Craft

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.

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

Fancy taking your cake decorating to the next level? In this class you will learn how to use fondant (or sugar paste) to create decorations for your baked goods.

We will through working with fondant to creating your own fondant figure! Then, piece by piece, we will learn how to create a cute unicorn cake topper!

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.

Crochet ain’t just for your grandma. From accessories to amiguri and crazy teapot covers, crochet is for the young and old alike. After this class, in no time you’ll be able to craft all the yarn necklaces and tiny potted cacti your heart desires.

The iconic Melbourne tram, with it’s green and yellow hues, has become a symbol of this city and oh boy do we miss them! Waiting for them, sitting on them, complaining they are running late… Let’s pay homage to the beautiful and humble tram by making our own at home out of paper!

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.

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

We will learn about the structure of the head, its proportions, how to draw it in perspective, and how to shade your drawings to get a solid 3D look. Plus you learn how to illustrate expressions, different emotions or feelings on the face.

Leave the class with plenty of fun drawing exercises to start your own sketchbook and unlock your inner artist. Everyone welcome !