Paint Your Pet Class

Sip wine and paint your pooch at this hands-on river view studio in Claremont!



3 hours Location Claremont Class size 1 to 14 (public classes), 5 to 30   $140 (Afterpay available)

Join us for an absolutely lively, hilarious, and fun-loving workshop where you get to paint your beloved pooch! An all-encompassing, whimsical approach to painting your much-loved pooch, cat, rabbit or other much-loved pet!
This is a one-off, acrylic-based workshop. No experience is needed as Louise will guide you every step of the way to painting your beloved pet. She has 30 years of experience as an oil painter, teacher and facilitator, so you will get the best guidance you can possibly receive.
If you like to paint in a beautiful river view studio, listening to the birds and the waves lapping at the shores, whilst catching a glimpse of the passing pods of dolphins, then look no further than this paint and sip class.
This is the perfect idyllic location to simply let go at your easel and let life pass you by for a few hours, while you create!

Upcoming dates for Paint Your Pet Class

Times are Perth time. Dates and prices as of 21 Oct 2026, 7:17am; availability and price are confirmed live when booking on this page.

2 upcoming dates between 24 Oct 2026 and 14 Nov 2026.

  • Sat 24 Oct 2026, 9:30am-12:30pm
  • Sat 14 Nov 2026, 9:30am-12:30pm
What you'll get
  • All art materials, apart from your canvas.
  • Nibbles, tea or coffee or soft drink.
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Knowledge required
Beginners welcome.
What to bring
One canvas 24 x 24 inch or 26 x 26 inch.
Suitable for

This class is great for individuals and couples as well as for a date idea, team building activity, Christmas party, birthday or hens party.

Suitable for adults, and kids (minimum 9 years old).

An adult must accompany any attending kids (the adult may observe for free).

This experience would also be a unique gift for her, gift for mum, Xmas gift or gift for couples.

Location

30 Victoria Avenue, Claremont WA

Ample free parking down the driveway beside out beautiful Swan River.

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Recent reviews of Paint Your Pet Class

  • 5/5 from Lisa Howells, attended Aug 2026: Went to paint your pet workshop with my mum and 3 friends for her birthday and we all loved it! Varying degrees of artistic experience and talent in our group, but everyone produced something we were happy with in a fun, relaxed and scenic setting. Thanks Louise, it was a perfect morning for our group.
  • 5/5 from Scott Lavender, attended Jul 2026: I thoroughly enjoyed this class! Louise was a fantastic hostess, very welcoming and helpful! Would definitely recommend! Thankyou!
  • 5/5 from Kirstie Bullock, attended Jan 2026: Most amazing class! Louise was incredible, so helpful, while making sure everything felt authentic to us. I couldn’t recommend this class (or any of Louise’s classes) highly enough.
  • 5/5 from Sarah Fatt, attended Jan 2026: Just had the best time at this class. Thanks Louise for making this so much fun and to the lovely bunch of people who shared it with us
  • 5/5 from Rowena Mackiewicz, attended Jan 2026: Relaxing class in beautiful setting. Our teacher was very good at getting the best from us. We were all very pleased (and surprised) with our paintings.
  • 5/5 from Samantha Benn, attended Nov 2025: Wonderful workshop with Louise. Louise was so skilled and supportive, guiding us to create our paintings to get something we were really happy with. So much better than a workshop where everyone paints the same thing! Louise's communication prior was excellent and she warmly welcomed us into her beautiful home art space. Highly recommended.
  • 5/5 from Donelle Marcar, attended Nov 2025: We loved creating our own interpretations of our dog on canvas. Big thank you to Louise for being a fantastic host, encouraging us to try different painting techniques and providing us with guidance when we asked for it.
  • 5/5 from Matthew Schofield, attended Aug 2025: Louise is an amazing artist and talented human. We had loads of fun in such a warm, welcoming studio. Highly recommend her classes to anybody looking for something unique to do. Top classy
  • 5/5 from Catherine Wade, attended Jan 2025: An absolutely brilliant class! So much fun in a beautiful setting overlooking the river. Everyone was very friendly and non-judgmental. Louise was really knowledgeable and helped to get the best out of the budding artists without taking over. We immediately booked for the Oceanic Abstract workshop!
  • 5/5 from Chantal Concetta, attended Nov 2024: I had so much fun painting my dog while chatting with the girls. The studio had this beautiful river view, it was very relaxing.
  • 5/5 from Victoria Brook, attended Aug 2024: I had so much fun, chilled relaxing atmosphere. Necessary guidance with colour, textures. A genuine, authentic experience. Thoroughly recommend
  • 5/5 from Kelly Niclair, attended Aug 2024: My friend and I had a great time at this paint class. I haven’t painted in decades but ended up with a painting that actually resembles my dog! Louise was very welcoming and encouraging throughout the process. The river views were stunning. Highly recommend her class.
  • 5/5 from Carley Morrell, attended Jul 2024: A very relaxed evening of playful painting of our beloved doggies. Oodles of creative freedom, support and lashings of delicious homemade nibbles. Thank you, Louise!
  • 5/5 from Grace Au, attended Jul 2024: My son and I enjoyed the painting class (and the delicious snacks) very much. The studio with stunning views of the river is excellent, not to mention the hundreds of paints to choose from. Meeting people with lots of love for their pooch is a bonus! Truly amazing experience
  • 5/5 from Tara Willey, attended Apr 2024: 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
  • 5/5 from Julia Conway, attended 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.
  • 5/5 from Kaz Brittain, attended Jan 2024: Lovely evening. Very chilled and free to paint however you like. Gentle guidance and support.
  • 5/5 from Jenelle Lawrence, attended May 2023: Awesome night, very relaxed atmosphere with plenty of laughs. A great way to spend a Friday evening.
Your teacher

Louise Farnay
Louise Farnay

4.9 (39)

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.

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