Creative Classes and Workshops
Empowering you to draw, paint and be creative
Led by a Tasmanian artist, educator, and arts advocate Dr. Meg Walch, these creative classes and workshops are designed to carefully draw out of every participant the realisation (and satisfaction!) that you can draw, paint and be creative.
Our Hobart-based Giblin Street Studio is set in a lush, nourishing oasis behind a suburban garden gate, unveils our active incubator where we invite you to cultivate your own creativity in its many forms.
Familiarity with manipulating messy mediums, using paint, charcoal and inks is a wonderful and impactful method for resilience training - which always transforms the material (and often the maker!).
So dress to get messy, and invest in a workshop that gives you the space to find the freedom you crave. Our workshops are suitable for anyone who would like to explore…..
Attract, Extract, Induce
Drawing Workshop
Sunday 4 February, 5 May and 16 June 2024, 10am-1pm
Workshop available to 8 people, suitable for people interested in exploring the delight of drawing and exercising the brain through the hand.
To draw is to attract, extract, induce, gently pull or guide, to formulate, to perceive, to take breath, to move in a slow and steady way.
Just as the word draw has multiple meanings and applications; drawing can be used for representation, problem solving, and accessing flow states. This workshop provides you with multiple perspectives and a toolkit for drawing out the potential of both the medium and the drawer.
Dates:
Sunday February 4th 10am - 1pm.
Sunday May 5th 10am - 1pm.
Sunday June 16th 10am - 1pm.
Workshop: $137, includes booking fee, resource kit, materials and fresh home made morning tea. (Please advise if you have any food intolerances or sensitivities). 8 people per workshop.
Sticky,Seductive, Subjective, Relational
Painting Workshop
Sunday 3 March, 26 May 2024, 9.30am-1.30pm
Workshop available to 8 people, suitable for beginner - intermediate painters or anyone interested in exploring the medium for the first time.
In this workshop we focus on select techniques and materials in painting with oils and acrylics (specialising in oils) and will include a generous dollop of Colour Theory. For beginning to intermediate painters.
Some of the topics we cover: choosing painting supports, priming, grounds, underpainting, sketching in form, blocking in form, highlights, Colour Theory & Toxicology.
Dates:
Sunday March 3rd 9.30am-1.30 pm.
Sunday May 26th 9.30 am-1.30 pm.
Workshop: $137, includes booking fee, resource kit, materials and fresh home made morning tea. (Please advise if you have any food intolerances or sensitivities). 8 people per workshop.
What People Are Saying
“After years of artistic hibernation, it was pure delight to be reminded how rewarding it is to explore the power of drawing. I felt rejuvenated and utterly satisfied after my time with marvellous Meg. I’ll be back for more!”
— Jen, Hobart
“It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.”
— person
“It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.”
— person
Workshop description: Why do we see colours the way we do? How is colour used to manipulate space and how is it used to tell a story?
This workshop is a deep dive into the seductive, subjective, relational, and perceptual components of colour, together with colour theory, colour mixing, materials and a peek into the history and economics of colour.
Date: Sunday April 7th 10am-1pm. Limited to 8 people.
Location: 95A Giblin Street New Town: https://bit.ly/Workshop_Location
Tickets: $137. Includes booking fee, resource kit, materials and morning tea.
https://events.humanitix.com/colour
Key words: colour theory, colour mixing, the history of colour, the economics of colour, the materiality of colour, alchemy
Drawing On The Brain - Journaling
A preview of Meg Walch's travel journals in preparation for a series of journaling workshops.
This workshop will focus on sketchbooks as a foundational tool for artistic practice and journals as artworks in themselves. Materials will be provided and you’re invited to bring your own journals to share in this session.
Taught by - Meg J. Walch (BFA. MFA Ph.D.) Artist, Educator, Arts advocate
Colour
Studio
Introduction to Tasmanian Artist Megan Walch's "Drawing on the Brain" Workshop Series
In 2021 painting and drawing workshops launched at her Giblin Street studio. The Studio is in a renovated boat shed constructed by boat builder Ron Beltz in the 1930’s, following the Great depression.
Meg teaches workshops in her studio with a focus on drawing and painting. She hosts small groups in her private painting studio and lush garden setting.
Mr. Beltz launching his new boat Sand Deep at the Hobart Dock - 1935