Mid-2018, I underwent a massive “shift in consciousness”. It was like my mind expanded exponentially between May and August. I began perceiving both myself and the universe in an entirely...
Former Head of Drawing VCA A brief perspective from a past student, colleague, and friend. Pam Hallandal was committed to, and passionate about drawing. She regarded it as an important...
Google recently revealed the top ten “how to” searches of all time, and “how to draw” made it in at number 5. When you ask Google “how to draw”, the...
Another Introductory Sketching Course has just drawn to a close, and the students are extremely pleased with their results! During the first of six lessons with Hilmi Baskurt, students are...
Hilmi ran our first workshop for the year – a Drawing Workshop using Ink and Shellac. It was a marathon workshop, where students created a still life, beginning with charcoal,...
We have been asked for a long time now, when will we be holding art classes during the day?! Well, we are excited to announce we will be running two...
Last Saturday we held a Drawing Workshop using Ink and Shellac with Hilmi; we were very excited because it was our first of this sort and it proved to be...
Over the ANZAC Day weekend we ran a small Drawing Intensive Workshop. Small because we had a smaller number of enrolments – however the result was an intimate workshop where Hilmi...
Drawing and Painting Student, and Guest Blogger Ivana, inspires us with her newly-found dedication to agreeing to pay attention to the act of seeing. A little while ago a post...
Artist Hilmi Baskurt’s Drawing Courses explore the four elements of sketching – the structural sketch or basic line drawing; value sketching (light and dark); chiaroscuro (black and white) and contour...
We are extremely fortunate to have artist Irene Ferguson in our rank of professional artists/teachers here at Melbourne Art Class! Irene is currently teaching our popular six-week General Drawing Course,...
Ivana’s inspiring experience during our Summer School Ivana was one of a few students who undertook the challenge of completing both our Painting and Drawing Masterclasses in-between Christmas and New...
Marco Corsini’s Studio Art is a term-based course and has tended to be an eclectic fusion of talks and presentations by Marco (about four or five per term), guest speakers...
Still Life – a collection of inanimate objects – does not inspire everyone, and after drawing the same curved vase ten times, beginners often want to move on to “more...
We are very fortunate to have Adrian Stojkovich joining us at MAC and presenting our new drawing course. Adrian is as endearing in real life as his work. He carries a...
At Melbourne Art Class we are offering two Life Drawing Courses in November. Tutored Life Drawing with Jesse Dayan and Painting from the Figure with Marco Corsini. We’d love to you...
We tend to have so much happening in our lives. When we wake up we already have a list of what we need to do that day formulated in our head...
Over the summer holidays many of us our leave our paintbrushes and pencils where we left them after our final art class. So we have introduced two new short courses to motivate you to...