Palette Knife Painting with Ashley Frost

Learn palette knife painting techniques to achieve tone, depth and texture in your paintings. The workshop is taught by award winning artist Ashley Frost who is known for his palette knife paintings with compositions that use light to capture a fleeting moment in time. Students will paint up to two large paintings using a palette knife while also learning about composition, colour selection and colour mixing.

This class will transform the way you paint! Suitable for anyone who has been painting for a while but would like to learn how to introduce the palette knife into their tool kit. If you have reached a creative block, feel stale or need some technical intervention in the way you paint, this might be the transformation you need. Whether you work in oils or acrylics this one day workshop will give you new skills and confidence to apply to your art practice.

Image credits: Ashley Frost

Art Est. Art School is a dynamic creative hub for the visual arts in Leichhardt, the heart of Sydney’s inner west. Founder and Director Jennifer McNamara established Art Est in 2008 with a vision to create an art space where students of all ages and abilities can discover their artistic potential in a professional studio environment with practicing artists. Art Est has gained a reputation for providing quality tuition in a nurturing and relaxed environment.

Our spacious, light-filled warehouse is an inspiring art space featuring four teaching studios and gallery space and a brand new dedicated ceramics studio. Our professionally managed and purpose built pottery and ceramics studio is equipped with 8 pottery wheels (Venco), dedicated handbuilding stations, slab roller, extruder, glaze and kiln rooms. The studio has 3 electric kilns and all firing occurs on the premises managed by the studio coordinator. A good selection of glazes are available for student use. Clay is also available for purchase by students. View our ceramics and pottery classes

Art Est. is conveniently located within walking distance from Light Rail stations, as well as plenty of on site and unmetered street parking. All our tutors are practicing artists and experts in their genre and medium. You can click on the tutor’s name in the course information to find out more about their qualifications, art practice and the courses or workshops they are currently teaching at Art Est. More.