SPRING HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS 2024

Come step inside the Gallery and let creativity BLOOM as the days get warmer and we draw our way toward Summer.

As SPRING arrives, it’s time to have some colourful, Fabulous, Fluorescent FUN, time to explore the wonder of Flower Power and also time to sit back, look around at all this sensational season has to offer, and make a Mini Book of Spring! Let's also take the time to enjoy some Amazing, Flipping, Leaping, Animals and finish the week visualising the internal world of created characters as we GO FIGURE!

Fabulous, Fluorescent FUN

In this Workshop we will step into a world of extreme COLOUR, a world of Fluorescent FUN, a world where crazy cats chase kaleidoscopic fish, surrounded by blindingly bright birds and iridescent insects. We’ll look at lots of fabulous forms, playing with magical materials & crazy colours, to produce a drawing that screams at viewers to ‘grab some shades & take a surreal trip into the very brightest realms of the colour spectrum’ … ouch..

Ages 5+

Monday 30th Sept 10:00 - 4:00

Flower Power

How wonderful that we get to experience the Power of Flowers when Spring has sprung! Patches of new green foliage & colour popping up everywhere we look guiding us to see gardens, trees & plants we may never have noticed before (well maybe not since last Spring). In this Workshop we’ll play, explore & experiment with colour and ways of drawing floral forms, celebrating this sensational season, by building a blossoming bouquet of brilliant blooms on paper. A still life that will be anything but unmoving.

Ages 5+

Tuesday 1st Oct 10:00 - 4:00

A Mini Book of Spring

I LOVE COLLAGE! For me collage is a wonderful way to try new things, a wonderful way to layer & change a picture, a wonderful way to create before commitment. To fit in as much collage as we can in one day we’re going MINI! Small samples of scene telling stories to celebrate Spring, which will, before long, become a beautiful book showcasing the bounties of this blooming season. We’ll be playing with all sorts of paper, drawing into, over & on top, layering forms & figures & foliage depending on what way you like to celebrate the warmer weather creeping into our days.

Ages 5+

Wednesday 2nd Oct 10:00 - 4:00

Amazing, Flipping, Leaping Animals

It’s no secret that the three panelled ‘flip book’ is one of my favourite formats to use when drawing animals. Why? Well simply because you get to create some pretty crazy critter combinations with just the flip of a panel. In this Workshop we’ll be focusing on animals that JUMP just to add to the chaos & to maybe introduce us to a few fascinating facts about the animal kingdom while we’re at it. Like, did you know that gazelles can leap more than 10 feet into the air, or that the Australian rocket frog can leap over 50 times its body length (two inches) resulting in jumps of close to seven feet? By the end of this workshop not only will you be jumping for joy, you’ll have created a whole new category of flipping fun drawing!

Ages 5+

Thursday 3rd Oct 10:00 - 4:00

GO FIGURE!

This isn’t just a Figure Drawing Workshop, it’s a Figure Drawing Workshop with a revealing difference. A Workshop that will explore & draw what lies (or lurks) inside, interior worlds that tell a very different story than what appears on the outside. Once we look at some different ways of developing & drawing our characters, we’ll create an internal visual tale to tell the viewer something about the life, experiences, hopes, dreams or simple realities of that character. Using different layering techniques, we’ll play our way through a figurative narrative by exploring how we read what we see and draw to be read.

This Workshop is specifically designed for older kids and is the perfect way to experiment with different types of drawing & drawing mediums.

Ages 10+

Friday 4th Oct 10:00 - 4:00