Our Clay Lessons will be able to help children to develop their fine motor skills and the use of their fingers to explore different texture and shapes. It also helps to develop their hand and eye coordination like helping them to sort colours, sizes and shapes.
Children will be able to use their imagination and their creativity to create anything that they can think of...
Age Group: 5 to 12 years old
Course : 1 session per week
Day : Every Saturday and Sunday
Time : 9am to 12pm or 1.30pm to 4.30pm
Duration : 1 1/2hrs per session
Course Fee: $260 for 12 sessions (Materials included)
Contact No: 92740047
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At Creative Hands, we want to make sure you enjoy using the paints and materials we sell you! We want you to be confident, creative, and above all, adventurous when it comes to doing arts and crafts! Our commitment to this is through our tie-ups with free-lance art practictioners to hold art classes and workshops on popular arts and crafts such as Oil painting, Folk Art painting, Watercolours, children's art and many more to come!
Available Courses:
- Chankerk
-Shivali Keshav Agrawal
-Tan Ai Ngin
-Milica Bravacic
-Lim Siah Tong
-Goh Hui Lian
-Vera Leininger
-Charlene Chan
Instructions: Please contact the teachers directly (contact number and email addresses as listed below)
1. Polymer Clay for Children and Adult- Charlene Chan
2. Chankerk Art Classes - Oil, Watercolour, Acrylic and Drawing
Courses available:
Art Appreciation (Beginner) $170 for 4 sessions
Art Appreciation (Intermediate) $275 for 8 sessions, this is a continuity course where students come in every week to explore and enhance their skill in painting and appreciation level.
Course instructor :Chan Kerk
(contact number : 96905775)
Email:artclass@chankerk.com
Location: 26A Pagoda Street, Bukit Batok Crescent (Opening soon!)
About Chan Kerk
Singapore-trained, professional painter and dedicated art instructor. Chankerk is an expressionist with a precise sense of movement and interaction. Chankerk paints variety of subjects with expressive gestural strokes and emotion. His palette is delicate yet capable of bursting into rich and glowing luminosity. Chankerk has conducted numerous professional art courses for art lovers from all walks of life. His courses are in great demand and well received.
Course Outline for Art Appreciation Course (Beginner)
Chankerk Art Class
-discover the creative side of you!
Session 1: Orientation briefing. Introduction to materials and equipment. Discussion about the medium characteristics and uniqueness, paint application, palette preparation and tips to laying out workstation. Basic technique exercise(monochrome, simple forms still life)
Session 2:
Introduction to color basic properties and color wheel, how to recognize them and finally how to mix the color you see from a minimum palette of colors. Tips to maintain color intensity in painting. How artists uses colors in history. Color mixing exercise (simple still life)
Session 3:
Introduction to drawing basic, object forms and lighting. How to achieve accurate proportions and angles through sighting technique. Tips on how to draw complex objects easily through understanding of right brain and left brain functions, knowing vs. seeing.
Introduction of how artists observe nature in history. Painting Exercise 1
Session 4:
Painting Exercise 2. Art cirtiques 3.
Folkart Decorative Painting - Shivali Keshav Agrawal
About Decorative Painting
Decorative painting is an expression of joy. Just like oil and watercolor painting,
it’s and artistic expression achieved with oil as well as acrylic paints. Because
of the systematic methods employed, contemporary decorative painting is a highly
teachable art form, which is easy to learn and requires no previous experience
or academic training and drawing skills. Through the discipline in practice and
a desire to learn, even those who claim a total lack of creativity can do wonders.
· Lessons on painting skills (Brush strokes and Techniques) are designed to be
learned by individuals at their convenient pace.
· Classes are conducted six days a week, excluding Sunday.
Tole painting is the term that has been used historically for decorative painting
on tin surfaces, especially in New England and by the Pennsylvania Germans.
Today, in addition to tole painting and folk art styles of many countries such
as Norway, Sweden, Germany, Russia, England and Mexico, contemporary decorative
painting includes facets of Early American Decorative Painting such as
stenciling, bronzing, gold leafing, country painting and graining.
