Our courses for kids aged 5 to 12 years are structured for different age groups and stages. Kids learn about artists, art history and art genres while being in a relaxed and nurturing environment. While many of our young students come for fun, some use their Art Est portfolio to enter selective creative high schools.
Enrolments are now open for Term 1 courses, 2024. Running from 1 February – 27 March, there are a range 8-week courses on offer.
Our courses for kids aged 5 to 12 years are structured for different age groups and stages. Kids learn about artists, art history and art genres while being in a relaxed and nurturing environment. While many of our young students come for fun, some use their Art Est portfolio to enter selective creative high schools.
We are currently in Term 4. Late enrolments are welcome, where you can join a class that has already started at a reduced cost (the discount is applied automatically at check out).
Our next Term program is Term 1. Key dates for next term are below:
Priority Enrolment: 11 Dec (current students have early access to re-enrol)
Early Bird Enrolment: opens 12 Dec (classes are open to everyone)
Program dates: 1 Feb – 27 March
Terms
2024 Summer Art School: 3-14 January, weekends 21/22, 27/28 January + 3/4 February Term 1 2024: 1 February – 27 March Term 2 2024: 6 May – 1 July (*no classes Kings Birthday holiday Monday 10 June, make up class is Monday 1 July) Term 3 2024: 29 July – 22 September Term 4 2024: 21 October – 15 December
Note that we offer a Priority Enrolment Period for current students to reenrol in their term class one week before we open Earlybird Enrolments to new students.
Public holidays
Easter weekend: 29 March-1 April Anzac Day: 25 April Kings Birthday: Monday 10 June October Long Weekend: Monday 7 October
This class is inspired by Belynda Henry an Australian artist from NSW who lives on a country property surrounded by a National Park which gives her plenty of inspiration for her abstract landscapes. She uses paints and pastels, brushes and palette knives to create shapes and textures of the natural environment. What will students take home? A beautiful artwork on canvas of your interpretation of an Abstract Patterned Landscape. School Holiday Information More Information FAQs...
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Inspired by the art of cubist painter Pablo Picasso, students make their own Picasso Plate. Learn hand-building techniques to create a decorative plate with a cubist style portrait, then paint it in bold colours with underglazes. What will students make? A ceramic plate that will be fired in our kilns and ready to collect about 3 weeks after the workshop.. 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...
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This class takes inspiration from the high-key paintings of artist So Youn Lee, with their instantly recognisable style and gummy lolly characters. Students will learn how to create their own character inspired by this style, and how to mix a pastel palette using bright pastels and fluoro acrylics on canvas. What will students make? A painting on canvas using bright pastels and flouro acrylic paint. School Holiday Information More Information FAQs Terms & ConditionsSpecial Offers
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Students will learn to paint thick, dimensional and textured canvases using impasto and acrylic paints. We will be inspired by the colours of wildflowers and rose gardens, creating a subtly wallpaper-like effect with our compositions. Students will be encouraged to paint with palette knives to help get their paint popping off the canvas! What will students take home? A fabulous finished acrylic painting on canvas. Images used for the course decription are for inspiration and not...
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This class is inspired by the work of Australian artist Cressida Campbell who's painting has a vista looking 'Through the Windscreen'. Students will learn drawing techniques to create an illustrated frame around their page. What do you see outside your car window? Is it your favourite beach, a beautiful park, the sparkling harbour or something you imagine like out of space? Make your artwork using watercolour pencils, pastels, crayons and other mixed media. Experiment with colour...
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Here we create a colourful and creative self-portrait that is whimsical and fun. T Learn to draw your facial features, and add patterned collage papers and posca paint pens to make it stand out. What will students take home? A beautifully finished collage work of your self-portrait on card stock. School Holiday Information More Information FAQs Terms & ConditionsSpecial Offers
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