Art Workshops – Drawing Together

Hey kindred spirit…

 

• Did you just love drawing and painting when you were younger?
• When you see a child paint, do you wish you could access that focus, curiosity and creativity again – even now you’re an adult?
• Does thinking about a session of drawing and painting – dancing with colour – light you up?
• Do you have a goal to build more creativity and ease into your life?

Yes?

Perhaps a creative-session-where-you-don’t-have-to-pack-up-afterwards sounds like your kind of treat …

… read on …

Creativity.
We don’t have to do it alone.
We were never meant to.
~ Brene Brown

You’re warmly invited to join us for (the last in this season of):

Drawing and Painting Lessons

What would it be like? I’ll start the lesson off with a demonstration, which will give your adult brain something to work with, and help you feel you’re not facing the blank page alone… Then, you get to make your very own picture! This is a nourishing way to top up your mental health cup, and perhaps meet kindred spirits, too.

Take some time for you

Take a couple of hours to claim back your part of the narrative in 2026!

Get in touch with your inner child and wake up both sides of your brain!

Support your self care practises, and keep gentle company with your inner self again!

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to
learn how to do it.”
~ Vincent Van Gogh

 

What are your art workshops like, Tangerine Meg?

I’ll do a demonstration in real time, then be there while you – also in real time – create your very own picture!

Materials and process are akin to children’s art lessons, and will give you visual techniques to play with.

The session numbers are capped. We’ll have a maximum of just 8 participants, while we experiment with our new garden studio venue.

Attendants’ feedback will guide what I offer. Current feedback is that folks want to do Drawing and Painting and Women’s Art History lessons, approximately once per month. These are readily combined. We’ll also be experimenting with some comics exercises.

 

Join me and others on a journey to where art meets self care…

The world can present an array of chaos – apparently ever escalating – and we humans as always need down time to soothe and nourish our souls…

Previous students have commented:

“What a relaxing afternoon!  Escaping into the ‘art zone’, with Tangerine Meg’s expert demonstration and guidance we all created our own unique art.  Great ’therapy’, really enjoyed it and learnt some new skills too!”
~ Karen, Adelaide, SA

S from the Fleurieu says … the classes are: “informative, relaxing, challenging, creative”, noting that  “everyone sees things differently – every picture is different”. Another benefit was “meeting people from different backgrounds. Would she recommend the classes to others? Yes, they were “fun, relaxing, (and) confidence building”.

A retired teacher noted that “success (is) built in to every lesson.”

Other students say they enjoyed, “… filling the entire page and creating an entire work” and, the “… guided play to be fearless about creating ART”.”>

The details

• $45/session
• Materials to complete a painting of your own are included
• Simply turn up, dressed for the weather (with clothes which can happily get a smattering of craypas & paint on them, or wear a protective apron layer)
• BYO water bottle, & snacks if need be
• This series is for age 18 and over
• Minimum class size – will proceed with 4 or more booked in. Class size limited to just 8 people
• No homework!

Just put aside put aside 2 precious hours for yourself, to attend the session… plus buffer time to get there on time, ‘specially the first time

You might find yourself saying, “Wow, do I get to take this home?” :D

Put your Frida earrings on, maybe enlist a friend, & click the green View Product button to book your spot/s!

 

Why Tangerine Meg (yours truly) / a bit of bio stuff…

Your mess is your mission ~ Pace Smith

Don’t think I have this “… make time for your art practise…” bit down pat! It’s one of my life lessons, and one teaches best what one most needs to learn, right?

I’m a practising artist now – gently back after a sabbatical – and lucky me went to art lessons from the age of 7 with beloved SA Art World legend, Ruth Tuck! She invited me to help with the younger kids when I was at high school. For the next 10-ish years I attended Ruth’s adult classes, while assisting and later teaching the younger kids.

And I’ve studied Graphic Design. Twice. The first I completed, a Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication) which covered design principles beautifully yet was before computers were invented in every room of every building, let alone every pocket … After a change of pace and raising 2 boys – teaching for Ruth through almost all of it – I did the majority of an Advanced Diploma in Graphic Design to learn to apply computer magic to my design skills… You can see why my art style is ‘graphic’!

I’ve had 3 solo art exhibitions [1 – between the arrivals of my now adult sons; 2 – at Goolwa’s Old Police Station in 2016; and 3 – in SALA 2020 at Mockingbird Lounge, Glenelg], and too many group exhibitions to recount! I work from somewhere in Adelaide, with a playful, zoomy tabby cat as my studio companion.

I’d love to pass on to you some of the learnings and enjoyment I’ve been lucky enough to experience!

What art workshops are coming up?

The next one is: Saturday March 28, 2026. 10am – 12noon. Bookings now open.

I had some Friday dates open but no signups. If you’d like a Friday (or other day) session, gather 5-7 friends and message me and let’s see if we can set something up.

Held in the Tonsley area, South Australia. I’ll send the address after you book in.

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