Art For Adults

Adult Term Classes

Do you want to explore the creative process but not sure where to start? Are you a complete beginner or perhaps you have some experience and a desire to develop your art technique further? 

TERM 3

Realism, Impressionism & Beyond!

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Classes are an 8 week Term from 27 July to 19 September 2026

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Realism,

Impressionism

&

Beyond!

27 July to 19 September 2026

^{Classes are pro rata throughout the term so you can join in at anytime!}

Students will learn about Realism, Impressionism and Beyond and how selected artists historically produced their artworks, and how contemporary artists produce their works today.

Fees include ALL tuition & materials

In this 8-week course, you will develop and further understand the creative process and progress your art technique in a fun and supportive environment.

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Free Trial class available (if spots available). Call today or enquire online! 

We will start the Term with a look at REALISM and the art of Courbet and Millet as well as current Australian artists Rachel Milne & Richard Claremont. The first week will explore symbol drawing versus observational drawing using oil pastels. We will attempt to draw an everyday scene; an interior, the laundry pile, the breakfast table. You choose! 

In week 2, it will be a foray into REALISM, LIGHT & MOOD, specifically the art of JMW Turner and JM Whistler. Using soft pastels, students will look at how light and colour can change the mood and feeling of artworks. 
 
Next, it’s all about the art of the IMPRESSIONISTS, looking at how these artists captured light, particularly Claude Monet and Australian artists Arthur Streeton and Elioth Gruner. This week, we will explore mark making like Monet using either watercolour or acrylics. 
 
Then we move into AUSTRALIAN IMPRESSIONISTS, looking at Tom Roberts and Charles Condor, exploring traditional oils on canvas in the “9×5” format. 

Week 5 will see us look at the POST IMPRESSIONISTS and artists such as Van Gogh, Cezanne and Australia’s Grace Cossington Smith. This week we are going to use pallet knives to create textural mark making, like Van Gogh’s swirls and Cossington Smith’s macro pointillism. 

 And finally, we will look at FAUVISM and the start of Modernism, where artists like Matisse, Derain, and later Australia’s Ken Done produced bold works of landscapes, figures and still life in “wild” colours and striking brushwork. In this final week, we will use monoprint techniques TWO ways to create bold, expressive marks and bright colour using a still life for inspiration. 

The final two weeks are spent applying all of the term’s learnings into our own mini masterpieces and body of work time; just like a real life artist! 

A Term of Exploration

Our process based art studio teaching is founded in the Great Art Movements, and each week we explore a different era of Art History and Fine Art Techniques!

We will explore drawing mediums together with collage, mixed media, watercolours, oil painting, acrylic painting and assemblage.  Other techniques will include drawing, as drawing underpins most of our process art techniques. We will also explore a variety of subject matters related to portraiture, landscapes, animals, still life, urban landscapes and the human figure.

Create a Body of Work Masterpiece to take home!

The first 6 weeks are spent learning various techniques while in the last few weeks, you develop your own Realism, Impressionism & Beyond masterpiece based on the choice of techniques we looked at and developed over the course of the term!

All materials, tuition and light refreshments are included.

^{Booking Terms & Conditions}

^{All materials and tuition are included}

^{Students are provided with an apron in class}

^{Each Student receives a Visual Art Diary}

^{Coffee, Tea and Biscuits provided}

^{Art history & a Fine Art lesson each week}

^{Take home a Masterpiece!}