Image: Mel Brown, 2024. Charcoal drawing and mixed media. Watercolour paper, Canson coloured papers, white and black tissue paper, white and black conte pencils & sticks, Japanese Asarakushi & Kumogarashi paper, willow charcoal, compressed charcoal. 76cm x 56cm

Mixed Media Figure Workshop

Guest Presenter:  Mel Brown

Date: Sunday 17 November, 2024

Time: 10.00 am – 4.00 pm

Included in Fee:

  • Live model (3 hours)
  • Assorted textured papers
  • Drawing materials – Conte, pastels, felt tip, pencils
  • Sketch paper & sundries
  • Afternoon tea

To bring:

  • Paint Brushes in a range of sizes
    OR Splashout can supply a brush kit at a reduced cost of $30
  • Soft rags (ie old t-shirts)
  • Your own cup/mug
  • A snack/lunch

Location: Splashout Art Studios, 5 Ravine Street, Marino, South Australia

Fee: $265

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

This workshop offers relaxed and playful applications to drawing the figure within a space/ setting.  Initially, drawing from a life model, participants will construct a large figurative drawing, with a focus on representational aspects and notational sketches. This will be followed by a series of exercises and quick moves that explore different ways to represent the figure through expressive mark-making, colour, collage and mixed media applications.

This workshop will experiment with formal qualities such as composition, tone, shape, texture, colour, pattern, repetition, line and harmony. Learning fundamental visual skills, to create inventive compositions through direct observation, memory, imaginative and constructed spaces.

Suitable for beginners and advanced painters.

Photo of presenter, Melanie Brown

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Mel Brown is a visual artist and Arts Educator, practising on Kaurna Country (Tarndanya/Adelaide Plains). Since 2011 she has taught both Painting and Drawing at Adelaide Central School of Art. She also has facilitated numerous, drawing and painting workshops in portraiture, and life drawing including the Art Gallery of South Australia, community and regional galleries.

Primarily a realist figurative painter she presents the viewer with alternative ways of experiencing the body, to speak of the seemingly familiar, yet unsteady states of being.  “I like to play with visual codes in work that rides the boundaries of perception, identity, and gender, finding possibilities in uncertain spaces”.

Mel received her Bachelor of Visual Art (Honours) at Adelaide Central School of Art in 2008. She received several scholarships and was the recipient of the Alumni Award in recognition of her outstanding achievement in her studies. In 2010 also received the golden key for studies in Diploma of Education (Double Art). Recently, she was a finalist in the Kennedy Art prize 2024 and has won several art prizes including, 2013 Kennedy People’s Choice Art Prize 2013, the Star Portrait Prize Loretto Spring Art Show 2013 and the Cliftons Art prize 2008. Mel’s works have been curated in group shows including Praxis Artspace, BMG Art Gallery, the South Australian Living Artists (SALA) festival and has received corporate and private commissions both nationally and internationally.

BOOKINGS AND PAYMENT

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Tel: (08) 8296 3859
Email: art@splashout.net.au

Please note a $70 deposit is required with booking to secure your place

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  • Electronic funds transfer:
    BSB: 735621 | Account number: 545035 | Account Name: Splashout Studios (Please advise when paid)

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