Make a creative start to the New Year at Art Est. Art School’s annual Summer Art School for adults held throughout January 2024
Learn from the best with workshops and masterclasses taught by our regular and guest tutors including: Idris Murphy, Marie Mansfield, Ross Laurie, Sally Mowbray, Tanya Baily, Ash Frost, Paul McCarthy, Jody Graham, Susie Murphie, Tania Mason, Jackson Davies, Michelle Hiscock and Saba Manesh.
Come join them and immerse yourself in a world of art at our spacious airconditoned warehouse studios in Leichhardt.
One, two and three-day workshops and master classes
Workshops for all skill levels and interests
Experienced and award-winning tutors
Painting and drawing classes in a wide range of media and across different genres
A maximum 8-12 students per class for optimal learning
All Summer Art School workshops suitable for HSC and senior school students
Workshops for adults are held daily between 3-14 January, then weekends until 28 January. Workshops for kids and teens are held weekdays 11-22 December and 15-25 January.
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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$200Limited
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Acrylic Painting | Fabulous Florals with Mellissa Read-Devine
Enrol in 3 or more workshops for adults in the one transaction and receive 10% discount on your fees. Discount applied at the checkout. No further discounts apply. No retrospective discounts.
Join designer and ceramicist Rina Bernabei in this unique opportunity to master hand-building a pedestal bowl. Some experience is helpful but not essential. What to expect This is a two-part workshop held over two consecutive days. Your tutor, Rina Bernabei, will guide you through the making process and help make your experience productive, rewarding and enjoyable. Day one: • Planning, instructions and demonstration of slab rolling • Compressing and preparing slabs...
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$300Limited
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NEW | Terracotta Pedestal Bowls with Rina Bernabei | Two-Day Workshop
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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$450Limited
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Drawing Bootcamp | Expressive Drawing with Jody Graham
Enrol in 3 or more workshops for adults in the one transaction and receive 10% discount on your fees. Discount applied at the checkout. No further discounts apply. No retrospective discounts.
Discover the world of oil painting in this immersive two-day workshop designed for beginners. This course serves as an essential introduction to the foundational techniques and principles of oil painting, providing students with a solid understanding of the medium and its potential for artistic expression. Through a carefully structured program, students will learn the fundamental concepts, materials, and methods necessary to create compelling oil paintings. With materials...
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Enrol in 3 or more workshops for adults in the one transaction and receive 10% discount on your fees. Discount applied at the checkout. No further discounts apply. No retrospective discounts. Fee includes most materials.
This watercolour painting class is perfect for absolute beginners or those who have previously enjoyed Susie's workshops and wish to learn tips and techniques for painting with the tricky medium of watercolour. You will come away with a feeling of wonder and addiction to this extraordinary watery paint and be confident that you can tackle anything. What to expect In this course you will: learn how to keep watercolours transparent and beautiful learn about painting a variety of...
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$200Limited
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Watercolours for Beginners and Beyond Workshop with Susie Murphie
Enrol in 3 or more workshops for adults in the one transaction and receive 10% discount on your fees. Discount applied at the checkout. No further discounts apply. No retrospective discounts.
Enrol in 3 or more workshops for adults in the one transaction and receive 10% discount on your fees. Discount applied at the checkout. No further discounts apply. No retrospective discounts.
Join the incredible artist and ceramicist Niharika Hukku to learn to paint onto bisque-fired and clay surfaces. Your work will be fired to make beautiful food safe ceramics. No experience necessary! Niharika is known for her exquisite illustrative designs painted onto ceramics. From flowers and fish, to birds and botanicals - her works gives a new reality to hand built and decorated ceramics. Visit Niharika's Instagram for inspiration. What to expect This is a two-part...
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$390Limited
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NEW | Painting on Ceramics with Niharika Hukku | Two-Day Workshop
This workshop will be about discovering gesture and colour in the landscape through a mix of quick compositional drawings, monoprint works and mixed media colour studies. Student’s drawings and prints will provide the foundation and direction for a major watercolour, acrylic or oil painting on canvas or board. We will look at the compositions of the great masters and examine the colour expression of the Japanese printmakers through to the impressionists and abstract expressionists....
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$450Limited
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Exploring Colour and Gesture in the Landscape | Master class with Ashley Frost
Enrol in 3 or more workshops for adults in the one transaction and receive 10% discount on your fees. Discount applied at the checkout. No further discounts apply. No retrospective discounts. This is a 2 day structured master class for experienced painters. Materials not included.
This Bootcamp will make a big difference to your watercolour painting skills and confidence. Susie will address common mistakes in watercolour painting and how to avoid or fix them. She will teach you how to control your tone, mix colours with subtlety and the correct way to apply paint. She will also cover basic and effective drawing. By the end of the workshop, you will be confident in applying the paint, so it always looks beautiful and transparent. Susie is well-known for...
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Enrol in 3 or more workshops for adults in the one transaction and receive 10% discount on your fees. Discount applied at the checkout. No further discounts apply. No retrospective discounts.
The two-day workshop is a great exploration of the fundamental principles of drawing and painting with watercolour and gouache on paper. The aim is to study botanical specimens - nature and flora, and explore the different and contemporary ways we can paint subject matter. This will lead us to look at other illustrators from ancient times to now. Getting inspiration and learning/borrowing new techniques to place into your own work. Image: Illustrations by Tania Mason What to...
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$400Limited
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Workshop | Botanical Illustration using Gouache and Watercolour with Tania Mason
Enrol in 3 or more workshops for adults in the one transaction and receive 10% discount on your fees. Discount applied at the checkout. No further discounts apply. No retrospective discounts.
Discover the art of sketching urban street scenes through our Urban Sketching & Perspective with Pen and Watercolour Wash! 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 a 20 years’ experience in freehand sketching for architecture and urban design to capture street scenes, buildings and public spaces in sketched compositions – then bring them to life with...
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$400Limited
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Urban Sketching and Perspective with Pen and Watercolour Wash with Gauri Torgalkar
