to help students progress to creative finished artworks.
Time: Thursday 9.30 - 12.30pm Artist: Peter Saxon
Time: Thursday 1.00 - 4.00pm Artist: Peter Saxon
CREATE A MASTERPIECE IN OILS, WATERCOLOURS OR PASTELS
Length: 8 weeks Cost: $245
This class is for anybody that has done a little painting before but is still not satisfied with their results. Emphasis will be on helping you to a fuller understanding of your chosen medium, to exploit it with confidence. Learning to resolve problems, extending personal boundaries, and developing visual awareness will be addressed. The student will be guided to develop their own masterpiece. The subject for painting can be anything of your choice from Landscape, Seascape, Portrait, Still life, etc, with the range of medium that you prefer from oils, pastels or watercolour.
Time: Saturday 9.30AM – 12.30pm Artist: D’Hange Yammanee
DISCOVER THE LANDSCAPE IN OIL PAINTING
Length: 8 weeks Cost: $245
Working from photos this course introduces the student to the important elements and principles of design and the practical application of landscape composition, developing an understanding of colour and the best way to capture the illusion of light in landscape oil painting. It will deal with techniques for rendering various elements such as sky, clouds, foliage, buildings, shadows etc. D’hange has won numerous art awards in landscape with his exceptional landscapes displaying versatility and understanding of light and atmosphere. Intermediate and advanced students will be catered for.
He uses the distance between the viewer and the painting to assist in his creation of the illusion of shape. D’hange‘s work is influenced by light, he believes that “Light is life “. Light creates the illusion of tonal value which forms shapes and dimensions; light also creates the moods and feelings of time and space.
Time: Saturday 1.00 – 4.00pm Artist: D’Hange Yammanee
PORTRAIT PAINTING DIRECTLY FROM THE LIFE MODEL IN OILS
Length: 8 weeks Cost: $265
In this class we learn the different approaches to portrait painting, understand important anatomical knowledge, and explore technical skills used to capture the likeness of a model. Portraiture combines two special skills: the ability to work from observation and the capacity to allow the relationship between the painter and the sitter to evolve. Explore the unique challenges and satisfying results involved in the representation of the portrait.
Students will study proportions, gestures and the emotional status of models. This course will address colour, composition, mediums, flesh tones and the importance of and dramatic use of light and shadow as used in reproducing the portrait. Drewfus Gates is internationally renowned for his light-filled realist/impressionist land, seascapes, and portraits. This class is suitable for people with previous experience in oil painting
Time: Thursday 9.30am - 12.30pm Artist: Drewfus Gates
INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED OIL PAINTING
Length: 8 weeks Cost: $245
Under the guidance of an experienced artist, you will be able to evolve according to your individual style and preferences to encourage your own artistic style and express your creative self. You will be encouraged to confront and solve problems of composition, value, intensity, and pictorial dynamics and learn the techniques that will enable you to affect other people's feelings and perceptions. This course is for students with a prior foundation in oil painting who are interested in further developing technical skills and exploring narrative, colour, and the importance of light in painting.
This course is designed for students looking for new approaches or searching for a deeper knowledge of creative processes involved in artistry or for experienced painters who want to further develop their technical skills as they define their personal style. Students will select their own subject matter, process, technique, scale, while they pursue their own projects.
Time: Thursday 1.00 - 4.00pm Artist: Drewfus Gates
DYNAMIC CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT PAINTING
Length: 8 weeks Cost: $245
Start on your journey into the world of abstract art. Develop an appreciation of how to use colour for maximum effect as you investigate colour harmony, texture and accent colours. The course will deal with a variety of the issues and approaches to abstract painting to inspire you, including colour, design, and composition. Examine creative approaches to abstract painting by exploring a variety of different techniques and new ideas. Allow individual creative strengths to emerge. Individual and group discussions will be an important ingredient of this course. This course is suitable for students of all levels.
Time: Monday Evening 6.00 - 9.00pm Artist: Cynthia Ellis
Time: Thursday 1.00 - 4.00pm Artist: Cynthia Ellis
PAINTING IN RICH, VIBRANT ACRYLIC OR OIL
(SEMI REPRESENTATIONAL PAINTING)
Length: 8 weeks Cost: $245
Kim is a practising artist with vast experience in acrylics, oils, abstract and semi representational painting and her art is influenced by strong design principles and exciting colours. Experiment with a range of paint mediums and subjects to discover an imaginative approach and fresh ways of finding inspiration. You will explore design, composition, painting applications as well as a variety of painting techniques and methods. Learn to use light, shapes and textures in everyday objects and scenes as the basis for your paintings. Start on your pathway into the world of colour and add a rich vibrancy to your paintings and by working in an intuitive manner you will create exciting new artworks.
