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Student Exhibition at North Sydney Council Gallery 2020. kids art exhibition online art classes still life threatened species Oct 12, 2020

2020 has been a challenging year for students and teachers alike!

However, with the enduring support of the North Sydney Arts and Culture Program, we are, once again, able to showcase our beautiful student's works from the 1st of October  - 26th  of October 2020 at the InTransit Art...

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Spring Holiday Workshops 2020. kids art classes kids drawing kids painting kids sculpture spring holiday workshops Oct 11, 2020

Thank you to all the children that joined our spring school holidays workshops, my mum and I had so much fun teaching from our open garden studio during some beautiful sunny warm days. Our students had the opportunity to experience an array of different mediums, including watercolour painting,...

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Term three sculpture, under the sea 2020 kids sculpture sea animals term three Sep 21, 2020

This year I was inspired by the "Great ocean Odessey." A documentary about the east Australian ocean currents and the animals that live in this area of the ocean.

At the start of term, I provide my students with loads of images that they then choose their favourite that they would like to draw,...

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Winter Holiday Workshops 2020 kids art classes kids painting kids sculpture winter holiday workshops Jul 20, 2020

Basia and I love teaching your children and always enjoy the tremendous energy they bring to our studio.
It was so lovely to have students back again at our studio for the Winter school holidays.

Our younger students enjoyed collage and painting Gouldin Finches, one of the online art classes we...

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Easter Holiday Workshops 2020 - Online. art box workshops easter holiday workshops kids art classes kids drawing kids painting online art classes threatened species Apr 10, 2020

As we are experiencing a time of change Art Box Workshops Co-Founders Julia Sawicki and Basia Zielinska have been working hard to offer our Easter school holiday video tutorials online.

We researched many options of how to deliver the classes safely to your children. We had news reports that...

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Term one, 2020: Fundamentals of drawing and painting. kids art classes kids art exhibition kids drawing kids painting still life term one Mar 24, 2020

This year our student's learned how to draw and paint a still life of "Sea Shells" and their favourite fruit or vegetable. Our last week of term one art classes were cut short because of COVID-19 lockdown, but we did manage to resume face to face classes when lockdown restrictions lifted at the...

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Summer Holiday Workshops 2020 kids art classes kids drawing kids painting kids printmaking kids sculpture summer holiday Jan 25, 2020

Happy 2020
Already children have enjoyed time at the beach or the spectacular outdoor areas around Sydney.
We create workshops that may reflect their experiences such as "Summer at the beach" the student create a mixed media collage of their experience at the beach.
Some students enjoyed staying in...

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Term four, 2019, Students Portraits with Animals from the Amazon. kids art classes kids drawing kids painting kids portrait classes term four Dec 15, 2019

In Term Four, our creative focus is self-portraitures, our students learn how to draw and then paint their own self-portrait.

After witnessing on the news the devastation of the Amazon forest burning down our students painted portraits of themselves with Animals from the Amazon.

We offer art...

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Spring Holiday Workshops 2019. kids art classes kids drawing kids painting kids printmaking kids sculpture spring holiday workshops threatened species Oct 12, 2019

We had a wonderful two weeks of spring school holiday workshops with plenty of spring-themed artworks being created in a wide range of modalities.

Our students had loads of fun creating clay sculptures, paintings on canvases and papier-mache bowls. 'Still, life' of flowers and a sweet spring birds...

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Term three sculpture - Native Australian Birds 2019. animal conservation kids art classes kids design kids drawing kids sculpture native australian animals Sep 26, 2019

Term three sculpture classes are one of our student's favourite creative activities of the year.

Native Australian Birds was the theme for this year. Our youngest students, aged six to eight years old, enjoyed learning how to draw then sculpt Kookooburras, Goulden finches and Cockatoos.

Our older...

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Art Box Workshops award winning art school 2019. animal conservation kids art classes kids art exhibition kids design kids drawing kids painting kids printmaking native australian animals native australian flowers threatened species Sep 07, 2019

Thank you to our term two art students who had worked so hard creating such beautiful artworks on their chosen threatened species.
Our student-created an individual artwork and also joined the whole class to create one group artwork.

Each year our students enter their artworks into the ...

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