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
Kids will be inspired by Monet's wonderful paintings of garden landscapes and use beautiful acrylic colours and waxy crayons to create a magical garden on a canvas as they look into the world of French Impressionist artist Claude Monet. What will students take home? A completed artwork on canvas. School Holiday Information More Information FAQs Terms & ConditionsSpecial Offers
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Who doesn't love a cute fluffy owl? Learn how to use Chalk pastels to create a line, shape, colour, and texture in your owl portraits. Capture the essence of this wonderful bird in your drawing. What will students take home? A few sketches and a full drawing of an owl on quality pastel paper. School Holiday Information More Information FAQs Terms & ConditionsSpecial Offers
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Explore extraordinary emus in this workshop inspired by big birds of the Australian Outback! Learn to draw the striking features of these native birds - eyes that boggle; feathers that ruffle; beaks that bop! Make your emu colour or realistic - it really doesn't matter. Just learn how to draw and get creative with colour in chalk pastels, try blending techniques and shading to make your artwork pop! What will students take home? A portrait drawing on pastel paper of a fabulous...
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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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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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Calling all young artists and Llama Lovers! Time to create your very own Llama artwork. In this class you will paint a cute llama on canvas and experiment with colourful acrylic paint. Image: CreativeJewishmom What will students take home? A beautiful acrylic masterpiece on canvas fit to take home and hang right away! School Holiday Information More Information FAQs Terms & ConditionsSpecial Offers
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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 specialised illustration workshop is for young artists who are fascinated by dark science fiction. This particular workshop will be focusing on dystopian worlds similar to the Warhammer 40k universe. Guided by professional illustrator Sam McNair the young artists will learn how to draw step by step some elements from these universes and be prompted to design their own characters, vehicles and scenes within these worlds. What will students take home? A sketchbook with their...
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Make some bright little plates out of clay and paint them with colourful underglazes. Learn basic clay handbuilding techniques to maket the shape, choose your colour-scheme, add a face and bingo! Cute little bird plates are made. Designed for young creators, this hands-on workshop encourages exploration and self-expression through the tactile world of clay. Students unleash their imagination, learning the fundamentals of hand-building techniques to mould unique sculptures. From...
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