Carla Murray, one of MAC’s former students, is among 12 other Melbourne Polytechnic Visual Arts Painting graduates exhibiting their entire year’s work this month. The group exhibition, entitled Introspectives, is...
Saturday morning painting classes recommenced two weeks ago, and the work being produced by our early-morning artists is phenomenal. Marco will be teaching us a variety of different painting techniques...
1. Life drawing helps improve your fundamental drawing skills Drawing the figure demands a lot of an artist as the anatomical and structural complexity of the figure is difficult to...
Earlier in September I attended MAC’s first Wedding Flower Workshop with florist Carolyn Howells. My previous experience with flowers was only limited to painting them so I did not know...
AFL Grand Final fever has engulfed Melbourne once again, and the mention of a Sherrin football is the last thing you may relate to artwork. However, one of our former...
David Palliser’s exhibition ‘send nurse’, opened at Chapman and Bailey in Melbourne last night with this work being a highlight. The exhibition continues David’s exploration of gesture, tone, colour and...
We are pleased to announce Graeme Drendel’s latest exhibition, Surrender. MAC has been fortunate to have Graeme speak at a number of our art classes about his previous works, and...
The first of our series of Wedding Floral Design workshops will be run on Saturday September 13th. It will focus upon roses and participants will be working with: Round, natural...
This is a Still Life that we have used for working with tone in our drawing course. Yes, the fruit and vegetables you see are real and have been hand painted....
MAC Drawing tutor, Jesse Dayan will be exhibiting at C3 Contemporary Art Space with Adrian and Daniel Stojkovich. The exhibition entitled, ‘Where Were You? All Things’, features reproduced images from...
Tony Irving will be speaking at Enderby Studio Art Program next Tuesday. A Melbourne-based artist, Tony’s figurative work often originates from everyday life and contains playful narrative nuances. The work demonstrates a mastery...
Minimalist Floral Design by Carolyn Howells, 2013 Our next Floral Design course will be an introductory short course running over 4 x 2.5 hour sessions on Saturday afternoons. They will...
With a full Studio Art Program during recent terms, we have decided to start a new program which is similar in format but with a focus on painting. Our new...
Our guest artist speaking at Enderby Studio Art Program this week is Andrea Smith. Trained in the academic tradition in Florence, Andrea Smith fuses classical technique, sensitive use of tone and a subtle play of...
We are now taking enrolments for our Drawing course beginning on Thursday March 6th. This is a great course for beginners, allowing you to draw still lifes and costumed models under...
As part of her painting studies in our Studio Art Program, Jo Wellington completed this wonderful copy of a part of Eugene Delacroix’s, The Orphan Girl at the Cemetery, 1823-1824....
“Despite its status as the presumed art commodity par excellence, painting has regained new conceptual force. This lecture will argue that part of the reason for this is painting’s singular...