Time: Tuesday 9.30 - 12.30pm Artist: Kim Maple
Time: Wednesday Evening 6.00 - 9.00pm Artist: Kim Maple
PAINTING IN RICH, VIBRANT ACRYLICS
Length: 8 weeks Cost: $245
Using colourful acrylic paint, you will work in an intuitive manner painting representational subjects. Discover fresh ways of finding inspiration and explore such things as light and shade, painting applications, as well as a variety of acrylic techniques and methods. Experiment with ranges of paint medium, different subjects and approaches while discovering the many possibilities that acrylic painting has to offer. There will be demonstrations and talks to increase your knowledge of composition and the application of acrylic paint. This course will cover the mixing of colours, creating lighting with colour, finishes for acrylics, translucent pigments and mediums in acrylics and how to use them.
Time: Tuesday 1.00 - 4.00pm Artist: Penny Bladen
EXCITING SEMI-REPRESENTATIONAL PAINTING IN ACRYLICS
Length: 8 weeks Cost: $245
This course will look at the flexibility of acrylics as a painting medium. We will discuss materials (paints, brushes, surfaces, colour and more), the basic principles of design, and look at a variety of approaches to painting that will stimulate and excite you artistically. You will paint in a semi representational style encouraging some risk taking in a supportive environment. Peta will approach colour mixing and colour theory in a way that helps people understand how to use the information to make their paintings more exciting, she uses colour freely but with a focus on tone in colour using a limited palette. There will be some demonstrations of techniques and resource material will be provided to inspire new ways of thinking.
Time: Thursday 9.30 - 12.30pm Artist: Peta Miller
DEVELOP EXCITING CREATIVE ABSTRACT PAINTING
Length: 8 weeks Cost: $245
Amanda is a practising artist and teacher; her paintings have many layers of rich, textured surfaces combined with glowing colour with a storybook quality. Learn to understand the process of semi abstract and abstract art by exploring surface texture, paint, structure, and colour relationships. Students will start with large canvases and by pouring or staining the canvas they will create interesting shapes of colour, weight, forms, mass etc. After drying, more staining or pouring of paint will be applied to layer up the canvas and by painting directly into the canvas you will create abstract or semi-abstract paintings. Other painting techniques can then be applied to this base painting. You will also work on a variety of ways of approaching abstract painting to encourage an individual and imaginative approach to emerge.
Time: Wednesday 9.30 - 12.30pm Artist: Amanda Harris
DEVELOP INSPIRING AND COLOURFUL OIL OR ACRYLIC AND MIXED MEDIA PAINTINGS
Length: 8 weeks Cost: $245
Mitzy's colour filled paintings have evolved continually over the years, today, because of the plethora of fabulous new product available; her style has developed into a mixed media approach. This course will help you develop and expand the understanding of colours (cool/warm) and the entire range of hues achievable from the primaries, complementary colours and their compatibility.
You will learn to explore different approaches from glazing through to impasto and design structures will be covered, especially when creating both negative and positive areas. Painting from still life, utilising photographic reference material or working from your imagination you will create colourful abstract or semi abstract painting; you will build confidence while learning to be creative. Ultimately it is all about giving students, not just valuable information but an enjoyment that is long lasting.
Time: Wednesday 1.00 – 4.00pm Artist: Mitzy Smith
DEVELOP IMAGINATIVE ACRYLIC AND MIXED MEDIA PAINTING
Length: 8 weeks Cost: $245
Learn how a painting is constructed step by step, how it’s all put together, how to mix colours and why we mix these colours, understanding tone, how to achieve certain realistic techniques, learn traditional brush painting together with the use of the palette knife in impasto techniques. Being creative with composition and understanding how colour can convey emotion and mood in a painting. Examine creative approaches and discover new ways to find inspiration by exploring techniques using a variety of media, ideas and subject matter within your work. An individual and imaginative approach will allow individual creative strengths to emerge.
Time: Saturday 9.30 - 12.30pm Artist: Amanda Harris
THE TIME-HONOURED PAINTING OF ICONS
Length: 8 weeks Cost: $245
Unlike other approaches to painting, the creation of an icon does not begin in the artist's imagination. Rather, the student will be taught to traditionally copy and depicted an Icon in the rich iconographic tradition. Each part of painting an Icon is important, from the preparation of the wood to paint on, to the very exacting brush strokes. This course teaches oil and water- based gilding and the protection of gilding in egg tempera.
The student will be instructed on the techniques of egg tempera, brush strokes, egg tempera in icon writing, the practice of icon writing and varnish. You will cover the painting of an Icon, a short history and the conception of Icons (theology). This is an art form in itself and will usually take more than one term to finish.
Time: Friday 1.00 - 4.00pm Artist: Dragan Milosevic
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