1) Basic level
At the completion of all the basic lessons students are expected to
have gained familiarity with some of the brushstrokes and painting
techniques and understanding of color mixing, blending and basic faux
finishing skills.
At the completion of all the intermediate lessons students are expected
to have mastered all the intermediate level brushstrokes and painting
techniques. Strokework embellishments are more complex than those in the
Basic level. Students are also expected to have learnt most of the faux
finishing skills.
Morning Classes :
Thursday (11a.m - 1.30p.m, 6.30-9pm @ Creative Hands, Ngee Ann City #04-20C)
Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday (10a.m - 12.30pm @ Toh Tuck Road)
Evening Classes:
Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday(7:00 pm - 9:30 pm @ Toh Tuck Road)
· Classes are conducted six days a week, excluding Sunday.
Morning Classes :
Wednesday (11a.m - 1.30p.m @ Creative Hands, Ngee Ann City #04-20C)
Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday (10a.m - 12.30pm @ Toh Tuck Road)
Evening Classes:
Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday(7:00 pm - 9:30 pm @ Toh Tuck Road)
4. Drawing & Sketching with Pencils & Charcoal (Tan Ai Ngin)
Course Fees : $450 for 10 sessions (2 hrs each. Materials are included)
Course instructor :Tan Ai Ngin (contact: 91814499)
Location: Seng Poh Road(Tiong Bahru); Outdoors
Class size: 1 - 4
Class schedule
Weekdays/Weekends: Please call to confirm preferred timings.
Instructor & Course Details
Ai Ngin Tan, born in 1972, graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore in 1996. Over the years, in order to expand her scope of art, she took up a Chinese Painting Course in China and went to Holland in 2000 to pursue a one-year course at Constantijn Huygens in Kampen.
Her favourite subjects include landscapes and plants. She is attracted to old houses and places of rural nature, with their simplicity and primitive atmosphere. She likes to work from observation of her subjects, establish communication with them and express them with a direct perception and feeling.
Students will learn the techniques of forming a picture with black and white. Besides indoor stil-life drawing, students are encouraged to work outdoors with nature.
Course Outline
The course outline is flexible and can be customized for the student’s preference to include only still-life or landscapes.
5.Beginner’s Drawing Course (Milica Bravacic)
Course Fees : $75/1.5 hours (10 sessions - 1.5 to 2 hours - pencil or graphite sticks)
Course instructor : Milica Bravacic (contact: 93655829, milica@pacific.net.sg)
Read more about Milica
Location: Sommerville Park Condo (Farrer Dr)
Class size: Maximum of 4
Class schedule
Weekdays: Tuesday, Wed 9.30 am - 11 am, 11.30 am - 1 pm
Weekends: Saturday 10 am - 11.30 am, 11.30 am - 1 pm
Instructor & Course Details
Milica Bravacic is an European artist with an M.A. in painting. Since she came to Singapore, she has been intensely focused on art education. She has worked as an art history consultant at Nayang Academy of Fine Arts and Lasalle-SIA Colleage of the Arts. She has also conducted Art & Art History Courses at Chatsworth International School.
Milica has developed an intensive drawing course for the complete beginner with strong emphasis on the Western academic approach; which has proven its efficacy in many art schools around the world. Her systematic and structured classes will enable any insecured beginner to gain confidence and develop drawing skills that they never imagined they had!
The class begins with the understanding of proportions and perspective, observing light and shade, moves on into various drawing techniques; and finally you will complete the course with portraiture drawing with a live model!
