Collection: Short Courses

Are you eager to move from being an arts enthusiast to becoming a practising, exhibiting and sustainable artist, but overwhelmed by the challenges?

Learn what it takes to become a professional artist and be introduced to the challenges and exciting opportunities of the art world.  Gain an overview of how to research, plan and understand the personal investment in time, money, planning, energy and creativity it requires to survive in the arts.

Learn about the fundamental principles of colour-mixing and discover how colours change and move in a picture plane. Tonee Messiah introduces painting approaches from modernist abstraction to the present day and shows how painters approach the translation of subject matter using colour as a powerful expressive tool and emotive agent. 

Learn how to paint expressive, contemporary watercolour paintings with structured classes around specific themes, practical exercises, demonstrations and interactions with a lecturer in a live (online) studio environment. Discover the thrills of colour mixing, palette organisation, compositional ideas, pigments and different mark-making techniques. Experiment with different watercolour papers and work towards sustained finished artworks.

Ignite your understanding and enjoyment of watercolour drawing and painting by learning traditional methods and contemporary mark-making techniques. Learn to paint the colours of changing light and to capture its beauty with transparent watercolour painting methods, both in the studio and at outdoor locations.

Do you want to learn to draw in a way that’s responsive to the unique qualities of your subject? and to the expressive effect of your drawing’s abstract elements? Discover how to draw with graphite pencils, chalk and ink from subjects such as the still life, the life model and on-location at the historic NAS campus

A 4-day Residential Art Camp at Mystery Bay. Capture the richness of colour, light and atmosphere in the medium of oil painting at beautiful Mystery Bay on the south coast of NSW.

With unlimited access to pristine beaches, rocky outcrops, mountains, flora and fauna, this lush countryside will delight your senses and invigorate your paintings. Accommodation and catering costs are additional to course fee.