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Term two, 2020 online art classes during COVID 19 lockdown. art box workshops kids art classes kids drawing kids painting native australian animals online art classes term two threatened species Jun 30, 2021

Our Easter School Holiday online art course was a first for Art Box Workshops, and we had very positive feedback from parents and students Australia Wide, I feel it was a huge success. It had given me confidence with the development of or term two, online course. This course started on Monday the...

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Term one - Fundamentals of drawing and painting. abstract art fundamentals of drawing fundamentals of painting kids drawing kids painting native australian flowers still life Mar 31, 2021

The students that attend our term one art classes develop confidence and skills, learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting.

This year our students learned how to sketch and draw Native Australian Flowers. I offer students helpful tips whilst demonstrating step by step the drawing process,...

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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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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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Award winning artwork - Cool Owls of Sydney. animal conservation kids art competiton kids art exhibition kids collaborative art kids design kids drawing kids painting kids printmaking term two threatened species Aug 07, 2019

Cool Owls of Sydney

We chose the Powerful Owl because we thought it looked cool, being so large with its massive claws and being able to catch and eat such large prey such as possums.
 
We love the fact that this giant Owl lives so close to our homes in Sydney, but unfortunately, the...
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