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workshops - home/studio - 2025
at Buderim - Sunshine Coast
'Draw, Draw and more Drawing'
- foundation to all good art - Drawing Workshop
6th - 10th January, 2025 (5 day workshop)
Objectives:
Join Don as he guides you through this inspiring workshop..
Learn the essentials of good drawing techniques as this workshop is designed to give all students a great foundation into drawing and creative mark making. Heaps of great tips and tricks not found in books. Fun and easy to learn skills and techniques.
(All student levels welcome)
previous home workshops from 2024
More 2025 workshops posting soon..
‘Paint With Dynamic Light’
- creating visually exciting paintings
- Acrylic paints and mediums -
8th - 12th January, 2024 (5 day workshop)
Objectives:
Be excited, elated and have a great time painting some amazing paintings as we explore together some of the many aspects of making a good painting....
‘Sunrise - Sunsets’
- brilliant colours with attitude -
- Acrylic paints and mediums -
9th - 10th March, 2024 (2 day workshop)
Objectives:
Romance The Sunset in Paint:- Orange, crimson and golds stretch far and wide, the colours of fiery flames splashed and brushed liberally across our western sky...
‘Draw from your inner artist’
- bold & beautiful - Drawing Workshop
23rd - 24th March, 2024 (2 day workshop)
Objectives:
Create your own fantastic drawing art works. We explore many essential aspects of your drawing process and apply best practice and techniques as you learn with the pencil in your hand and by drawing..
‘‘The Portrait’ - getting a good likeness
- getting a good likeness - Painting Workshop -
4th - 5th May, 2024 (2 day workshop)
Objectives:
Getting a good likeness of your subject is essential to creating a good portrait and this workshop will show you how and give you the tools, skills and techniques to achieve. Proportions, facial features, accurate skin colours and so much more..
‘Colourful, Bold n Beautiful’
- creating exciting paintings - Painting Workshop -
18th - 19th May, 2024 (2 day workshop)
Objectives:
Experimental mark making, dynamic colour choices, textural effects, large brush – small brush techniques, scrappers and so much more.. Then we take all this and make our own visually exciting painting fantastic. This workshop will offer you fabulous opportunities to grow and develop..
‘Draw - Draw and more drawing’
- explore great drawing - Drawing Workshop -
1st - 2nd June, 2024 (2 day workshop)
Objectives:
Create your own fantastic drawing art works in this hands-on workshop which will help advance your entire artistic journey. Focus on drawing and rendering techniques, composition, subject choice, proportions, cropping photos for best use of reference..
‘Favourite Animal-Portrait’
- wild, cute or hug-able - Painting Workshop -
15th - 16th June, 2024 (2 day workshop)
Objectives:
Create a fabulous painting of your favourite furry or feathered friend (wild, cute, beautiful or hug-able animal or bird) Familiarize yourself with the many special skills and techniques required to create a good, life-like ‘Animal or Bird painting’..
‘Big Waves - Let them roll’
- big crashing waves, stormy skies - Painting Workshop -
24th - 28th June, 2024 (5 day workshop)
Objectives:
A fabulous creative painting experience (5 whole days) with lots of fantastic dynamic seascape painting mixed with generous practice painting time as you learn heaps about painting big waves, crashing water, wild oceans and stormy skies. Grow and develop valuable seascape painting skills and..
‘Colouring up the outback’
- inspired by our great outback - Painting Workshop
13th - 14th July, 2024 (2 day workshop)
Objectives:
Colouring up the outback will offer you fabulous opportunities to explore in paint our unique outback scenery, colours, distant mountains, vast open skies, gnarled trees, rocks, textures. Brush and palette knife techniques, etc...
On A Knife Edge - Palette Knife Painting
- Painting Workshop -
27th - 28th July, 2024 (2 day workshop)
Objectives:
Expressive and exciting painting and mark making with the palette knife.
'Colourful city life - painting the streets'
- painting with light & atmosphere - Painting Workshop
24th - 25th August, 2024 (2 day workshop)
Objectives:
Explore and indulge your artistic passions as you create some fabulous Cityscape paintings that you will be proud to hang in your own home. Two full days to learn and practice your new skills and techniques..
'Beautiful Sunshine Coast Beaches'
- Water, waves, sunshine, sand and beaches - Painting Workshop
21st - 22nd September, 2024 (2 day workshop)
Objectives:
Explore our Beautiful Sunshine Coast Beaches through painting and discover new ways to paint our beautiful seascapes thru innovative thinking and better choices with colour, textural effects and the reference you choose...
'Fun painting with colour'
- exciting ways to paint & create - Painting Workshop
2nd - 3rd November, 2024 (2 day workshop)
Objectives:
Painting 'FUN' workshop with colour and attitude. Discover the power of colour and textural effects and so much more… Big brushes, paint rollers, palette knives, scrappers, textural mediums, fun & attitude, sprayers, all mixed with generous amounts of fun and excitement...
'Many shades of grey'
- art passion with charcoal - Drawing Workshop
16th - 17th November, 2024 (2 day workshop)
Objectives:
Explore many essential aspects of drawing & painting with charcoal. Learn and apply hands on techniques to create some fabulous artworks. Heaps of great tips and tricks not found in books. Easy to learn skills and techniques. Drawing and painting with charcoal...
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