Our workshop program for adults runs year-round and includes one-day and two-day weekend workshops or masterclasses. Occasionally, we run specialised workshops at other times throughout the year and workshops with special guest tutors. We carefully curate workshops for beginners and intermediate artists so there's something for all experience levels.
When you enrol in three or moreworkshops for adults in one transaction you'll a receive 10% discount on your fees.
Have you always wanted to create a travel sketchbook with beautiful sketches created outdoors? If yes, join us on the Urban Sketching & Walking tour starting in Circular Quay and ending in The Rocks. Learn how to transform your surroundings into captivating sketches by mastering key tips, skills and strategies. Explore the urban environment with a professional artist with 25 years’ experience in freehand sketching in art, architecture and urban design to capture street scenes,...
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In this class learn how to mix a range of different blues to add drama and appeal to your still life. In Susie's classes, students learn tips and tricks for keeping watercolours transparent and beautiful. You will come away with a feeling of wonder and addiction to this extraordinary watery paint and be confident that you can tackle anything. Is this course right for me? While all levels of artists are welcome, some prior experience with watercolours is recommended. Students should...
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$200Limited
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Watercolour Workshop | Blues and Whites | Susie Murphie
SPECIAL! Enrol in 3 or more workshops for adults in one transaction and receive 10% discount on your fees. Discount applied at the checkout. No further discounts apply.
Join Mellissa Read-Devine for this bold and colourful still life workshop focussing on florals. Immersing yourself in the glorious freedom of colourful, bold brushstrokes. Students can either bring in a bundle of their favourite florals to set up a still life, work from your garden photos or from another inspiration source. What to expect Students will learn: To simplify shapes and keep your colours bold and bright About colour mixing How to build and balance the composition How to...
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$195Limited
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Acrylic Painting | Fabulous Florals with Mellissa Read-Devine
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Course Overview Getting ready for the summer season and learn how to use this most portable and beautiful of mediums to record happy moments. Workshop theme: The Holiday Sketchbook aka Travel Sketching Join us for a one-day travel sketching in watercolour workshop. Tanya will teach you how to simplify scenes and capture them quickly. You'll learn to use a few pigments, set up compositions with colour washes, and practice sketching familiar subjects. We'll focus on capturing light...
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$180Limited
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Working With Watercolour Workshop with Tanya Baily | Travel Sketching
SPECIAL! Enrol in 3 or more workshops for adults in one transaction and receive 10% discount on your fees. Discount applied at the checkout. No further discounts apply.
Christmas is nearly here, time to get festive and make a centrepiece for your Christmas table! Make a bright Christmas tree using basic clay hand-building techniques. Add some candy canes or stars to decorate your tree and make it special! What will students take home? A fired ceramic sculpture for you to proudly display. The artworks made in this class will be fired in our kiln so kids will not take their artwork home on the day. The work needs to dry out before bisque firing, we...
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$90Limited
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Ceramic Coily Christmas Trees | Family Class
<p>Christmas is nearly here, time to get festive and make a centrepiece for your Christmas table! Make a bright Christmas tree using basic clay hand-building techniques. Add some candy canes or stars
Art Est. is delighted to welcome Idris Murphy back as guest tutor to our Summer Art School. Students are encouraged to bring finished works and works in progress and Idris will work with students on an individual basis. You could also start new works as part of this master class. The workshop focuses on using acrylic paints, but oil painters are also welcome. Leading Australian contemporary landscape painter, Idris Murphy, is one of the most individual and highly respected artists...
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$600Limited
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Master Class | Landscape Painting Studio with Idris Murphy
SUMMER ART SCHOOL | This two day master class style workshop is for experienced painters and is not suitable for beginners. Price excludes materialsSPECIAL! Enrol in 3 or more workshops for adults in one transaction and receive 10% discount on your fees. Discount applied at the checkout. No further discounts apply.
Join the incredible artist and ceramicist Niharika Hukku to learn to paint onto bisque-fired surfaces where your bisque-ware is your canvas. Niharika is known for her exquisite illustrative designs painted onto ceramics. From flowers and fish, to birds and botanicals - her work gives a new reality to hand-built and decorated ceramics. Niharika will guide you through her unique process to beautifully paint a ramen-style ceramic bowl. She will facilitate your ideation and encourage...
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$260Limited
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Painting on Ceramics with Niharika Hukku | One day workshop
Art Est. is delighted to welcome Ross Laurie as guest tutor for this Master Class. Ross captivates his students with his thought-provoking teaching style and warm rapport. This Master Class has a focus on observing images of landscape and ways to translate the landscape into art using oils or acrylics. The workshop is about drawing and painting from your own images and memory, and being exposed to ideas and influences that will assist in you reaching your full potential guided by...
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$790Limited
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Master Class | Making your Mark on the Landscape with Ross Laurie
In this fun hand-building class you will sculpt and decorate a quirky, colourful bird using your own creativity. No experience necessary, as you will be shown various clay sculpting methods including coiling and slab techniques to construct your bird. Use textured rollers to give your bird different patterns on their feathers and paint with underglazes, to bring colour to their bird. If you like you may bring pictures of birds that interest you for inspiration. What to expect This...
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Overview Drawing - an insightful and dynamic endeavour of the mind and body. Come and enjoy a weekend workshop all about drawing - expressive, gestural, direct, sensitive, and raw! Both days are packed with inspiring techniques that will supercharge countless drawing possibilities. The structure of the workshop will expose participants to a wide range of mark-making techniques. There will be drawing project after drawing project — some beautifully brief, others longer. Enrol in...
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$500Limited
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Drawing Bootcamp | Expressive Drawing with Jody Graham
SPECIAL! Enrol in 3 or more workshops for adults in one transaction and receive 10% discount on your fees. Discount applied at the checkout. No further discounts apply.
