Art

Make yourselves a nice cup of coffee and …. Learn how to create beautiful illustrations with it!

We love our cafe culture in Melbourne and we all miss it a lot these days! Why not take a new approach and use your coffee for painting a favourite Melbourne landmark or iconic feature.

In this class, Emilie will teach you how to use coffee to replace ink and create fun and creative paintings. Through a series of engaging exercises, you will learn how to make your coffee ink and get started with doodling, lettering and letting your imaginations run free.

We are all missing our Marvellous city of Melbourne with it’s unique blend of architecture, graffiti laneways, city sculptures, historical parks with gorgeous old tiered fountains or modern water sculptures. So many Melbourne iconic landmarks and laneways, each with it’s own unique flavour. Lets capture our favourite memories of these places and draw, ink and watercolour our favourite Melbourne landmark or lane-way, street-scape or park!

Do you miss being able to enjoy Melbourne’s best sights? Sitting down in Fed Square waiting for a friend while people watching, eating ice cream in Luna Park or enjoying a picnic in the botanical gardens… Or even simply having a coffee in your favourite cafe and then taking a walk along the Merry Creek?

In this class, we will revisit our favourite spots in our great city of Melbourne by creating a fun, personalised map of the neighbourhood of your choice. Illustrating the most iconic landmarks, or the best place to brunch, and revisit your favourite streets by putting them down on paper!

Learn how to elevate your product photos using everyday items you can find at home and garden.

Product photography doesn’t have to be complicated. In this class Tri will share with you many tips and tricks to taking more effective product photography right in your own home using what is at hand.

We are all missing our wonderful city of Melbourne, our favourite hang-outs, the gorgeous parks, galleries and theatres, the Yarra River, Port Philip bay with all it’s diversity, the statues and icons we drive or walk past? So lets capture our favourite icons and together we will draw, ink and watercolour your ‘Stay-at-home still-life” Melbourne Icon!

Emilie will guide you through the process, offering tips and advice on how to use watercolours for observational illustration.

We’ve all heard of urban sketching, a lovely art form creating quick rough sketches while on location, walking around the city or parks. It’s more about the essence of the moment and the fun process than a polished end result.  Normally these sketches fill notebooks along with comments and thoughts about the places visited and can become a beautiful memory log of our trips.  But what to do when you can’t go outside?
Let’s all try window sketching with featured artist Kiki!

Come to this fun class and discover a new technique using mixed medias oil pastels, chalk pastels and acrylic paint to create an etching masterpiece! Its exciting, creative, therapeutic and perfect for any artistic level or skill.
We will be using an animal (photo of your choice) as the artistic focal point, then applying the colourful oil pastels and using an simple etching technique to create a beautiful and playful background.
We will have allocated time to learn the techniques which can be used in the future to complete your artwork

Grab something from your pantry, maybe open a pack of chips or make yourself a cup of tea! Now, we’re going to sit together, draw, ink and watercolour your ‘Stay-at-home still-life’!

Emilie will guide you through the process, offering tips and advice on how to use watercolours for observational illustration.

We are all missing our Marvellous city of Melbourne with it’s unique blend of architecture, graffiti laneways, city sculptures, historical parks with gorgeous old tiered fountains or modern water sculptures. So many Melbourne iconic landmarks and laneways, each with it’s own unique flavour. Lets capture our favourite memories of these places and draw, ink and watercolour our favourite Melbourne landmark or lane-way, street-scape or park!

If you visit galleries in Australia and around the world, you will often see prints made by artists using engraved copper or zinc plates.  You can do this at home but with an easy hack – using milk cartons or juice boxes!

In this workshop you will learn how to design an image for printmaking, engrave your milk box plate, ink it, and then make your own limited edition of prints.