Brush up on your art skills with our painting short courses in Sydney!
Is there a landscape, still life image or photograph you've been inspired to capture on canvas? Perhaps you want to get creative and messy with an abstract painting workshop? With our painting courses, you can develop observational skills and paint handling techniques using oils, acrylics or watercolours.
We offer beginner and specialty short courses or workshops led by passionate artists at our campus in Rozelle.
Learn to paint beautiful pictures using gouache with our painting short courses in Sydney! Learn how to paint with gouache, a versatile and highly expressive medium known for its vibrant colour and distinctive matte finish. Often described as “opaque watercolour,” gouache allows artists to build layers, create bold highlights, and achieve a velvety surface that sits between watercolour and acrylic. In this practical course, you will explore how gouache works on its own and in...
<p>Learn to paint beautiful pictures using gouache with our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/visual-arts/painting">painting short courses</a> in Sydney!</p>
Learn to paint botanical art using watercolour with our painting short courses in Sydney! Botanical art is a specialised form of painting that captures the beauty, detail, and precision of plants, bringing them to life through realistic watercolour techniques. This botanical watercolour course is ideal for both beginners and experienced artists looking to develop their skills in botanical illustration. The course begins with an introduction to watercolour application, where you...
<p>Learn to paint botanical art using watercolour with our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/visual-arts/painting">painting short courses</a> in Sydney!</p>
Materials Kit: Kits must be ordered at least one week before the class starts to allow time for delivery. You can purchase a kit at checkout or bring your own—just uncheck the box.
Enrol in two or more painting or watercolour classes that are more than four sessions in length in a single transaction and receive 15% off your total course fees at checkout. The discount applies only when eligible classes are in your cart.
<p>Learn to paint botanical art using watercolour with our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/visual-arts/painting">painting short courses</a> in Sydney!</p>
Materials Kit: Kits must be ordered at least one week before the class starts to allow time for delivery. You can purchase a kit at checkout or bring your own—just uncheck the box.
Enrol in two or more painting or watercolour classes that are more than four sessions in length in a single transaction and receive 15% off your total course fees at checkout. The discount applies only when eligible classes are in your cart.
Learn drawing and painting skills with our drawing courses and painting courses in Sydney! Discover an enriching daytime course offering a comprehensive introduction to observation-based drawing and acrylic painting. Your course fee covers artist-quality acrylic paint, brushes, palettes, and canvas paper. To participate, bring either an A3 pad, an A3 spiral sketch pad or 4 sheets of A3-size cartridge paper per session, along with a lead pencil (B3 to B6 range) and a regular white...
<p>Learn drawing and painting skills with our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/visual-arts/drawing">drawing courses</a> and <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au
Enrol in two or more painting or watercolour classes that are more than four sessions in length in a single transaction and receive 15% off your total course fees at checkout. The discount applies only when eligible classes are in your cart.
Learn to work with oil paints with our painting short courses in Sydney! In this comprehensive oil painting course, you will learn the techniques and benefits of working with the oil paint medium. Suitable for both beginners and those with some painting experience, you will be guided through structured exercises to create paintings with beautiful texture and finish – even without any prior painting experience. In this oil painting course, you will learn how to prepare your...
<p>Learn to work with oil paints with our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/visual-arts/painting">painting short courses</a> in Sydney!</p>
Materials Kit: Kits must be ordered at least one week before the class starts to allow time for delivery. You can purchase a kit at checkout or bring your own—just uncheck the box.
Enrol in two or more painting or watercolour classes that are more than four sessions in length in a single transaction and receive 15% off your total course fees at checkout. The discount applies only when eligible classes are in your cart.
Explore the rich tradition of Chinese painting through our visual art courses in Sydney. San sui (literally means Mountain & Water) is a mainstream painting subject in Classical Chinese painting. It flourished alongside the birth of literati art in China during the Song dynasty (960~ 1279 CE). This visual journey also carries a symbolic meaning of human life. In classical landscape painting, we do not merely copy the physical outlook of nature. We regard it as a combination of our...
<p>Explore the rich tradition of Chinese painting through our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/visual-arts">visual art courses</a> in Sydney.</p>
Learn linocut printmaking with our Art Courses in Sydney! Explore the wonderful world of linocut printmaking. This art form involves carving intricate designs into linoleum blocks, applying ink to the carved surface, and then transferring the design onto paper or other mediums through a printing process. In a linocut class, students learn the fundamental techniques and skills needed to create their own linocut prints. Through expert instruction, demonstrations, and hands-on...
Learn to paint beautiful portraitures using oil paints with our painting short courses in Sydney! Portraiture is compelling, interesting, and commonly considered one of the most difficult aspects of oil painting. However, when employing practical steps and techniques, portrait painting can be a very rewarding activity. This course will cover the fundamentals of portrait painting such as proportion, skin tone, and general oil painting techniques to give students confidence and...
<p>Learn to paint beautiful portraitures using oil paints with our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/visual-arts/painting">painting short courses</a> in Sydney!</p>
Materials Kit: Kits must be ordered at least one week before the class starts to allow time for delivery. You can purchase a kit at checkout or bring your own—just uncheck the box.
Enrol in two or more painting or watercolour classes that are more than four sessions in length in a single transaction and receive 15% off your total course fees at checkout. The discount applies only when eligible classes are in your cart.
Learn how to make an abstract painting with our painting short courses in Sydney! This course is ideal for both beginners and those with some painting experience. Participants will explore various techniques of abstraction, drawing inspiration from organic forms found in flowers and plants. They will experiment with combinations of transparent and opaque paints to understand their distinct effects. The workshop starts with warm-up exercises conducted on paper. Discussions on...
<p>Learn how to make an abstract painting with our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/visual-arts/painting">painting short courses</a> in Sydney!</p>
Learn to paint using acrylics with our painting short courses in Sydney! We will explore various subject techniques and cover the fundamentals of tone, colour, form, and perspective through Still Life, Portrait, the Human Figure, and Landscape. Suitable for beginners to intermediate levels, the course is intended to help you develop your own personal style. Whether you are an absolute beginner or have some painting experience, you will enjoy our structured acrylic painting course...
<p>Learn to paint using acrylics with our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/visual-arts/painting">painting short courses</a> in Sydney!</p>
Materials Kit: Kits must be ordered at least one week before the class starts to allow time for delivery. You can purchase a kit at checkout or bring your own—just uncheck the box.
Enrol in two or more painting or watercolour classes that are more than four sessions in length in a single transaction and receive 15% off your total course fees at checkout. The discount applies only when eligible classes are in your cart.
<p>Learn to paint using acrylics with our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/visual-arts/painting">painting short courses</a> in Sydney!</p>
Materials Kit: Kits must be ordered at least one week before the class starts to allow time for delivery. You can purchase a kit at checkout or bring your own—just uncheck the box.
Enrol in two or more painting or watercolour classes that are more than four sessions in length in a single transaction and receive 15% off your total course fees at checkout. The discount applies only when eligible classes are in your cart.
Start painting landscapes in watercolour with our painting short courses in Sydney! Step into the world of watercolour with this relaxed, beginner-friendly landscape painting workshop at Sydney Community College. This one-session class introduces you to the unique qualities of watercolour and teaches essential techniques used to capture light, atmosphere and depth in the landscape. Through demonstrations and guided practice, you will learn how to observe and simplify landscape...
<p>Start painting landscapes in watercolour with our <a href="https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/courses/visual-arts/painting">painting short courses</a> in Sydney!</p>