Unlock Your Creative Genius

8-week course

All courses will commence in the week of Monday 10th February 2025. There will be morning (9:30 to 11:30am), evening (6-8pm) and hopefully Saturday morning (9:30 to 11:30am) classes. To express your interest in joining one of our 8-week courses, simply add your name and preferred day and time in the contact section of this website.

Price

Adult: $280pp

If continuing on from 5-week course add $105

About

This was the original course Helen created back in 2004. Not only do you learn the 5 essential skills required to be able to draw well, but you are also given instruction on how to draw portraiture in profile and 3/4 views, as well as gaining an understanding about colour and exploring your imagination.

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.

Week 6: Profile

Now that you have all the skills you need to be able to draw, it’s time to learn a few more rules for drawing portraits. In this lesson you are given all the rules for drawing the face in profile and 3/4 views. You will also learn a new skill that is ‘The mark of a trained artist’

Week 7: Colour

In this lesson students begin to explore the use of colour. This takes us right back to basics. The aim of this lesson is to set in your mind, the structure of colour. With the use of a colour wheel, you will understand primary, secondary and tertiary colours as well as contrasting and harmonious colours.

Lesson 8: Imagination

For some people, using the imagination can be very daunting but our imagination is one of those mysterious tools which was given to us. Using your imagination can be useful to help you relax, solve problems, brainstorm amongst many other reasons. 

Materials List for full 8-week course or purchase a RIGHT BRAIN GENIUS ART PACK for only $30

If you are continuing on from the 5-week course, you will only need to purchase a set of colour or watercolour pencils. I do not include these in the ART PACK as this is very much personal preference.

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

Colour or watercolour pencils

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