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Art and Craft Courses
Develop your creativity and practical artistic skills through a range of art and craft courses. Work with different techniques while expressing your own ideas. Suitable for both beginners and those refining their artistic style.
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Crochet for Beginners
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Crochet for Beginners
<p>Learn to crochet - it will be fun and relaxing and you’ll be able to make lovely crochet items. This beginners’ level course will introduce you to crochet methodology including various simple
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Drawing the Sydney Landscape in Pencil, Pen and Ink Wash
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Drawing the Sydney Landscape in Pencil, Pen and Ink Wash
<p>Sydney’s landscape offers rich inspiration for drawing. This practical art course focuses on observing and capturing local scenery using pencil and ink wash techniques. Participants explore line,
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Life Drawing Lessons from the Masters
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Life Drawing Lessons from the Masters
<p>This course seeks to systematically outline and guide you through, some of the fundamental principles that lead to a comprehensive proficiency for drawing the human figure. Each week introduces the
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Reflections on Impressionism
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Reflections on Impressionism
<p>Impressionism transformed how artists represented light, movement and modern life. This course reflects on the key ideas, artists and social changes behind the movement, revisiting works by figures
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Oil Painting for Beginners to Intermediate / Old Master Copy for Advanced Students
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Oil Painting for Beginners to Intermediate / Old Master Copy for Advanced Students
<p>Contrary to popular myth, oil painting (much like drawing and watercolour) is a medium that anyone can gain proficiency at. Gain confidence by being initially introduced to a very limited number of
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Stitch by Stitch: Continental Knitting for Beginners
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Stitch by Stitch: Continental Knitting for Beginners
<p>This beginner-level course introduces the essential skills of continental knitting in a calm and supportive learning environment. It is ideal for students with little or no previous knitting
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Introduction to Tunisian Crochet
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Introduction to Tunisian Crochet
<p>Learn to use all 10 fingers to engage with yarn and colour to learn new stitches and create your own crocheted articles in Tunisian crochet which is not the same as regular crochet. It could be
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The Art and Power of the Maritime Republic of Genoa
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The Art and Power of the Maritime Republic of Genoa
<p>Genoa was one of the great maritime republics of medieval Europe, shaping trade, finance and politics across the Mediterranean. This course explores Genoa’s rise to power through its art,
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Calligraphy for Beginners: Humanist Script
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Calligraphy for Beginners: Humanist Script
<p>The Humanist Script is one of the most graceful calligraphic hands to emerge from the Renaissance, valued for its clarity, balance and timeless beauty. This beginner-friendly course introduces
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Great Roman Collections
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Great Roman Collections
<p>This course takes you to Rome’s great art collections: the Capitoline and Vatican Museums, Galleria Borghese, Palazzo Barberini and Palazzo Pamphilj; their magnificent locations, their genesis and
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