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classes: Paint and Sip • Clay Sculpture and Hand Building • Oil Painting • Painting • Pottery
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Louise Farnay’s long artistic career spans well over 40 years of Art, Design, and Creativity. From international art and sculptural exhibitions, to her award-winning paintings, globally traveling exhibitions, and internationally sponsored artist workshops, her collectors are located on every curve of the globe. From her self-conceived global Handbag brand spanning sixteen years soared to international acclaim overnight, was personally acknowledged by Dame Vivienne Westwood, international models and movie stars, to her Art Teaching, Louise is also a qualified, practicing Art Therapist, to top it off.
LOUISE’S WORKSHOPS ARE LIKE NO OTHER! Always evolving, always fun, fulfilling and creative, always practicing a safe, non-judgmental environment, Louise’s workshops are highly personally rewarding. Students just keep returning and returning for more! Their results are clearly expressed on their faces; sheer joy, yet a cool, calm, beaming confidence with their creative outcomes.
Listed below are Louise’s various Workshops:
Paint Your Pooch - NEW! Acrylic based on canvas, plenty of textures, and guided brushwork, all you need bring is a photo of your pooch, or other furry friend. Louise, with her high energy, and creative career, including cartoon and caricature, facilitates you to an easy-to-understand practice, creating a loving expression of your pooch’s face, capturing each furry friend uniquely, individually, personality-filled as they are!
Oceanic Abstraction - Louise describes her unique discipline that she self-created as her ‘’fluid, dreamy, watery side, and emotional side.’’ Using all oil mediums, Louise will share her personal mastery of how she blends various oil mediums to create a dreamy, fluid and masterly skillful technique. This is like NO other workshop out there, and is very messy so wear your glad rags! This is a hugely calming process of going inward and just being with the paint. Your results will be completely individual, highly-rewarding, personal and unique.
Beach Bums - Louise expresses her “quirky, playful side” in this hugely popular FUN-FILLED workshop where she breaks down the human form into easy to paint shapes, so even if you’ve never painted before, you WILL master the figurative form like a pro! You will learn what and how to blend, mix, scrape and create real beach textures. This is acrylic painting process is highly therapeutic, relaxing fun. You’ll walk home with a canvas proud and ready to hang!
Hyper-Realism - Louise describes her photo-like accurate oil-based work as an extremely intense, challenging discipline. If you are a perfectionist and want to paint realism, this is for you! Louise describes this as her calm, introvert and highly focused trait of her character. You will learn how to measure figurative form traditionally, to get each body limb and part in proportion, before learning how to mix and blend, using a dry brush work-technique, she also taught herself. This requires extreme patience, around 100 hours per painting, and a want to learn how to master your skill to accurate perfection. Oil based mediums are used in this workshop. One-on-one or small groups up to four pax only.
Louise was lovely, very cruisey and easy to talk to. She is extremely talented and gave me great tips, encouragement and bubbly conversation. The view is beautiful too, overlooking the water, it’s a grea location. I had a blast! Thank you so much Louise, I will definitely be using what I learnt today going forward
Jessica Lucy Volich•
Mar 2024
Loved the atmosphere and the hands off but very supportive encouragement of Louise - I had a great time. Louise is very talented, clearly. I learnt to be a little more confident with my creativity and came away with a weird but wonderful painting. Definitely recommend.
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Thanks so much for coming to my workshop Jessica! It was so evident that you grew and evolved in confidence with your loosening of your brushstrokes during our workshop!
Julia Conway•
Feb 2024
It was a great experience and we were very surprised and pleased with with our results. Very relaxing and pleasant. Expert gentle guidance from an experienced art teacher and professional artist who encourages personal creativity. A lovely way to spend time and very good value. Many thanks.
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Thank you Julie! A lovely evening on all accounts; your incredible creativity, sun setting over the river, balmy breeze, a sip(!), great conversation and laughter too! Thank you Julia and May!
Amanda•
Jan 2024
My work team did this class as a wellbeing and team activity. Louise set the tone of relaxed fun, freedom and creativity. Our workshop was in Louise's home which was welcoming with river views, surrounded by a gallery of her art. Our artworks have been admired by and sparked the interest of other colleagues. Thanks Louise
Teacher's
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Thank you for such a glowing review Amanda, thank you so much!
You were a treat to host and facilitate in our creative, musical fun!
Kaz Brittain•
Jan 2024
Lovely evening. Very chilled and free to paint however you like. Gentle guidance and support.
Jenelle Lawrence•
May 2023
2 ClassBento workshops attended
Awesome night, very relaxed atmosphere with plenty of laughs.
A great way to spend a Friday evening.
Indya Golding•
Feb 2023
Just a good experience! Louise is amazing at what she does and is so friendly.
Paulus Han•
May 2022
Good, fun session. Louise was a good teacher. Hadn't painted since I was in primary school, but left really enjoying it
Sarah Hammond•
Mar 2022
Really great class! Louise gave guidance and help when needed to help us create our beach bums. It was a beautiful space to spend a morning painting! Will definitely do another of Louise’s classes
Sarah Maxwell•
Mar 2022
Such an amazing class ! Louise taught us how to paint like her own incredible work and she had such a friendly nature . Best Sunday morning ever ! Highly recommend
Had such a wonderful time doing this class. Louise was such a fantastic inspiring teacher. I have already booked another class with her.
The studio was set out well with everything we needed. Great value for money.
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