Workshops by Beth Kennedy
“A delightfully playful workshop facilitated by a very warm hearted and giving professional artist.”
— Sandy.M - Redhill
New! Creative Collage with Mixed Media + Using a Visual Diary.
6 week course at Bienarté (Brisbane)
Weekend Workshops
A weekend for you to chat & create … suitable for beginners and experienced artists.
My workshops are playful and fun, set in a friendly and supportive environment where you will learn drawing and painting techniques and the joy of creating and experimenting with new art materials.
Everyone will create their very own unique and creative painting. You will walk away with the skills and techniques to create your very own artworks!
What will I learn?
In this workshop Beth will show you warm up drawing exercises to help get the creative process flowing, then will follow botanical drawing studies and finally how to work these up on to a small mixed media painting on canvas. Large brushes will be used for washes, tiny brushes for detail and opaque areas of colour will be laid in too.
Have Fun!
The element of play and surprise results is an integral part of Beth’s art practice and working with mixed media and playing with these will be a part of this workshop, fun will be had with liquid watercolour, ink, gouache, watercolour and acrylic paint and paint markers. Beth will show you how to create washes using mediums and how to manipulate these and work into them. Using pattern and how to incorporate this into the paintings will be taught also.
This workshop is for everyone
Beth is a firm believer that drawing and painting are skills that can be learnt by anyone. The creative process should be fun and enjoyable, this will mean a better end result too, and as such this will be a relaxed and friendly workshop where questions will be welcome and hopefully new friends made over plenty of cups of tea!
9:30am - 4pm, 2 sessions, 13 hours total
Cost:
Materials to bring:
A small square canvas (approx 76 x 76cm, please pre-order from Bienarté), pencils for drawing, sketch book, selection of favourite acrylic paints, paint brushes including a small one for details.
All other materials and paints are provided
What people are saying…
“It was inspiring to learn the techniques and have guidance from such a talented artist. I enjoyed experimenting with different mediums and colours. The class numbers were perfect size to ensure everyone had enough space and Beth has time to work with us individually. Beth also has great taste in music! It was an amazing atmosphere and I feel inspired to keep creating!”
— Josephine.M - Coorparoo
“A delightfully playful workshop facilitated by a very warm hearted and giving professional artist.”
— Sandy.M - Redhill
“I was excited to do this course with Beth. I was particularly interested in the abstract quality, the patterning technique, use of ink and various mediums. I’m looking forward to putting into practise some of the techniques I learned. Beth was generous with her materials and course was value for money. Thanks.”
— Linda.A - Sunshine Coast
“I loved learning from you. Amazing how one vase of flowers and one teacher can have such different interpretations. That is a credit to you, encouraging us to follow our own style rather than conquering yours.”
— Kirsten - Geelong
“Great experience for me as a practising artist. It was really well organised and provided a nurturing and encouraging space for us to explore her unique approaches to making work. The shorter, preparatory tasks that Beth organised for us at the beginning of the lesson (involving subject matter, drawing techniques and colour mixing) enabled us to begin our final artworks with confidence. It was amazing to see how different yet still related the final works were at the end!
A really fun and educational experience - I’d recommend Beth’s workshops to everyone, whether you are new to making art or not.”
— Liz Wickramasinghe - Geelong
“Thanks again for the wonderful workshop, it really prompted me to put some time into developing my own style of painting and I’m just loving it!”
— Jessica - Geelong