PRIVATE CHILDRENS WORKSHOPS

Your child's genius is their masterpiece

From 18 months old: Just like our private adult workshops, we offer exciting art experiences for chidren. We work with children as young as 18 months old as this is when they can best start to follow instructions and be engrossed for hours in our specially developed children's creative process. We use professional paints on gallery quality canvas and can create templates so your child produces stunning results to be loved for a lifetime.

School aged children: Older children who are serious about art can express themselves in a way that is unacceptable or simply not achievable at school and/or external art classes ie throwing paint like Jackson Pollock.

For parents, displaying their child's gallery quality artwork in their home or office can embued great feelings of pride, though nothing surpasses the child's own pride.

LATEST FEW PROJECTS

'My Super Duper Fab Art'

Client brief - Colleen, who had already commissioned Life Is Rich and enjoyed the experience so much, decided her son Aemon, who was soon to turn 12, should enjoy a private children's art workshop too, our fabulous Little Pro session!

Our Ssrategy - In discussing with Aemon what he would like to paint and keeping in mind his room decor, Aemon was quite adamant that he wanted to learn how to do splats and go wild. Fair enough! Colleen made mention of Aemon's cartoon drawings (as seen in the slides) and Sharron suggested a merger of splatty background and then see what story could unfold so that Aemon could incorporate his cartoons.

The outcome - It was a great day at the studio. Aemon did go wild and even scored himself a very special splatter professional artist's tool of his very own. We adore this artwork! Our workshops are specifcally designed for all those kids who want to experience this and feel they can't do it in an art class - give Tailored Artworks a call, we are more than happy to oblige!

'Butterfly Dreaming'

Client brief - Jessica is a lucky little girl. She has a lovely life near the sea at Redcliffe and a great backyard with a pirate island in it. She plays amongst the swaying palms and watches the butterflies flitter about in the breezy morning sunlight. Her parents decided Jessica was such a good little girl that she deserved a special painting for her birthday to go in her bedroom and, together with Sharron, designed a surprise artwork all about her childhood to reflect upon when older.

Our strategy - Sharron did the usual thing, lots of thumbnail designs at their appointment, research of butterflies, drafting the design carefully and masking it off to make painting easier for Jess, even colour coding it so she could have more independence during her session.

The outcome - Jess told her parents it was the best birthday present ever.

'Josephines' Rainbow'

Client brief - Mark and Kim were expecting their second child and waited to find out its sex before we worked with Josephine on her painting for the baby's room. Now that's planning at it's finest!  Kim loved and knew Josephine also loved rainbows and butterflies, so she asked us to create art in this theme.

Our strategy - One of Sharron's talents is designing and preparing artworks for very young children like Josephine to be able to paint ... in a day! So for Jospehine's workshop, Sharron prepared a fully masked canvas with a list of steps all organised knowing that by about mid afteroon Josephine would be quite tired!

The outcome - "dear Sharron, Josephine was so excited to make something for her baby sister and had such a wonderful time painting with you.  I couldn't believe how captivated she was and how much of the painting is actually her work with your wonderful and patient guidance.  Josephine is very proud whenever someone comes to visit to show them her painting she did for her baby sister Stella.  We will defininately love to do this with my girls again."    Kim Harper