Unlock Your Creative Genius
5 Week Course
2025 FREE PRESENTATIONS
Helen Joy will be holding FREE Presentations in Yeppoon during the first two weeks of term 1 of the school year. This will be between Monday 27th January and Saturday 8th February. (no Sunday sessions). The sessions will be held mornings 9:30 to 11:30 or evenings 6-8pm. Helen is currently working on locking in dates and venues and will update the website once done.
To express your interest in joining one of our presentations, simply add your name and preferred day and time in the contact section of this website.
5-week course
Adult: $175 Plus materials (see below for details)
This is the first 5 weeks of the 8-week course
All courses will commence in the week of Monday 10th February 2025. There will be mornings (9:30 to 11:30am), evenings (6-8pm) and hopefully Saturday mornings (9:30 to 11:30am) classes. To express your interest in joining one of our 5-week courses, simply add your name and preferred day and time in the contact section of this website.
About
This is the first 5-weeks of the 8-week course Helen created back in 2004. In this more affordable course, you will learn the 5 essential skills required to be able to draw well.
5-Week Course Outline
Week 1: Introduction
In our first week, students are given an exercise that will help them identify the symbols that their left-brain created many years ago. We then delve into two more exercises that force the left-brain to quieten and allows the right brain to step in and do what it does best!
Week 2: Edges
In week two, students undertake an exercise that helps to describe our artistic development and the impact that development has had on our current creative ability. They are then given an exercise to help them make the shift from left mode to right mode and begin to grasp the characteristics of working in right mode.
Week 3: Space
Week three introduces students to space through two new exercises that further forces the left brain to quieten, allowing the right brain to do its work. In this lesson students work with charcoal and are provided with an apron.
Week 4: Relationships
Now that students have learned to not let their left brain control their creativity, week four sees us bring that left brain back into the equation. But we just got it to quieten? We need both the left and the right brain to learn about perspective and relationships.
Week 5: Gestalt (whole)
In week five it’s time to look at light and shadow and bring everything together. In this lesson students learn the rules to draw a full face in proportion using all the skills they have learned up until this point.
MATERIALS
You can either purchase your own materials for the course from the list below or purchase a RIGHT BRAIN GENIUS ART PACK for and an extra $30
Please note the 5 or 8-week ART PACK does not include an apron or old shirt
5-week course
1 x good quality sketch pad with good tooth
1 x 4b lead pencil
1 x 6b Lead pencil
1 x ruler
1 x eraser
1 x hand mirror (be able to see whole face)
1 x Charcoal block
1 x Charcoal pencil
1 x Blending tool
1 x Viewfinder
1 x whiteboard marker
an old shirt or apron