TOP 10 DRAWING & PAINTING COURSES IN NEW ZEALAND

This course will offer you easy ways to learn to see, in order to record the world around you. Each term has a different focus. We will cover all the basic art principles (which apply to any subject).

Whether you're new to the medium or a seasoned painter, Robyn’s very experienced approach to painting offers something for everyone to learn. With her gentle encouragement you will to start with drawing before progressing to oils, using art history and contemporary art references to help you find...

Join this class to explore alternative ways of tackling a drawing. Sketching exercises along with traditional studies will allow students to flex creative and observational drawing skills.

These classes will explore the material language of acrylic paint. Emphasis will be on your discovery of mark-making through painterly experimentation and play. Each lesson has a different theme. Classes are suitable for those with previous experience.

Choosing your own subject, media and style, you will create paintings from your own reference, photograph or imagination. 

Explore a range of painting and drawing techniques from ink and watercolor to impasto and realism using acrylic paint. Bring along your own visual diary.

With this pre-trade qualification, you’ll be introduced to preliminary painting and plastering skills, including the requirements for workplace health and safety. You’ll also get to put your new skills to the test in a relevant project using real world product and project specifications.

A career as a painter and decorator is much more varied than you probably realise. At this event you can learn about all it and have a go at something different by getting creative with paint and stencils

Gain pencil drawing skills and shading techniques with local artist Maxine Thompson. Bring what you have, materials are available for purchase on the day.

A good working knowledge of the concepts of perspective will help you draw any subject with correct dimensionality.   It can also help in your realist drawing, painting and invented subjects and environments.