PAST EVENTS
Create bold, light-filled impressionist paintings with palette knife
with Claire McCall
10.00am to 3.00pm
Wednesday 12 February 2025
All Skill Levels Welcome
Get ready to take your art to the next level with this relaxed and informative studio workshop.
Suitable for oils and acrylic painters. This workshop is best suited to intermediate artists, but it’s not necessary to have palette knife experience.
In this workshop, I will be sharing:
- How I approach composition and the capture of light in my paintings
- My colour palette and how to use a limited palette
- How to use tonal value to create depth and contrast
- How to create looser paintings and incorporate mark-making
- Palette knife techniques
A material list will be sent with course receipt.
Tuition fees
Members - $80
Visitors - $120
2025 Workshops
Italian Impression in Watercolour
with John Orlando Birt
2 day Workshop
10.00am to 4.00pm
Sunday 16 & 23 February 2025
All Skill Levels Welcome
John Orlando Birt, from Twenty Melbourne Painters Society Inc will be conducting a 2 day Watercolour Workshop on Italian Impressions.
John is a celebrated En Plein Air Painter who enjoys the adventure of finding a new locations to paint as well as the challenge of En Plein Air. John has lived in Italy through his work in industrial design and continues to travels there regularly. John has a romantic lens on the Italian landscape.
This workshop is suitable for all skill levels. Topics covered include composition, design, translating a photo reference, tonal structure and colour harmony. This course consists of demonstrations and practice. A photo reference will be supplied, however students are able to bring own reference. A material list will be sent with course receipt. John has expressed that students can BYO colours, however the right paper is important.
Class days and times:
Day 1 February 16 2025 - Sunday 10.00am to 4.00pm
Day 2 February 23 2025 - Sunday 10.00am to 4.00pm
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2 Day Portraiture in Oil Workshop
with Lewis Miller
1.00pm to 5.00pm
Sunday 2 & 9 March 2025
Prior figure/portrait and oil painting experience required
Lewis Miller is a highly regarded Melbourne based portraiture artist. Miller has a long list of awards including the Hugh Ramsay Portrait Prize (1981), the Archibald Prize (1998) as well as being shortlisted 19 times and the Sporting Portrait Prize (2000). Miller’s work is represented in private and public collections in Australia and overseas, including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria, Australian War Memorial, Karolyi Foundation Vence and France Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
Join Lewis for a two-day workshop that consists of demonstration and practice. Participants should have prior experience in figure drawing and painting experience. A suggested material list will be provided on booking. Participants own colour selection is encouraged, however canvas size as per the material list is strongly recommended. Limit of 8, waiting list available. Model fee Incl.
Sunday 1.00 to 5.00pm
Day 1 - March 2
Day 2 - March 9
An Approach to Tonal Realism
with Tim Murphy
Sunday 22nd June & Sunday 29th of June
10am to 4pm
This workshop explores methods inspired by the Australian Tonalists (where patterns of light and dark are favoured over underdrawing) and is intended to give participants a grounding in oil painting based on direct observation.
Held over two consecutive Sundays, day one will focus on techniques for measuring and plotting, observing tonal shapes and establishing a hierarchy of edges. Day two will include a study of colour temperature and how to apply colour according to tonal order.
Participants can expect to gain an understanding of how to approach tonal painting logically, and it is hoped this knowledge can be used as a reference for further studies. The workshop also provides an opportunity to complete a finished work. All skill levels are welcome.
Utilising Information Technology (IT)
in an Artistic Practice
with Richard Impey
All levels welcome
Sunday 17th August 1:30pm - 3:30pm
George Seurat, Paul Signac and Roy Lichtenstein utilised dots to form their art. Information Technology uses dots (Bytes) to further open up communication and art.
In this presentation Richard Impey will explore the application of Information Technology in the creation, development and presentation of art.
Digital technology lets you generate high-calibre artwork at a blistering pace using a robust layer’s system, stunning filters, and thousands of importable brushes. A must have for serious artists and enthusiasts alike’. Digital software like Procreate, Adobe Fresco, Corel Painter, Kitra and Sketchbook can be used to sketch ideas, create designs and produce finished artwork. Richard frequently reinterprets his Procreate art using different media such as printing and oil painting. He finds Procreate to be an essential resource for his art and his art practice as it is so easy to use, flexible and transportable.
Information Technology also provides increased opportunity to present, duplicate, distribute and sell art to the wider community. Outlets like Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter provide a link to other artist work and an opportunity to distribute artists work to others. Richard will discuss how this assists him in his artistic activities.
In this presentation Richard will show how IT is integrated into his art practice.
Digital Drawing & Painting Shortcourse
with Richard Impey
4 Week Short Course - 29 August to 19 September
Fridays 1.30pm to 3.30pm
There is a growing interest in Digital Drawing and Painting.
This course will focus on generating art works using Procreate and preparing them for professional printing and posting on Instagram.
It will focus on individual projects generated by the student.
General themes and alternate methods of artistic presentation will also be illustrated during the course.
In particular, this short course will provide an opportunity for artists to improve their skills in Digital Drawing and Painting by:
• Investigate the use of brushes for line work, adding shading and working with textures. ·
• Select colours, manipulating tints and shades and creating your own colour palettes for specific images. ·
• Work with multiple layers, merge layers, change opacity levels, make selections, masks and applying special effects. ·
• Import and work with your own watercolour backgrounds, pencil sketches and photographs.
• Setup specific canvas sizes, learn to use helpful naming conventions and use cloud storage. • Prepare your completed images for electronic publishing on Instagram and Facebook. ·
• Prepare and export your images for professionally printing.
Note: If you are unsure about installing or upgrading Procreate on your IPad, you might like to go to an Apple store for help prior to the course. The Apple staff are fantastic. You will need to book.
Materials iPad (Fully charged) Apple pencil Latest version of Procreate installed on your iPad iPad charging connector Drawing paper, pencils and pens
Friday 1.30pm to 3.30pm 4 Weeks – 29 August, 5, 12, 19 September
Book here: https://www.trybooking.com/CZWVI Members $90 Non Members $100 10 Spots
The Art of The Pencil
with Roger Clarke
All levels welcome
4 Week Short Course - 21st July to 11 August
Monday 1.30pm to 3.30pm
Drawing in pencil – a new program for the New Year. Roger Clarke (long time BAS member) introduces The Art of the Pencil. In this four week program we learn how create highly realistic drawings and get good portrait likeness. How fine detail can add realism. You will work at your own pace on subjects of your choice such as still life, landscape and portraits as you add interesting pencil techniques to your work.
