Painting Course for Kids (Ages 10-15)
Course Overview
Develop your individual painting style!
In this friendly and engaging painting course students will work through a number of paintings aimed to be fun and satisfying. There will be individual feedback and support throughout each class.
The lessons will work through animals, scenes and other forms of representational painting using your child’s interests, with references to art history and current artists’ practices.
This is a drop-off course, parents are welcome to drop their kids off and pick them up at the end of the session.
Outcomes
- To develop a new way of seeing to describe the visual world
- To develop an understanding of colour and composition in relation to painting
- To become comfortable and familiar with the materials involved in acrylic and watercolour painting
- To develop their own personal painting practice
Term 1 Dates
Tuesday 3 February to Tuesday 31 March
Course Breakdown
Week 1–2: Summer scenes - swimming pools, beaches, ice creams. Looking at shades of blue and discussing light. Start with watercolour in the first week. Reference artists David Hockney and Wayne Thiebaud. Completion of first paintings.
Week 3–4: Exploring the animal kingdom - paintings of favourite creatures and their habitats. Discussion on colour mixing. Reference historic animal painting examples, including Picasso and Brett Whiteley.
Week 5–6: Drawing inspiration from books, music, or television. Illustrate or paint a scene or character from a favourite book, song, movie, or TV show. Discussion on composition and perspective. Explore how artworks have influenced movie directors (e.g., Jean-Honoré Fragonard in Frozen, Edvard Munch in Home Alone). Introduction to pop art.
Week 7–9: Begin painting using a personal reference. Recap individual painting practice and complete the personal reference painting.
Materials List
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Pencil case with coloured pencils, lead pencil, scissors and glue stick
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Sketchbook or VAPD
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Paint brushes
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Acrylic paints, primary colours (blue, red and yellow) plus white
Optional
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Watercolour set, only if students already own one
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Imogen Rowe
Imogen Eve Rowe is an observational artist interested in local gardens. Her gentle teaching style focuses on composition and colour theory through discussing historic and contemporary examples. Her aim is to help students feel comfortable and creative and find their own artistic voice.
Imogen is a recent graduate of the National Art School Sydney, majoring in painting. She also holds a Bachelor of Design (Communication Design) from Swinburne University of Technology (2007).
She is a finalist in the 2025 Dobell Drawing Prize and the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award. Her large-scale watercolour portrait of her grandfather, Pop, was featured in the 2024 Salon des Refusés.
In 2019, Imogen held her first solo exhibition, Familiar Flora, at the Chrissie Cotter Gallery in Camperdown. In 2023, she held a mini solo exhibition titled Daily Quiet at Weswal Gallery in Tamworth. Imogen’s work is included in the collection of Campbelltown Hospital, the National Art School Library and is also held in private collections across Australia.
About Imogen Rowe