"Anyone can draw if they are given the right instructions.” - Marcel Desbiens, Master Artist and Principal Tutor
Marcel has designed learning pathways to give students structure as they develop from novice to advanced artist.
If you have limited or no experience with Drawing, then we recommend you start with Introduction To Drawing with Annette Raff.
In 2024 we are offer an exciting collection of Life Drawing weekends - one per Term. We start with Annette Raff in February, and then Life Drawing, with Patrick J Jones in May. We round out the series with David Bongiorno in August. All three weekends are aimed at Beginners, but each tutor will bring different styles and techniques to this important art practice.
Throughout the year, Jan Lawnikanis will broaden your drawing techniques and use of materials in a friendly and supportive environment.
Experience the wonderful world of pencil drawing using the portrait as your subject. In this 1 day workshop, Lyn will take you through the basic skills of portrait drawing showing how to gain a good likeness and sculpt the planes of the face. You will work from your own photo reference. Included in your workshop is a FREE video introducing you to the fundamentals of technical know-how valued at $30. Once you have booked in, please log in to your student portal to see the free video...
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Portrait Drawing in Graphite | Lyn Diefenbach
<p>Experience the wonderful world of pencil drawing using the portrait as your subject. In this 1 day workshop, Lyn will take you through the basic skills of portrait drawing showing how to gain a
The foundation of the success of award-winning fantasy and sci-fi artist and author Patrick J Jones, is his finely honed head drawing skills and his belief that understanding gesture is the key to drawing figures with style. In this weekend head-drawing workshop, Patrick will introduce you to the forgotten secrets of the old masters and share his exciting and accessible head drawing methods and formulas developed over decades of presenting Masterclasses. What will I learn? Day one:...
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Join 2017 Archibald prize finalist and nationally recognised realist artist, Andrew Bonneau, for 3 days of portrait and life drawing instruction. Andrew will introduce you to an approach to drawing that has its roots in the European academic tradition. He will give you the tools to approach any subject with confidence and truly extend your knowledge and ability in representational drawing. All aspects of portraiture and life drawing will be discussed and demonstrated. The same...
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The foundation of the success of award-winning fantasy and sci-fi artist and author Patrick J Jones, is his finely honed figure drawing skills and his belief that understanding gesture is the key to drawing figures with style. In this weekend figure-drawing course, Patrick will introduce you to the forgotten secrets of the old masters and share his exciting and accessible figure drawing methods and formulas developed over decades of presenting Masterclasses. What will I learn?...
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Do you find it hard to devote time to your painting practice? Do you get stuck with a painting and don’t know where to take it next? Do you have technical questions about your painting? Are you looking for a group of likeminded artists to paint with? The Studio Painting Practice casual courses provide: uninterrupted time to focus on your own work in a studio setting an expert tutor to help you extend your skills a small group of passionate likeminded artists What will I learn?...
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Learn from Brisbane Portrait Prize finalist, Scott Breton. This workshop condenses the form and figure drawing section of the Form, Gesture, Anatomy Course through a series of carefully designed sequential activities and drills. Many of the key elements from the anatomy section are covered, though we won’t be using sculpture activities due to time constraints. Nonetheless, the complementary access to the online notes will give you full access to the anatomy section. His online...
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Stunning portraits can be created by using a very limited palette of 3 or 4 values. Value deals with the lightness or darkness of a colour. Since we see objects and understand objects because of how dark or light they are, value is incredibly important - it is the key to the illusion of light and form. What will I learn? How to create form by using value relationships, a perfect prep for full colour. Who is this course suitable for? This workshop is suitable for anyone who wants to...
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About this Workshop This is a 1-day event where we take you through all the fundamental aspects of understanding and drawing a picture in perspective. We will assume you have little to no experience with how perspectives work and therefore we start from the beginning. The idea will be to quickly move through some historic examples and simple exercises. The hope will be to develop your understanding for perspective with a series of worked examples (paper and soft pencils – not...
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This 5-week course will involve getting into a daily habit of drawing in the context of a sketchbook. With a simple kit of materials you can carry with you everywhere, you will discover that you can be drawing in all those incidental times and learn that being opportunistic about drawing can help get us into daily creative habits. What will I learn? We will run through different drawing exercises each week and practice our skills in our sketchbooks and on loose sheets of large...
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This 2-day workshop will explore the versatility of pen, ink and watercolour as a fast and fun way to get into a daily drawing habit. What will I learn? In this workshop, we will look at mark making and try different types of ink media in soluble and non soluble with the addition of quick watercolour washes and glazes. We will cover gestural drawing, contour lines, negative space, shading, angles and plumbs in amongst a heap of fun drawing exercises. Our subject matter will include...
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