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ClassBento money-back guarantee
Our mission is to improve mental wellbeing through our workshops and experiences. We curate our teachers and hosts carefully to ensure that they are of high quality.
That's why we provide a money-back guarantee*: If you're unsatisfied with this experience, just leave it at least 20 minutes before it ends, and tell us (the ClassBento team) the reason for your dissatisfaction within 4 hours of that time, and we'll provide you with a refund.
* We may choose to limit our refund per customer at $1000. In some rare cases, we may also require you to show us your photo ID before we process the refund.
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A: 4 x 3 hours, $90 - $300 per guest ($90 for Per 3 hours session; $300 for 4 sessions paid in advance)
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Day 1 Thumbnail Sketchs
We kick off with a high-energy dive into your sketchbook. Using personal photos, gallery views, or pure imagination, you’ll create a rapid series of thumbnail sketches. The goal isn’t perfection—it’s speed. By working quickly, you’ll bypass the analytical brain and silence the inner critic, discovering raw visual ideas that serve as the spark for your creative journey.
Day 1 Create a Textured Black and White Painting
Using your chosen thumbnail as a map, we move to a stretched canvas to build a bold, tactile foundation. Working with black and white acrylics and thick modelling paste, you’ll use large colour shapers to 'sculpt' the surface. Because the tools are too large for fine detail, you are forced to work broadly and intuitively. This nearly random process keeps you out of the 'tight' analytical mindset, allowing you to access your deep creative brain through thick, expressive texture
Day 2 Use AI Images to Stimulate Ideas (note the Image Is AI Generated)
As your work evolves, we enter an iterative, experimental phase. To push your boundaries, I introduce a cutting-edge creative partner: AI. By capturing your work-in-progress, we generate unique variations that act as a ‘visual brainstorm.’ These AI-assisted insights don't tell you what to paint—they serve as a catalyst, sparking fresh possibilities you might never have imagined. Use technology to fuel your traditional craft.
Day 2 Paint in Colour Using Acrlylics
Now, we introduce color into the monochrome textures, using acrylics—and even fluorescents—to breathe life into the work. Continuing with color shapers rather than brushes, you’ll drag paint across the peaks and valleys of your textured canvas, letting the relief create unexpected patterns. This is an intuitive dialogue: you learn to listen as the painting 'talks' to you. If you feel lost at this stage, embrace it—that’s simply your analytical brain stepping aside so your silent, creative intuition can take over the work.
Day 3 Continue in Colour Acrylics
As the painting evolves, you’ll solve visual problems by changing perspective—stepping back, turning the canvas, and listening to the work. I will work alongside you, occasionally intervening to demonstrate techniques or 'break' areas that have become too precious. In our collaborative environment, we let go of the ego to remember: it isn’t 'your' painting, it is 'The Painting'. By destroying ‘safe’ areas, we free you to rediscover the authentic expression hidden underneath.
Day 4 Oils, Glazing a Finidshed Work
In the final stage, we transition to oil paints and brushes to bring the work to its conclusion. Using quick-drying alkyd oils, you’ll master the art of glazing—applying thin, luminous films of colour that settle into the 'valleys' of your texture to create depth and atmosphere. This is the moment for refinement: you’ll use fine brushes to enhance textures and add precise details where the painting calls for them. Watch as your work truly comes alive, evolving from a raw experiment into a sophisticated, personal expression of your creative journey.
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What you'll get
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Beginner-friendly.
Session repeats
This class series runs over 4 consecutive sessions, at the same time every week.
Suitable for
This class is great for individuals and couples as well as for a date idea, birthday or hens party.
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I have worked as a town planner, a Geologist in East Africa and Australia, a senior manager in IT for BHP and Woodside and a management consultant. After studying for a Diploma of Art at the prestigious Claremont School of Art in Perth, I started working as a professional artist in 1994. Since then I have had countless exhibitions. I have sold well over 1000 paintings and my work is represented in collections around the world. I teach painting at my studio/gallery in the Perth Hills and our arts guest house in NE Thailand by the Mekong River (Thailand Painting Holidays). I teach techniques including oil pastel and inks and modelling paste/acrylic/quick-drying oils and glazing. My main emphasis is on helping students to loosen up and paint creatively from imagination.My own paintings are in acrylic and oil on canvas or cotton rag paper, incorporating a wide range of techniques from rough brushing, in which I drag paint across the canvas, to the glow of multiple translucent glazes. Recently, I have been working in digital painting mediums, experimenting, extending my range and style.
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