Cloud Painting Masterclass

Shape a cloud-washed landscape of your own, using the special airiness of soft pastels


Caroline Reid Artist
Caroline Reid Artist
Instagram followers 12k followers

3 hours Class size 1 to 2 guests    

  $290 (Afterpay & PayPal Pay in 4 available)

Join this hands-on soft pastel cloud-painting masterclass and work one-on-one with a master pastelliste to refine your technique. Together, you’ll explore the luminous language of clouds—how they drift, glow, gather, and dissolve—and learn to translate their movement and mood through expressive pastel work.
Guided personally by your instructor, you’ll discover how to layer velvety pigments, sculpt light with subtle transitions, and build depth through delicate shifts in value and colour. Whether you’re completely new to pastels or already developing your artistic voice, this intimate masterclass meets you exactly where you are, offering tailored insights to elevate your craft.
As you work, you’ll experiment with professional-grade materials and tools, gaining confidence in how to handle soft pastels with intention and sensitivity. The process is both meditative and invigorating—an invitation to slow down, observe deeply, and let your creativity breathe.
By the end of your session, you’ll leave with a beautifully realised cloudscape and a renewed sense of artistic clarity, along with techniques you can carry into all your future pastel work.
What you'll get
Personalised one on one tuition in the home studio of a master pastelliste and a finished cloudscape of their own.
Knowledge required
Beginner to intermediate.
What to bring
Bring your own local cloud photos so we can work on recording the sky where you live. Bring your own pastels if you have any. Specialised pastel paper and the use of high-quality pastels will be provided.
Location

Fraser, ACT

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Caroline Reid Artist
Caroline Reid Artist

Instagram followers 12k followers
female Women-owned

An Invitation to Paint What You Love
My art story began with ants.
When I was four or five, I remember lying flat on my belly in the hot, sandy dirt of the Western Australian bush, mesmerised by hundreds of red bull ants racing around their underground city. I watched them meet and gesture with their stick-like legs, disappear down tunnels, and re-emerge carrying twigs, leaves, and heavy clods of wet clay — which, in my imagination, they used like cement to build their world.
I was utterly absorbed. I wanted to know what was happening beneath the surface — so much so that I poked around with a stick, until the ants burst out in outrage to defend their home. When one bit my big toe (and if you know bull ants, you’ll understand), I ran howling back to the house.
As Mum patched me up, I couldn’t stop talking — about the ants, the tunnels, the hidden chambers underground. She simply said, “Draw it for me.”
So I did. A horizon line. Wriggling tunnels beneath. Stick-leg ant people. Balls of dirt. Eggs and baby ants tucked away in secret places.
That moment felt like magic.
Since then, I’ve never stopped being fascinated by the land — by dirt and mud and water, by what lies on the surface and what flows unseen beneath it. Earth makes me feel grounded. At peace. At home.
That’s the spirit behind my masterclasses.
I invite you to come and paint where you live — your own land, your own light, your own textures and stories. Together, we’ll slow down, look closely, experiment freely, and translate the character of place into expressive, personal work. You don’t need to travel far to find inspiration. It’s already beneath your feet.
Come and explore it with me.

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