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Painting with Shelly

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8 x Tue, 18 February - 8 April 06:00 pm - 09:00 pm Byron Community College - Mullum Campus 11 $350.00
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Introduction:

For both beginners and those with experience, this course is held in a very supportive environment and is designed to help you get started with painting by understanding the basics or to help you progress with your painting abilities if you have already begun the wonderful adventure of a painting practice.

We will look at techniques for creating both realistic and abstract compositions, basic colour theory so that you can mix the colours you desire and understand tonal values, and different ways of applying paint.

It will include exercises to expand your painting abilities as well as providing support to help you develop any original paintings you may already have in progress or would like to get started on.

What to bring

If you don’t already have your own paints, paper, canvas, brushes etc you can purchase after the first class where Shelly will help you with a materials list that suits your budget and preferences. Otherwise bring your own
  • Paints (acrylic or oil)
  • Painting supports (painting paper, canvas, board etc)
  • Basic tools and materials will be provided 
Everyone is to bring their own
  • Snacks/lunch etc
 

Testimonials:
 

“Shelly is a wonderful teacher, very experienced and enthusiastic with regards to sharing her expertise. Shelly was there if I needed her and also allowed me my space to explore and experiment myself. I truly appreciated her holding of the class in a very positive and encouraging way. I’ve loved the whole course and look forward to continuing.” - Paulina
 
“Thank you Shelly for a truly amazing course! Loved everything, your knowledge, generosity, helpfulness, advice. It was so great! Would so recommend your course for anyone who wants to use colour in their art. See you for next course.” - Jenny
 
“Shelly is a gifted and experienced teacher. The environment she skillfully creates encourages individuality, creativity and community collaboration. She joyfully provides each student one on one direct feedback and encourages personal style and self directed learning. She is an asset to the Art Department and to all the students she teaches!” Megan
 

Important information

Once your enrolment is completed you will receive a confirmation email. This email will include your receipt and inform you of the dates, times and venue for your course. It will also let you know of anything you need to take to class with you.

Please make sure that you give us a valid email address and mobile number as any course changes will be communicated via sms or email.

Students are required to be 15 years old and above at the time of enrolment.

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With small class sizes for a better learning experience, our courses can fill up fast, but they also need a minimum number of enrolments to run, so avoid disappointment and enrol early!

Tutor Profile:

Shelly Anfield


Shelly uses the landscape with its horizon and vast skies as a metaphor for a poetic inner landscape of contemplation that she doesn’t easily find words for. The silent language of painting allows her to not only express, but also understand, a deeper aspect of herself and life.

During the age of Romanticism the landscape offered an opportunity to commune with nature and be moved by it in a way that allowed for a deeper connection to the self.

Artists painted to inspire powerful emotions with the purpose of evoking transcendental experiences through the aesthetic of the sublime. Shelly feels that these experiences are even more needed in our current technological world and seeks them out through her life and art. Using a limited palette and layers of finely blended oil paint to achieve an atmospheric glow, she moves between realism and abstraction searching for a way to express the immaterial through material means.

Shelly Anfield graduated from the National Art School in 2015 and went on to be chosen as 1 of 12 finalists in the Sydney, Clyde & Co Emerging Artist award. She has shown work in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Sydney and Northern NSW since then. Shelly has also been a finalist in a number of painting prizes including the prestigious Mosman Art Prize in 2017. She now lives in the Byron Hinterland in Northern NSW and works from her studio there. Her work is held in private collections across Australia, USA and Engl

 
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