Sunshine Coast Art Group runs a number of events every year. Join us for vibrant markets and exhibitions. Our annual Soup + Soul event in July is a well-established community favourite.
Course objectives:
During this course the trainer will:
By the end of this course, the student will:
HAND BUILDING FOR BEGINNERS
Join us for our extensive beginner's course in hand building with clay. Over 8 Saturday afternoons, you will learn a range of pottery techniques including making pinch pots, building with coils, slab construction and moulds.
Once you have mastered building we will cover various decoration, design and texture techniques using underglazes, dipping and brush on glazes.
The course cost is $335 for non-members and $295 for members. The cost covers eight 3 hour workshops, membership while the course is in progress and a bag of clay.
For additional enquiries email course leader Deb here.
Availability: 10 spaces - For members/non-members.
Cost: $300 for members and $350 non-members.
When: Every Sunday morning. Starts 8th February until 29 March 2026.
Weeks 1-6, 9.30-1.30 and weeks 7-8 9.30-12.30. Studio opens 15 minutes before class starts.
Recommended for: For all beginners to wheel throwing. No experience is necessary.
Training objectives:
It is expected that each student should be able to make at least one of: a cylinder shaped mug, a plate, a bowl and a lidded bowl by the end of this course.
Included in the workshop cost is one best piece from each category which will be bisque fired by the studio, then glazed in class by the student, before having its final glaze firing by the studio. If students would like additional pieces fired, normal firing costs will be incurred at SCart, or outside firing services can sourced by the student.
Thursday life drawing in the art studio and is an untutored event
Sessions are every 2 weeks
Please arrive at 9.30am for a 10.00am start
Cost per session:
Members: $20
Non-members: $30
Please pay with cash to the group leader on the day.
Chairs and easels provided please bring your own art materials and equipment
Saturday life drawing in the art studio and is untutored
Held on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month
Untutored sessions for members
Untutored session for members
An art class hosted by Madeline Herbert.
Beachscape painting with Josh Wright
In the Beachscape Painting class, participants will learn the essential techniques to start and finish a painting. They will understand the principles of 2D and 3D perspective and landscape, enabling them to create depth and realism in their work.
Josh will take you each step of the way to create your own unique artwork inspired by our local Sunshine Coast beaches.
Workshop includes:
• All Materials (Paints, brushes, and stretched canvas)
• Techniques to start and finish a painting
• Learning perspective and landscape
• Contemporary painting techniques
• Values and Colour theory
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Self guided sewing group
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This is an informal self-managed group for members interested in practising portrait painting. All mediums are welcome.
Members can either work on their own project or practice their skills with a volunteer sitter.
Table and standing easels are available. Please bring your own materials.
New member information session
This information session is for people interested in joining the Sunshine Coast Art Group pottery and art groups.
We have new member intakes 3 to 4 times a year. At the session we will give potential new members details about how we operate and everything you need to know to become a member.
New members to the pottery will also have to undertake a half day induction.
This 8 week course is recommended for potters that have undertaken an introduction wheel throwing course and have 6-12 months’ wheel throwing experience. Students must already be able to centre clay and create simple forms on the wheel.
The course represents an opportunity for students to progress and consolidate their skills to produce a variety of more complex forms with growing confidence.
As a “project-based” skill-development course, it focuses on learning and refining skills such as working with larger amounts of clay, throwing taller, shaping/bellying and collaring-in, repetitive throwing, throwing and turning feet, faceting & carving, handles: pulling, hand-built and extruded, shaping rims and spouts, as well as creating assemblages from thrown forms.
Projects covered include high, medium and low-profile bowls, “sets” of cups, chip’n dip platters, one-piece lidded containers, and tall necked bottle forms.
At the conclusion of the course, students throw and assemble a teapot or can focus on another project of their choice.
Most sessions will commence with weighing out and kneading of clay, followed by a demonstration of the lesson’s targeted skill/s and projects.
Students will then work at their own wheel, practising the skills and using the time to complete as much of the project as they can with teacher supervision and assistance.
Thrown forms will be taken home by the student so they can manage appropriate drying of the work for processing/turning the following week.
Whilst most projects can be completed in course time, it is expected that students will spend some extra time (either at home or the SCArt studio) refining, practising or finishing projects.
In the first half of the course, students will be iencouraged to try a number of extension activities and projects:
During the first few weeks, students will have time to discuss, with the tutor, the proposed direction of their future ceramic skills and interests, to develop, with assistance, a potential weekly proposal for the second half of the course.
The tutor will then work with students at this time, both individually and with the group, helping them to achieve their goals whilst challenging them to extend their throwing and design skills. A variety of potential surface finishing skills and techniques will be considered in discussion for the final work.
Learn, practice, share workshops with different one-off topics. Taught by experienced studio members
PICASSO YOURSELF!! With Rebecca Bateman
Have a fun evening, BYOG and If you like Picasso, you’ll love this workshop! Learn how to turn a photograph or selfie into a Picasso-inspired painting using acrylics. In this beginner-friendly, step-by-step tutorial, you’ll explore how to draw and paint in the Cubist style, block in bold shapes, and create your own self-portrait masterpiece. If you enjoy abstract art and have always wanted to try Cubism, this fun lesson will inspire you to give it a go.
ALL MATERIALS SUPPLIED
Contact us:
info@sunshinecoastartgroup.com.au
Address:1 William Parker Place Buderim 4556