Cost $130 per student. Workshops run from 9am til 4pm and are held subject to numbers (minimum of 5 students required), a deposit of $30 is required to confirm your attendance.
- Workshop 1 Friday 22nd February
- 'Palette Knife 1' (oils and acrylics) – Steve will guide you through an impasto painting created with palette / painting knives. You will learn techniques of mixing, application, wet-in-wet painting, and freeing up your style to create a loose, painterly picture full of movement and vibrancy.
- Workshop 2 Friday 29th March
- 'Drawing' (pencil and charcoal) – The ability to draw is essential to any realistic painting, it is the basis of all figurative (recognisable) art. Even if you do not intend to draw on the canvas, the ability to draw must be inherent. Steve will guide you through various drawing exercises to improve your artistic observational skills and how to translate what we see into lively marks on paper.
- Workshop 3 Friday 31st May
- 'Pastels' A medium in between drawing and painting, pastels are the closest thing to pure pigment you can paint / draw with. Steve will introduce you to this most immediate and 'hands on' of mediums, discuss the types of supports (papers) that can be used and guide you through the various techniques to finish a picture.
- Workshop 4 Friday 28th June
- 'Mixed Media' (a variety of mediums will be used) – Harnessing the advantages of various media in a single work can free up the way we create art. In this workshop Steve will introduce you to a number of ideas and techniques in combining different painting media to create individual and lively pieces.
- Workshop 5 Friday 26th July
- 'Palette Knife 2' (oils or acrylics) – The second palette knife workshop for the year. Building on the first workshop Steve will guide you through an impasto painting created with palette / painting knives. You will develop further techniques of mixing, application, wet-in-wet painting, and freeing up your style to create a loose, painterly picture full of movement and vibrancy.
- Workshop 6 Friday 25th October
- 'Layering Acrylics'(acrylics) – Acrylics are a fast drying exciting medium. In this workshop Steve will guide you through a painting by creating several layers of fast drying paint, starting quite abstract and gradually working towards an image, using various techniques to build up the painting through the day.
- Workshop 7 Friday 29th November
- 'Painting Flowers' A colourful and popular subject, flowers have been painted for centuries. Steve will guide you through a contemporary approach to capturing a floral subject in a fun and loose painting style.
Steve has been drawing and painting from childhood and has been a professional artist since 2002 with successful solo and group exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney and the Gold Coast and is currently represented by Anthea Polson Art Gallery on the Gold Coast.
Steve is a much sought after teacher with a handful of eagerly anticipated full-day workshops throughout the year, he teaches all styles and techniques in both oils and acrylics while his own work is easily recognised by the painterly use of thick oils executed with a palette knife
He is an award winning artist and has been a finalist in numerous prestigious art prizes including the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award (EMSLA) 2012, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, QLD Figurative art Prize (Commended) 2014, The Border Art Prize (Highly commended) 2015 & 2007, Doug Moran Portrait Prize (semi finalist) 2012, Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2012, 2011, Redland Art Prize 2010, Fleurieu Water Prize 2011, Tattersalls Club Landscape Prize 2009, Stan & Maureen Duke Prize 2011, Norvill Art Prize 2006. His paintings are held in many private collections all over the world and public collections including the Gold Coast City Art Gallery.
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