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Mixed Medium Collage Painting with Robert

Return to basics, get grounded and channel the freedoms of your inner child again with another of Robert's expressive and hands-on painting classes.   This time we'll be working with acrylic paints and other materials to create textured and tactile painted collages. You could incorporate fabrics or images, magazine cuttings or text into your painting. There'll also be…

Watercolour for Beginners: Colourful Cats with Emilie

Come and enjoy the wonderful world of watercolour paintings! This beginners class will teach you skills and techniques to create your own piece of watercolour art. You will experiment with colour and shapes to create a beautiful image of your cat, or your neighbour's or a fictional one from your imagination! All materials provided. Just…

  • 27th Sep, 2023
  • 6:15pm - 7:30pm (AEST)
  • Level 3 Rooms 14, 15/37 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia

Portrait Drawing for Beginners with Emilie

Come to this drawing class and break the myth about what is often considered the most difficult artistic genre: portraits! Emilie will provide some technical pointers to draw the human faces. Through observation exercises, you’ll learn the basics about proportion, tone and shading. We will try different approaches, draw from observation and from imagination. We…

  • 27th Sep, 2023
  • 7:45pm - 9:00pm (AEST)
  • L3 R14, 37 Swanston St (Nicholson Buidling) Melbourne, 3000 VIC

DIY Eco Paints & Painting: Red-Bellied Parrot with Serene

Come and learn how to create eco paints from safe, natural ingredients from your kitchen! And put them immediately to use as you learn to paint a beautiful red-bellied parrot.   Did you know that know that traditional acrylic paints, while bright and cheery, contain plastics that end up in our waterways?  Not just their…

  • 9th Oct, 2023
  • 6:15pm - 7:30pm (AEDT)
  • L3 R14, 37 Swanston St (Nicholson Building), Melbourne, 3000 VIC

Watercolour for Beginners: Native flowers with Fran

Have you ever wanted to learn watercolour painting? It's a really accessible medium of art making, needing just a few colours, brushes and water to achieve create hues and unique brush marks.  You can also add extra details once dry. This is your chance to learn how to paint some beautiful Australian native floral motifs…

  • 11th Oct, 2023
  • 6:15pm - 7:30pm (AEDT)
  • Level 3 Rooms 14, 15/37 Swanston St, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia

Collage for the Soul with Yianni

Collage isn't new, it's been around for thousands of years. But collage can allow us to be kids again - thinking outside the square, constructing imaginary worlds, scenarios and even poetry.   Discover how collage can help us loosen up, relax and even discover things about ourselves.   Let's have fun and have some interesting…

  • 24th Oct, 2023
  • 6:15pm - 7:30pm (AEDT)
  • L3 R14, 37 Swanston St (Nicholson Building), Melbourne, 3000 VIC