Our week-on-week short 4 or 8 week courses allow students to immerse themselves in a range of media, learn new skills and become part of our art community. With classes available for beginners, intermediate and advanced students in a range of subjects.
Mid-course enrolments are welcome in many of our courses.
Workshops
For those interested in a one-off session, try our Weekend Workshops which run year-round on Saturdays and Sundays.
Special Offer: Any adult student enrolled in a short course receives a 10% discount on any weekend workshop in the same term, click below for more information:
Our week-on-week courses allow students to immerse themselves in a range of media, learn new skills and become part of our art community. Our classes are available at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels allowing students to follow through a course of study.
Term 2 commences: 6 May for most classes.
Priority Earlybird Enrolment: 5-14 March (current students have early access to re-enrol)
Early Bird Enrolment: 15 March – 8 April (enrolments are open to everyone)
Beginners: Beginner courses build confidence and skills, exploring the fundamentals and theory of art, including drawing, colour and composition across various media. Students are nurtured and encouraged to find their voice.
Intermediate (some experience): More experienced students can build on their skills by focusing on a particular medium in-depth or finessing a style or technique.
Advanced (Masterclass): For students who are confident and experienced and are striving to explore new or traditional techniques.
Enjoy a day packed with techniques to supercharge countless drawing possibilities. There are lots of projects to immerse yourself in—some beautifully brief, others longer. Join this intensive full-day boot camp to fire up your drawing skills and develop your personal handling of materials and mark-making. In this workshop, you can expect to learn how to be more expressive, explore variety in mark-making, delve into mixed media, and enhance your composition skills. Discover loads of...
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Enrol in 3 or more workshops in the one transaction and receive 10% discount on your fees. Discount applied at the checkout. No further discounts apply. No retrospective discounts.
Grab a friend for a 2.5 hour creative evening in our ceramics studio making your own handmade quirky little monsters. Purge your inner monster (or someone else’s) in this fun and therapeutic workshop. You will be introduced to basic clay hand-building techniques to make your monster. Be prepared to get addicted! What will you achieve You'll sculpt a little monster in clay that will be fired and ready to collect in about 3 weeks time. Your sculpture will be bisque-fired and then...
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$95Limited
inc GST
Little Monsters Clay Sculpture Workshop
<p>Grab a friend for a 2.5 hour creative evening in our ceramics studio making your own handmade quirky little monsters. Purge your inner monster (or someone else’s) in this fun and therapeutic
<p>Grab a friend for a 2.5 hour creative evening in our ceramics studio making your own handmade quirky little monsters. Purge your inner monster (or someone else’s) in this fun and therapeutic
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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In this class paint still life favourites like fruit, lemons or vegetables. 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 artist are welcome, some prior experience with watercolours is recommended. Students should have at least attended a...
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$200Limited
inc GST
Watercolour Workshop | Classic Still Life for Kitchens | Susie Murphie
This two day master class style workshop with Marie Mansfield is for students with prior oil painting experience who would like to improve their landscape painting skills. The focus of this two day workshop is painting tonally as it relates to painting landscapes en plein air (ie out in the field). Enjoy two days of working both in the studio and in the field at a nearby outdoor location. You will gain a solid understanding and observing tone and observing light - vital ingredients...
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$425Limited
inc GST
Landscape Painting in Oils | En plein air | Marie Mansfield
This 2 day master class is held outdoors en Plein Air. (In the event of inclement or extreme weather the workshop will be held in the studio.) Fee excludes materials.
Create a beautiful and unique pedestal bowl and learn professional tips and tricks for working with clay and texture from designer and ceramicist Rina Bernabei. This is a unique opportunity to learn how hand-building techniques to make a pedestal bowl. Rina Bernabei’s work encapsulates her years of practice as a product designer and explores relationships between handmade craft practices, and digital technologies and manufacture. Her ceramic practice reflects her research of...
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$300Limited
inc GST
NEW | Terracotta Pedestal Bowls with Rina Bernabei | Two-Day Workshop
Learn how to transform your surroundings into captivating sketches by mastering key tips, skills and strategies using pen and wash. Explore the urban environment with a professional artist with 20 years of 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 the tone and texture of watercolour washes. In this class you will get a chance to develop and...
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$180Limited
inc GST
Urban Sketching Workshop: Pen and Wash with Gauri Torgalkar
In this class, Jayanto will guide you to make your own Sampuru or lunchbox inspired by your culture and the foods that evoke memories. Be inspired by the textures, shapes, colours and designs of a lunch box (real or imaginary) that could have been packed by yourself, your parent or friend, and create a life-size food clay sculpture. Explore the materiality of clay and have fun experimenting in this workshop for all ages and levels of experience. What to expect In this workshop,...
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$80Limited
inc GST
Ceramics | Food and Nostalgia Family Workshop with Jayanto Tan
This is a special Mother's Day Workshop. Enrol 3 or more people in the same family and receive a 10% discount. Children must be at least 5 years old to participate.
Line, an essential element of art, offers limitless possibilities for crafting captivating artworks. It serves various purposes, such as defining form, outlining edges, suggesting movement, and highlighting a light source. Beyond its technical aspects, line plays a crucial role in guiding the viewer's gaze and serves as a powerful means to convey thoughts, ideas, and emotions. In this engaging workshop, we embark on an exploration of the sensational qualities of lines. We'll learn...
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Enrol in 3 or more workshops in the one transaction and receive 10% discount on your fees. Discount applied at the checkout. No further discounts apply. No retrospective discounts.
Course Overview Join Mellissa Read-Devine for this bold and vibrant workshop, where you can paint an image of your favourite bird. Bring along images of birds such as fairy wrens, galahs, parrots or cockatoos and infuse your subject with character and personality. Learn to simplify shapes and keep your colours bold and bright, learn about colour mixing, composition and much more. Mellissa is well-known for her impressionistic style of painting, has been the recipient of many awards...
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$195Limited
inc GST
Acrylic Painting | Beautiful Birds with Mellissa Read-Devine
