With a focus on painting quickly, this action-packed course blends ‘short and sweet’ exercises with longer painting sessions that help you explore effective time-saving strategies. Learn to see the big picture first—blocking in tonal shapes and colour masses, working from thin to thick, suggestion to definition, and loose to tight. Free up your brushwork and get to know your tools as you develop confident, speedy mark-making that enhances the painting’s energy, vitality and dynamics.
Expand your techniques and open creative doors by experimenting with knives, scrapers, rags and rollers. Play with chance, suggestive textures and ‘happy accidents’ to spark ideas for paintings in any subject. Along the way, discover the art of ‘less is more’ with practical tips and tricks to support your creative momentum.
Tony Windberg is a professional artist who has shared his knowledge and enthusiasm for art with students for over 3 decades. After completing his B.A. (Fine Arts) degree from Curtin University in 1986, Tony began his exhibiting career with numerous solo exhibitions and interstate group exhibitions. His focus has always been on the natural world. The landscape is the setting to explore ideas about people’s relationship with and responsibility for the planet.
His landscape-based artworks have received significant WA and national art awards.
Tony works in a wide range of traditional painting and drawing media from paints to pencils and pastels. He also continually explores new and unconventional materials and techniques. A popular teacher, he combines a deep respect for painting tradition with a sense of artistic adventure!
Examples of Tony’s artwork can be seen on the Tony Windberg website. He is represented in WA by Art Collective WA.