Course Outline
Session 1: Familiarising oneself with the proportions of presented objects, eg geometrical shapes (cubes, rectangulars, spheres, cones) of different sizes STILL LIFE (90min), technique: graphite stick, pencils (HB-3B)
Session 2: Transposition from the presented situation, focusing on the contrast between the shaded and lightened sides of geometrical shapes. Perceiving the “negative space”. Difference in the contour line. STILL LIFE (90min), technique: graphite stick, pencil (HB-6B)
Session 3: Transposition from the presented situation, focusing on the 3 grades of light and shade contrast. Expressing the contour line accordingly. One non- geometrical shape included. STILL LIFE (90min), technique: graphite stick, pencil (HB -6B)
Session 4: Shading. Geometrical shapes. Shading. Simple cross-hatching. Achieving 3 grades of darkness. Perceiving “negative space”. STILL LIFE (150min) technique: pencil (HB-6B)
Session 5: Full scale shading by different types of cross-hatching. Complete study of light. STILL LIFE (150min) technique: pencil (HB - 6B)
Session 6: Shading of non-geometrical shapes. Elaborating the technique of cross-hatching. Emphasis on materialization of objects. STILL LIFE (150min) technique: pencil (HB-6B), crayon
Session 7: Shading. Instruction doll as part as part of still life. Focusing & understanding of the human figure. STILL LIFE (150min) technique: pencil (HB -6B), crayon.
Session 8: CROQUIS, quick sketch of different poses of the instruction doll. Analysisof the character of line - attempting to make instant creative sketch, by understanding personal inclinations in lineatr expressing. INSTRUCTION DOLL (90min) technique: pencil (HB-6B), graphite stick, crayons, watercolour sticks, charcoal, pen & ink
Session 9: Drawing from a live model. Study of a figure. Contour line of different quality. Emphasis on correct perception of the relations between parts of the body. Anatomy research. FIGURE DRAWING (150min) technique: pencil, crayons, charcoal, ink etc.
Session 10: Drawing from live model. Anatomy of the head, analysis of proportions.Full scale study. To be repeated several times from different angles. PORTRAIT (150min): technique: pencil, charcoal, crayons.!
OTHER ART COURSES by Milica
6. The Art of Sketch And Colouring (Lim Siah Tong)
Course Fees: S$360 for 12 sessions (2 1/2 hours per session)
Course Instructor: Lim Siah Tong (contact:64799473 limsiahtong@pacific.net.sg)
Class Size: 4-5
Location: Farrer Court (along Farrer Rd)
Available Classes: Sat morning (10.30am-1pm) or afternoon (1.30 - 4pm) or Sun morning (10am-12.30pm)
Instructor & Course Details
A brief biography of Professional Artist
LIM SIAH TONG
Learn how to capture figures and movements using keen observation and skillful, confident strokes over 12 sessions. Learn from this versatile veteran artist on how to sketch using pencils, monotone coloured pencils and pen and finally to the use of watercolours.
7. Paper Crafts, Rubber Stamping & Punch Art - Goh Hui Lian
Course instructor :Hui Lian
(contact: 93687523)
mycraftyideas@yahoo.com.sg
Rubber Stamping101: Rubberstamp Your Greeting Cards, Gift Bags and Boxes (Adults
or children from 12 years)
- Learn how to create fantastic cards, gift bags, boxes and bookmarks using a variety
of simple techniques & an exciting array of rubber stamps and accessories
Rubber Stamping102: Intermediate Rubber Stamping Techniques & Gifts
- Intermediate card stamping techniques such as 3D elements, pop-up cards
bleaching and spotlighting.
Rubber Stamping103: Advanced Rubber Stamping Techniques & Gifts
- Learn how to make photo frames, mini journals and clocks and sugar marbling technique
that is truly unique.
Punch Art for Adult and Children (6 years and above)
- Learn how to make use various punch shapes to create flowers and animals
and use them to decorate cards and more.
Make Your Own Stickers (Adult and Children (6 years and above)
- Learn how to use labels to make you decorative stickers.
- Class Size: 4-6pax 8.
Oil &Acrylic Painting (Vera Leininger), Arte De Visuelle & Painting
& Sculpture for Children Course instructor :
Vera Leininger (firehorse2966@yahoo.com,
HP 98922116) ACRYLIC AND OIL.
Basics Duration: 8 Sessions (2
hours each session weekly) Date and Time: Tuesday or
Thursday 10am-12pm or 12pm-2pm Class size: 1-6 Fee: $390, special rates
for students - Material:
acrylic and oil colours (excl.) Introduction and basics:
Knowledge of materials, colours and their effects in comparison, structure of
paintings, their analytical and practical design. On this basis, the participants
will develop their ideas and express their special creative abilities in their
own projects in acrylic and oil. OIL ON CANVAS.
