Drawing and Painting
Whether you are experienced or a novice you are welcome in one of our practical art classes. Paint with a brush, draw with chalk or a pencil, write calligraphy with a pen or print in linocut. We have every art form to suit you from acrylics to watercolours to pastels and from still life to portraits and landscapes. Come to WEA and explore the artist in you.
Available Classes
Still Life and the Art of Composition
<p>An understanding of composition is essential for anyone wishing to compose an image that both functions visually as a whole and that captivates an audience. We will apply a visual analysis of the
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Animal Comparative Anatomy and Composition
<p>Explore the works of renowned Italian animal painters, Jacopo Bassano and Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Learn how to draw and compose animals in a work of art. Gain a knowledge of the anatomy of
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Oil Painting for Beginners to Intermediate / Life Model for Advanced Students
<p>Contrary to popular myth, oil painting – much like drawing and watercolour - is a medium that anyone can gain proficiency at. Gain confidence by being initially introduced to a very limited number
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Stepping into Leonardo da Vinci's Shoes - Drawing Human Cadavers at the UNSW
<p>Via an empirical analysis of donor cadavers, learn how artist-anatomists of the late 15th and 16th centuries - such as Leonardo of Vinci - pioneered a new found applied knowledge of the human body,
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