Painting

Melbourne’s Hoddle grid is full of wonderful heritage buildings. Have you noticed their details and flair? Would you like to know them a bit better? let’s capture our favourite memories of these places and draw, ink and watercolour a heritage building.

Marloes will guide us through the process, offering tips and advice on how to use watercolours, pens or markers to create your own watercolour heritage building image. This class is suited to any age and skill level.

Learning how to create your own beautiful decorative and personalised map of the neighbourhood of your choice is fun!

Create a lovely illustrative map of some of your favourite spots to hang out, your neighbourhood or a treasured holiday journey. These can decorate your home? or send to friends and family as a way of sharing your favourite haunts and moments with those you care about.

Join us and illustrate the iconic landmarks and places in your life – like the best place to brunch? and revisit your favourite places by putting them down on paper.

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 !

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.

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!

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!

In this class you will create your own unique galaxy… with watercolours! Get lost in the stars end enjoy a relaxing and mindful painting class.

Learn how to play with the fluidity of watercolours and mix tones together to create a beautiful cloudy galaxy. Add some stars, constellation or other celestial bodies of your choice. You will each create your own personal watercolour to take home and leave with the skill to create some more at home!

Learn to use watercolour to create beautiful brush calligraphy.

Mix the colours and play with the unique quality of watercolour to create beautiful illustration with letters. Use this technique for cards, posters, or any illustration you can think of!

Emilie will share tips and techniques to use letters in composition, improve your brush skills and try different colour palettes!

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!