Open Studio Art Classes Enrol

Adult art classes · Fremantle, WA

Paint, draw and throw clay — badly at first.

Small, friendly classes for grown-ups who want to make things with their hands. No talent test, no judgement — just good teachers, proper materials and a room full of people learning too.

  • Max 10 per class
  • Materials included
  • Day & evening sessions

Make a mark

Drag to paint · faster strokes run drier

Drag to paint — or press “Random stroke”

Term 4 · nine weeks

Classes

Four ways in. Everything you need is on the table when you arrive — you bring curiosity and an old shirt.

Life Drawing

Charcoal, conté and big paper. Short poses to loosen up, long poses to look properly. Draped and undraped models on alternate weeks.

When
Mon 6.30–8.30pm
Level
Everyone
Term
$360

Watercolour

Washes, wet-in-wet and the courage to leave white paper alone. Mornings, with a proper tea break.

When
Tue 10am–12.30pm
Level
Beginners
Term
$340

Oil Painting

From underpainting to thick, buttery final layers. Still life in the first half of term, your own subject in the second.

When
Wed 6.30–9pm
Level
Some drawing helps
Term
$420

Ceramics Taster

Three hours on the wheel and at the hand-building table. We glaze and fire your two best pieces — ready to collect in about three weeks.

When
Selected Sats 10am–1pm
Level
Total beginners
Session
$95

Sample prices in AUD, including materials (oil paints excepted — kit list supplied). Drop-in life drawing $45 a night when there’s room.

Mon 12 Oct – Sat 12 Dec

Term 4 at a glance

Nine weeks, four classes, one end-of-term show. Ceramics tasters run every second Saturday; everything else is weekly.

  • Life drawing
  • Watercolour
  • Oils
  • Ceramics taster
Term 4 timetable by week
Week ofMonTueWedSat

Materials

What’s on the table

Aprons, easels and a sink big enough for everyone. Tea and biscuits at every session.

We supply

  • Easels, boards and drawing horses
  • Cartridge and watercolour paper
  • Charcoal, conté and pastels
  • Clay, glazes and two firings
  • Aprons, brushes and solvents

You bring

  • An old shirt you don’t mind ruining
  • A sketchbook, if you have one
  • Oil paints for Wednesdays (starter kit $85)
  • Closed shoes for the ceramics room
  • Nothing else. Really.

Mara Keane

Life drawing · oils

Believes in big paper, loose wrists and looking twice as long as you draw.

Tomasz Wirth

Watercolour

Will teach you to love the happy accident, then how to plan for one.

Priya Nair

Ceramics

Centres the clay first and the nervous beginner second. Both usually work.

Enrol

Save a spot at the easel.

Places are held for 48 hours while we send payment details by email. Can’t make a week? Swap into another class that term.

Have you done this before?

Concept demo — nothing is booked or charged.