Line, Mark, Colour: Your Visual Language 2 Day workshop
$290.00
Explore your unique creative voice with Marg & Anandii
Saturday 23 August 2025: 10am-4pm
Sunday 24 August 2025: 10am-4pm
Suitable for All Skill Levels, ages 16+
This playful, relaxed two-day workshop is devoted to exploring and befriending key elements in making art—line, mark making and colour.
The two tutors are both experienced, practising artists who will guide you through a flowing sequence of exercises and explorations in which you will gain knowledge and understanding as you progress, then apply this to making one or more mixed media artworks.
Concentrating on one element at a time allows you to: develop a fuller, deeper understanding of the expressive qualities of line / mark / colour; learn about your personal visual language; build confident artistic skills.
This workshop is suitable for all levels of experience. If you are new to art making it will give you a sound grounding and skills in working in various media. If you are an experienced artist this is an opportunity to refresh and energise your visual language and create new elements to enhance your practice.
This is a practical, hands-on workshop that includes some theory and technical instruction. The workshop outline below is a guide; some elements of the workshop may change according to the needs of the participants.
DAY 1
Morning Focus on line
You will:
- Meet the tutors and other participants, establish a productive collective space for your creative work
- Hear briefly about creativity, the brain and the benefits of art-making
- Learn ways of looking
- Undertake a series of diverse drawing activities using a range of dry media.
- Experience working at various scales
- Discover the effects of drawing while standing, seating, moving; with eyes open and closed
- Create a library of line drawings for use on Day 2 in making mixed media artworks
Afternoon Mark making
You will:
- Extend your explorations into mark making using a variety of wet and dry media
- Experiment with using a diverse range of tools for mark-making, and understand the ways marks with different expressive qualities can be produced
- Learn what the expressive qualities of marks mean to you in your intuitive visual language
- Create a library of marks for use on Day 2 in making mixed media artworks
Day 2
Morning Making friends with colour
You will:
- Receive basic technical instruction in colour theory and mixing paint colours
- Investigate the emotional associations colours have for you
- Experiment with colour combinations and the visual effects they produce in compositions
- Create a library of colours for use in making mixed media artworks in the afternoon
Afternoon Making Mixed Media Artworks
You will:
- Bring together everything you have learned about your own visual language and what you have produced in your explorations and experiments in the workshop so far
- Be shown a range of techniques by the tutors on composing and constructing mixed media artworks for best visual effect
- Taking the concept ‘Move with Abandon’ as your starting point you will create one or more mixed media artworks
$25 materials fee pay directly to tutor
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Description
About Marg
Marg is a practising visual artist whose art journey has wound its way through various courses at Nowra TAFE that led to her exhibiting her work for the first time in 2007. Marg is inspired by the natural world, and enjoys exploring with different media. She has a special love of frottage—a technique of taking a rubbing from an uneven, textured surface to form the basis of an artwork. Marg has a pop-up gallery space in her home which frequently hosts community exhibitions, especially those by women artists.
About Anandii
Anandii is a practising ceramic artist and printmaker who is now dabbling in watercolour and palette knife 2D artworks. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at National Art School in 2006 and then moved on to complete ceramics study at TAFE. She is passionate about the environment and using art as a voice for change and connection with community. She loves to explore using different media and has at least five projects going at any given time—many of which sit patiently awaiting completion.
What to Bring
What is provided
- All materials and equipment required to participate in the workshop will be provided
- This includes: papers of various weights, sizes, qualities; backing boards; wide range of drawing media; paints, brushes and other tools for applying paint; scissors, glue, tape; etc.
What to bring
- 1 x image and 1 x Small object that you find visually interesting and/or appealing
- Apron or over shirt to protect your clothing
- Old towel or roll of absorbent paper
- Water bottle
- Any snacks and lunch (options to purchase lunch will be limited)
- Phone or camera
What you may also like to bring (optional)
- Your own pencils, charcoal, brushes, mixing palettes, water container, scissors etc
- Blank notebook / Visual diary
$25 materials fee pay directly to tutor
