Art Workshops & Classes

Train in all fundamental skills first, because you cannot add what you don't know but leave what you do

Every person can learn to draw and paint, honestly every person. To start well, however, it is essential to begin with a solid fundamental base of realistic drawing and painting skills. Classes are structured so that even total beginners feel comfortable. Our training sessions are designed to be easy to comprehend and to offer a wealth of worthwhile content.

You can dismiss what you have learned, but you cannot add skills you don't have. Everyone can learn to draw and paint. No matter how humble your beginnings, with high-quality instructions and plenty of support while learning, you will improve significantly.
There are NO further classes of mine than those listed here!!

Martina's Workshops

$150

Intro Drawing Workshop

Saturday 30th September 2023,   9.30 am - 3.30 pm
This workshop is for people who want to learn critical fundamental drawing skills needed to understand what creates a good drawing. Most of these principles apply to both drawing and painting. You will learn about line contour variation, how to measure correctly like an artist, in-depth-shading methods and the most common mistakes made in drawing. For absolute beginners & intermediates. 
 On Special $95
including materials

Colour Mixing Workshop

Saturday 7th October 2023,  ​9.30 pm - 2.30 pm
This workshop is for anyone who feels insecure in mixing colour.  Colour knowledge is essential for everyone who paints and once learned a life-time investment. It is astonishing how easily colour can be understood if you have the right information to start with. You will learn to mix any colour with basically just 6 colours plus white and how to keep colours clean, vibrant or to dull and darken a colour naturally. 
$150

Portrait Drawing Workshop

Saturday 18th November 2023,   ​​9.30 am - 2.30 pm
In this workshop, you will learn how to avoid the most common mistakes made by beginners when drawing facial features. Y​ou will get to understand how to effectively capture a person's likeness, what pencils and techniques to use for drawing portraits.

​We will go through each part of the face step-by-step. 
$150

Colour Pencil Workshop

TBA Saturday  9.30am - 3.00pm
Suitable for every skill level, including beginners. In this workshop, we will go through the whole process of a drawing of a lily. Through this step-by-step approach, you will gain an understanding of the complete process from start to finish of a luscious colour pencil work. For materials you will need to bring check my Website under “Art Material Lists.”

Martina's Weekly Art Class

All Media
​Tuesday Class

Tuesdays 19th September - 17th October 2023 
5 lessons
10 am - 12.30 pm
For both Beginners & Intermediates
BOOKED OUT
If you are a complete beginner, I will walk you through the fundamentals of sketching and painting while customising the sessions to meet your individual needs. For those who have done some basic training, you can pick your subjects, media, and styles, and I will guide you through the process of your own choices. 

Once enrolled, you are free to stay as long as you want. You choose what you want to do, and I assist you in achieving it. All you need to bring are your personal painting supplies, such as brushes and paints. We supply easels.

If places become available, they will be published a couple of weeks before commencement. These all media classes usually run over the course of 5 weeks followed by a two-week break. Tuition is given in drawing with pencils, colour pencils, painting in oil or watercolour. I am specialised in realistic and portrait painting, as well as commercial illustration. 
$150

Oil Painting
Introduction Course

Thursdays 5th October - 26th October 2023
4 lessons
​10am - 12.30pm

For Beginners
BOOKED OUT
This four part course has been developed to ease students into the process of oil painting. Working with oil is simpler than many believe, as long as you learn the fundamentals.

​Oil is one of the few mediums which provide you with enough time to mix, modify and adjust easily.

You will start off with a simple exercise of a tonal study and learn how to evenly blend colours. Then we progress to a step-by-step approach to create a classical oil painting starting with a monochromatic (one colour) under painting. This process makes it easier to focus on tonal values, shades and proportions without the challenge of mixing colour simultaneously, which can be quickly overwhelming. The following week you begin the colour layers to finalise the painting. 

This course will teach you many tricks how to get the fastest and easiest results for a classical painting. 
$150

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