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Browse a wide range of courses for adult learners across all interests and levels.

Explore learning opportunities across languages, arts, humanities, technology, business, and leisure. WEA Sydney offers both face-to-face and online courses, giving you flexible ways to learn in a format that suits your lifestyle and goals.


Drawing the Nude - One Day Sustained Pose

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 / $139

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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Portraiture and the Passions

Portraiture and the Passions

Drawing and Painting Courses
Have you ever wanted to draw someone's portrait? Aim to see the human head within the context of historical portraiture conventions, to emotionally animate the sitter.
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$373 Limited inc GST / $336

Portraiture and the Passions

<p>Have you ever wanted to draw someone’s portrait? This introduction to the art of portraiture aims to expand your understanding of the portrait beyond that of a well observed and static reproduction

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Oil Painting for Beginners to Intermediate: Dutch Flower Still Life

Oil Painting for Beginners to Intermediate: Dutch Flower Still Life

Drawing and Painting Courses
Discover the beauty of Dutch flower painting while developing practical skills in oil painting. Learn tone, colour and composition in a supportive studio environment.
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$373 Limited inc GST / $336

Oil Painting for Beginners to Intermediate: Dutch Flower Still Life

<p>Oil painting is an enjoyable and rewarding medium to learn, and with the right guidance anyone can develop the skills and confidence to create beautiful artwork. Using the rich tradition of Dutch

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Anyone Can Learn to Draw! A Course for Beginners

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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Drawing Flower Still Life in Mixed Media

Drawing Flower Still Life in Mixed Media

Drawing and Painting Courses
Explore a range of drawing materials while creating beautiful floral still-life studies. Learn techniques for conveying tone, texture, atmosphere and form.
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$389 Limited inc GST / $350

Drawing Flower Still Life in Mixed Media

<p>This practical course introduces participants to the expressive possibilities of mixed-media drawing through the timeless subject of floral still life. Working with materials including pen and ink,

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Tiepolo and the Gandolfi Brothers: Masters of Italian Rococo

Tiepolo and the Gandolfi Brothers: Masters of Italian Rococo

Art Appreciation Courses
Explore the elegance and brilliance of Italian Rococo through the works of Tiepolo and the Gandolfi brothers, whose paintings transformed eighteenth-century art.
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$71 Limited inc GST / $64

Tiepolo and the Gandolfi Brothers: Masters of Italian Rococo

<p>Discover the light, elegant and imaginative world of Italian Rococo through the works of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and the gifted Gandolfi brothers, Ubaldo and Gaetano. Tiepolo became

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French Impressionism and the Salon Painters: Myth and Reality

French Impressionism and the Salon Painters: Myth and Reality

Art Appreciation Courses
Impressionism is often portrayed as a revolt against academic art. Discover a more complex story and explore the shared concerns and surprising connections between the Impressionists and the so-called Salon painters.
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$71 Limited inc GST / $64

French Impressionism and the Salon Painters: Myth and Reality

<p>Art history has often presented the French Impressionists as revolutionaries who broke decisively with the artistic establishment of their day. Yet the relationship between Impressionism and the

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Still Life and the Art of Composition

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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Oil Painting for Beginners to Intermediate / Old Master Copy for Advanced Students

Oil Painting for Beginners to Intermediate / Old Master Copy for Advanced Students

Drawing and Painting Courses
Contrary to popular myth, oil painting – like drawing and watercolour - is a medium that anyone can gain proficiency at. Build oil painting skills incrementally from week to week.
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Drawing for Beginners

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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