Rachael King
Create Your Own Surface Pattern Design
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Mon 04 Mar 6PM - 8.30PM
Every single person has the ability to create art and under the guidance of a skilled and attentive teacher, your talent can flourish.
Master Artist Marcel Desbiens has years of experience teaching students to find their own artistic voice and to gain and strengthen their technical skills. Hear what past and current students say about us.
Learn from award-winning local, interstate and international guest artists who offer courses and workshops for all skill levels in Oil colours, Acrylic, Watercolour, Drawing and Pastels in various specialty subjects. We also offer private lessons for intensive training in any technical area you need.
And all this, in the comfort of our purpose-built air-conditioned art studios.
Having already nurtured the development of over 15,000 new artists, Bienarté is offering a series of
Life Drawing Workshops throughout 2024.
Day 1: Come and explore the wonderful qualities of watercolour, mark-making and ink.
Be inspired by beautiful natives such as Banksias and paint from life with award winning artist, Libby Derham.
Working with artist-quality materials and the rich colours of Daniel Smith paints, you will learn skills to loosen up representational and expressive watercolour painting on paper.
Day 1 will build a collection of marks and sketches, developing you looser style, in preparation for Day 2.
Day 2: After building the foundation and familiarity of the subject and looser painting style on Day 1, Day 2 teaches skills of selection and composition from preparatory work, identifying and building of tone and working on dual paintings.
You will step across from smooth paper substrates to the ultrasmooth surface of Clayboard, learning new possibilities of this intriguing material.
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Suitable for absolute beginners, but people with some previous experience in watercolour will also get a lot out of working with Clayboard.
Ampersand Claybord 8" x 8" Your choice of thickness.
Please bring a collection of fresh or dry flowers, natives or plant material to draw from.
HB or 2B pencil
Fabriano Studio Watercolour pad (25% cotton)- 300 gsm Smooth (hot press)- White A3
Paper towel, masking tape (Bear 24mm x 50m washi from Bunnings is good)
You are welcome to bring some Banksias and Natives to the workshop
Libby will supply:
Paints - made up palettes of Daniel Smith Watercolours @ $10 for 2 days workshop per student
Colours Included: Buff Titanium, Hansa Yellow Medium, Quinacridone Gold, Pyrrol Scarlet, Pyrrol Crimson, Quinacridone Rose, Imperial Purple, Ultramarine, Cerulean Blue Chromium, Phthalo Blue (Green Shade), Phthalo Green (Blue Shade), Undersea Green, Sap Green, Yellow Ochre, Goethite (Brown Ochre), Burnt Sienna, Tiger's Eye, Indian Red, Raw Umber, Payne's Gray
Sticks
Art Spectrum Ink - in small dropper bottles
Plastic pipettes
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Bienarté will supply:
Mop brushes - large for washes, small for detail
Spray bottles of water
Waterpots
Protection for tables
A3 Clipboards
Please bring your lunch and snacks or you can purchase from cafes close by. We do have a fridge at the studio for your convenience.
An award-winning artist, Libby is a fourth-generation water-colourist, passionate at pushing the medium into the contemporary space. She won the Annie Tan Memorial Watercolour Award - Queensland Regional Art Awards (2021) and has been a finalist in multiple local and national awards including Splash: McClelland Contemporary Watercolour Award (2021), QRAA (2020), Local Artist Local Content (2023/2022/2021/2020) and Du Rietz Art Awards (2021/2020).
Join Brisbane artist Rachael King for 2 hours of fun painting a colourful floral bouquet in watercolour.
Rachael will take you through the steps to creating your own masterpiece! this will be a fun session where you will create the impression of a floral bouquet - no experience is necessary as this is all about having fun and making marks with watercolour!
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Everyone is welcome! No experience necessary.
Use of all materials will be available.
Rachael King is a Brisbane Surface Pattern Designer and Author of Pattern Pulse. Rachael uses analogue and digital techniques to bring her watercolour artwork into designs that are licensed to companies such Spotlight, Annabel Trends and John Sands Greeting Cards.
Daniel Butterworth is a professional Australian artist with a highly successful career spanning over twenty years. He has exhibited extensively and won numerous awards.
Daniel has been a Finalist in the Doug Moran Prize and Archibald Prize.
Take this unique opportunity to learn a range of new techniques and gain insight into the loose painterly approach with Daniel.
In this engaging two-day workshop, Daniel will share with you his tips on materials, mediums, scale and light.
Through demonstrations and one-on-one feedback, Daniel will guide you as you create the work of your choice - landscape, portrait or still life - on cardboard!
In this weekend workshop, you will discover the power of composition and the effect it can have on a work. Daniel will show you how to reflect on your subject and look at ways of amplifying the use of light.
You will develop at least one painting, more strikingly vital and direct than you have produced before!
Throughout the workshop, you will be encouraged to draw on your own creative voice, with a final critique at the end of the day.
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This workshop is suitable for beginners through to experienced.
• At least three images of either the landscapes, or portraits or still life that you would like to paint - ideally on an ipad, tablet or phone
• 4B and 2B grey lead perncils
• Black marker
• Charcoal (willow or compressed)
• 3 sheets of A1 paper
• 3 pieces of cardboard in varied sizes. This could be recycled packing cardboard - the bigger the better as we can cut it down on the day. White goods suppliers have great cardboard as well as motorcycle shops
• Acrylic paint in warm primary colours and in black and white
• Palette
• Water tub
• Brushes: Numbers 1 to 14 (preferably synthetic) and 11inch flat (synthetic).
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• Tea, coffee and biscuits (bring your own cup)
• A friendly, supportive and encouraging learning environment
• Connection to the Bienarté art community
Add colour to your day or night with this unique paint and sip style watercolour session, in which you supply your drink of choice and we supply the rest! We have tea and coffee on-site for the drivers! This casual, relaxed class is perfect for absolute beginners, as no prior painting experience is needed.
During the session, you’ll have the opportunity to experiment with watercolour paints in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere while creating your own unique framed artwork to take home with you.
You will learn the basics of painting in watercolour. You will be guided with a demonstration of painting in watercolour. You will have a selection of different scenes to paint on the night. You can follow a template to get you started or you can be as creative as you wish!
Anyone who wants to have fun experimenting with watercolours. If you’ve never painted before, this is the perfect, relaxed opportunity to give it a try.
Whatever you would like to sip while you paint. You are welcome to bring your own nibbles.
5* We had such a lovely girls night and even though none of us has ever painted in watercolours before, we had a lovely instructor and a heap of stencils to use before we were confident enough to do some freestyling. -Meghan-
5* The class was very well run with good instruction and plenty of help if needed. All the necessary equipment was provided and all 3 teachers were friendly and encouraging. Would definitely do another class - we had a lot of fun! -Alex-
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