Advanced Duration: 6 Sessions (2
hours each session) Date and Time: Monday or
Wednesday 10am-12pm or 12pm-2pm Class size: 1-4 Fee: $370, special rates
for students Material: oil colours, canvas (excl.) After an analysis of few
paintings of this and the last centuries in Europe (van Gogh, S. Dali, E. Macke)
and according to the divergent styles, the participants will be conducted to
create their own painting in oil on canvas. The sessions consider the individual
creativity of each participant, who should develop her/his own artistic style.
PAINTING AND
SCULPTURE CLASS FOR CHILDREN Duration: 10 Sessions (2
hours each session weekly) Date and Time: Monday, Tuesday
or Wednesday 4pm-6pm Class size: 1-8 Fee: $470 Material: inclusive
The course aims supporting
and developing of the individual creativity of the children. They will learn
how to use different materials (chalk, watercolour, goacho, acrylic, modelling
clay, clay) and under the guidance they will create a project on their own in
every session. At the end of the course a small exhibition of their projects
will be arranged. Duration, date and time,
class size: by arrangement Venue: 5A Kim Keat Lane
(MRT Novena, Bus 131 or 124), Museums, Galleries, or at your location Fee: $70 for 2 hours, variable
rates according to number of lessons, private and company rates Instructor:
Individual and intense theoretical
and practical consultations and instructions for those who want to know more
about the fine & visual arts, their history and their effects. For those
who are eager to find their way to express their own personal creativity. With
instructions and support how to use the variety of standard materials and discovering
new materials, and how to prepare exhibitions of own projects in an online gallery.
Instructor Details VERA LEININGER was born
in Prague, studied in Germany, conferred a doctorate exam there and was teaching
as a research assistant at the University of Cologne. After writing a historical
drama "Redeemed Through Sin" (1999) which was evaluated in Chesterfield,
Slamdance and Moondance competitions, Vera participated in several workshops
at the Kölner Filmhaus. Following a TV-author-trainee-programme at the
Storycompany in Cologne, she was working for the international film production
company Gemini Film. Her principle responsibilities were the evaluation of screenplays
and the development of English-language feature film productions, especially
for the Hollywood agents, producers and co-producers. Since September of this
year she has been running her own scriptdoctoring, consulting and development
company Firehorse MovieArtsMedia. Besides managing her projects on painting
and short movies, she is writing a TV-thriller-pilot "Shout at the Devil". Vera attended the painting,
drawing and sculpture class of the academic painter Helga Hošková
for several years and participated in exhibitions of the Academy of Arts for
youths in Prague. On the background of the practical handcraft training in her
youth, Vera's creativity in fine arts shows correlation to her occupation with
visual and cinematic arts. Her main emphasis on painting and arts is a combination
of postmodern expressionism and surrealism - "dreaming ideas in colours".
- An introductory class for the beginningto intermediate stamper and covers various
simple techniques to make elegant and exciting stamped items quickly and easily.
- Duration: 2x2hr
- Cost: $160 (in studio), $120 (own location)
- Embellishments and ways to use them to dress your cards.
- For the intermediate stamper who has some familiarity with stamping & wants to learn new
techniques and ideas.
- Duration: 3x2hr
- Cost: $210 (in studio), $180 (own location)
- For the advanced stamper who wants to make special gift itemsusing various paper
craft techniques.
- Duration: 3x2hr
- Cost: $210 (in studio), $180 (own location)
- Duration: 1x1.5hr
- Cost: $45 (in studio), $35 (own location)
- Duration: 1x1.5hr
- Cost: $45 (in studio), $35 (own location)
- Lessons can be scheduled on Sundays and weekdays evenings
- All material needed are included to complete class projects. Instruction sheets
are given at the end of each class to review all the techniques and projects
completed during the course.
- Differenc in fees (studio vs own loaction)is to pay for rental of studio space
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"ARTE DE VISUELLE". Creative individual training and consultations
