Sydney

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Craft

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Paper Craft and Ink

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Calligraphy and Brush Lettering

Sign Painting Lettering Class

Gaston the painter’s intro to signpainting

5.0 (20)

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6 hours

12 to 60 $195

Sydney

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Craft

•

Paper Craft and Ink

•

Calligraphy and Brush Lettering

What you'll do

Get ready for some serious signwriting with one of the coolest signpainters in Australia!

In this class, Gaston will show you insights into the craft of signpainting, sharing plenty tips, tricks, and techniques to get you started as a painter — or add to your own skillset.

In this fun, action packed day if painting, you will learn all the basic knowledge and skills required to start painting your own signs and learn a bunch about design and lettering along the way.

Topics covered include:

Essential signpainting materials Paint mixing and brush paletting, and proper brush care Basic brush strokes Intro to letter styles- casual, block and script Transfer techniques – learn different ways of transferring your own designs onto different surfaces. Create your own design! Learn how to copose and sketch out a design from scratch.

Please note: This class requires at least 5 students to run. In the unlikely event that we don't get this number of students, we'll cancel the class and fully refund you and inform you via email, so please watch your email a few days prior to the class

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What you'll get

What to bring

Suitable for

This class is perfect for beginners - no prior experience is needed.

This class is great for a birthday or hens party.

Location

Work-Shop HQ - 188 Princes Hwy, Arncliffe NSW

This venue is within walking distance from Arncliffe Station station (800m).

Your teacher

Gaston the Painter

5.0 (20)

Gaston the Painter is a Melbourne-based Signwriter and Lettering Artist. He has been designing letterforms for over 8 years, transitioning from the world of graffiti into graphic design and then traditional signwriting.

After cutting his teeth by skating around town chalking up blackboards, Gaston ventured into designing logos, typefaces, products, hosting type events, and now travelling the globe teaching his lettering and signpainting workshops.

You can see Gaston’s work on his Instagram. Come get messy and talk letters with him!

Your host

Work-Shop

4.9 (4,359)

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Work-Shop is a creative concept that will broaden your horizons and help you unleash your inner awesome. We provide affordable short courses in life skills and alternative art. We’ve teamed up with Australia’s brightest creative minds to share their knowledge and help teach you a new skill. From 3D printing and stencil art through to music and gardening – life skills and personal development through to cooking doughnuts and mushroom foraging, we offer a broad range of fun and creative short courses to suit our time poor lives. We will inspire you to pick up that pen, paintbrush, hammer or sewing machine and flick the switch that will kickstart a whole new way of life.

Community values lie at the heart of our project. We collaborate with local artists and industry experts to teach classes and utilise local suppliers for any materials needed. We also provide a creative environment for emerging artists to produce and sell work, and meet like minded individuals. Work-Shop will be a space for everyone, with a rotating schedule of art shows, information nights on local issues and a whole range of events and community initiatives.

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