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Drawing and Painting Courses | WEA Sydney

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Drawing and Painting Courses

Drawing and Painting Courses

Develop confidence through drawing and painting practice.

Build foundational and advanced skills in drawing and painting through guided exercises and practical techniques. These courses support learners at all levels in developing observation, composition, and personal style.


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Flowing Reflections: A Mindful Watercolour Journey Through Sydney

Drawing and Painting Courses
Step into a gentle space where colour meets consciousness and brush meets breath. In this guided course, explore spontaneity as you paint a poetic Sydney cityscape in watercolour.
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$122 Limited inc GST / $110

Flowing Reflections: A Mindful Watercolour Journey Through Sydney

<p>A mindful journey into watercolour painting, where observation, breath, and colour flow together. In this workshop, we will explore a Sydney cityscape in watercolour through a calm, step-by-step

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WEA Sydney Art Exhibition 2026

WEA Sydney Art Exhibition 2026
This special exhibition showcases the extraordinary work of WEA Sydney students and tutors, highlighting artworks created through our Visual Arts courses during the first half of 2026.
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WEA Sydney Art Exhibition 2026

<p><strong>Discover. Connect. Be Inspired.</strong></p>

<p>Celebrate creativity, curiosity and community at the WEA Sydney Art Exhibition 2026.</p>

<p>This special exhibition showcases the

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Botanical Art in Watercolour: A Creative Painting Journey

Drawing and Painting Courses
Explore botanical art in watercolor! Learn plant and flower painting, washes, textures, color techniques, and composition in a creative, hands-on course.
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$300 Limited inc GST / $270

Botanical Art in Watercolour: A Creative Painting Journey

<p>Discover the beauty of Botanical Art in this watercolour painting course. Learn to paint plants and flowers while exploring essential techniques such as watercolor washes, fluidity, texture

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Drawing the Nude - One Day Sustained Pose

Drawing and Painting Courses
Study the human figure, while using sanguine red, black and white chalk pencils. Discover a sensual medium used by Michelangelo, Raphael and Rembrandt.
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$155 Limited inc GST / $140

Drawing the Nude - One Day Sustained Pose

<p>Before the invention of the graphite pencil, the most common dry medium employed by artists to draw with was chalk. A material used by Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Rubens and Rembrandt. In

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Still Life and the Art of Composition

Drawing and Painting Courses
Gain a comprehensive understanding of how to compose simple objects for drawing and other media. Construct a still life with lessons spanning Ancient Roman wall paintings of fruit to 18th century depictions of pantry items.
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$373 Limited inc GST / $336

Still Life and the Art of Composition

<p>An understanding of composition is essential for anyone wishing to compose an image that both functions visually as a whole and that captivates an audience. We will apply a visual analysis of the

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Painting Essentials

Drawing and Painting Courses
Learn to paint accurately and effectively, from still life to landscape, using colour to create harmonious pictures.
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$373 Limited inc GST / $336

Painting Essentials

<p>Join us in this course to greatly improve your painting skills! Every 1-2 weeks we progress through beginner to intermediate paintings. Learn effective brushwork techniques and memorable concepts

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Modern Chinese Landscape Painting

Drawing and Painting Courses
Explore how Chinese landscape painting changed after 1949, blending classical traditions with Western techniques and modern artistic ideas.
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$311 Limited inc GST / $280

Modern Chinese Landscape Painting

<p>This course traces the development of Chinese landscape painting from the late 19th century into the modern era, with a focus on changes after 1949. You’ll see how artists worked between continuity

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Drawing for Beginners

Drawing and Painting Courses
In an easy-to-grasp step-by-step manner, this course seeks to systematically guide you through some of the fundamentals that lead to a comprehensive proficiency in drawing.
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$350 Limited inc GST / $315

Drawing for Beginners

<p>In an easy-to-grasp step-by-step manner, this course seeks to systematically outline and guide you through some of the fundamental principles that lead to a comprehensive proficiency in drawing. We

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Anyone Can Learn to Draw! A Course for Beginners

Drawing and Painting Courses
This course seeks to systematically outline and guide you through some of the fundamentals that lead to a comprehensive proficiency in drawing.
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$350 Limited inc GST / $315

Anyone Can Learn to Draw! A Course for Beginners

<p>Starting with the most elementary geometric shapes, the course aims to gradually introduce the student to more challenges within the process of learning to draw; thus giving the beginner the

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Life Drawing - Beginners to Intermediate

Drawing and Painting Courses
This course seeks to comprehensively address the principles that lead to a proficiency in figure drawing.
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$373 Limited inc GST / $336

Life Drawing - Beginners to Intermediate

<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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