Portrait Painting
Full courses for adults run for eight weeks at a cost of $250 plus materials. All courses are for leisure time skills development only and are not linked to any sort of formal qualification.

Course Content
During the course I will be teaching you how to turn a printed image into a portrait painted in both oil and acrylic paint together. I have been teaching this process for five years now with a 100% success rate. Students who have been through the first course generally like to take further courses with me so that they can carry on developing their skills and make more informed decisions in their work.

Classes begin on February 8th 2010 onwards.

Class Times:
Please include the day and times you wish to attend a two hour session on the enrollment form (click to download).

9 - 11 am	................	Tues, Thurs, Sat
1 - 3 am	................	Tues, Thurs, Sat
7 - 9 am	................	Tues, Thurs.

Tailored Courses
if you have a particular area of interest differing from portrait painting, eg: still life, landscape, seascape, street scenes, painting or drawing styles etc. let me know and I will tailor a course especially for you (no extra cost).

Recommended Materials.
These are available from Gordon Harris or at the prices below which include 20% discount if purchased through myself.

1 set of Windsor and Newton water based oil paints ...........	$67.00
1 set of acrylic paints ................................................................	$29.99
1 12x 12cm canvas from Geoffs Emporium ..........................	$6.50
1 set of nylon tipped brushes for Geoffs Emporium ..............	$25.00
1 canvass ...................................................................................	$6.50
Paper Towels, cotton buds and plastic plates ........................	$0.00
Total materials cost ...................................................................	$134.99

The paints are good quality and good value and will see you through many paintings.

Please e.mail niki_phillips@xtra.co.nz to place your order, or if you already have acrylics and non water based oil paint, these will be fine to use.

Resources available:
For those attending classes at Jervois Road, there is a mini library with many art books available for research as well as the internet if desired. I am also able to project different aspects of interest and imagery pertinent to the teaching via the internet on to the wall (large format) of the teaching room.

Teenagers and Teenagers and Parents

$250 plus materials (listed on Adult Classes page, plus cost of LED lights.) per course for a teenager accompanied by a parent, both parent and teenager will create an art work, either together working on the same portrait, or working separately on individual projects. The parent can learn realistic portrait painting, while the teenager learns to paint their favourite celebrity or animation character and complete the painting by making it truly unique by attaching solar powered LED lights, which means that the painting will light up at night all by itself!!! Just imagine one of the Avatar characters with tiny green lights in their eyes!! You will also learn how to 'wire up' your painting to make these little lights glow (with parents and tutor supervision).

This is a wonderful opportunity for parents and teenagers to have special time together. Cost for a teenager attending by themselves is $175 plus materials per 8 week course.

Class times for parents and teenagers
Arrival time anywhere between:
3.30 and 4.30..........Mon to Fri and Sat(pm), Sun(am + pm)
Students stay for one and a half hours.

Resources available:
For those attending classes at Jervois Road, there is a mini library with many art books available (including a Kids and Youth Art section) for research as well as the internet if desired. I am also able to project different aspects of interest and imagery pertinent to the teaching via the internet on to the wall (large format) of the teaching room.

Class Times:
Please include the day and times you wish to attend a one and half hour session on the enrollment form (click to download).

Class availability
will be updated regularly one the 'Classes Time Table' (see the top of this page for the link). If there is a spare place available in the opposite course at the beginning of the courses, students may enroll doing the course of their choosing and the two courses will run side by side.

Adult Drawing Courses

Full adult courses run for 8 weeks at a cost of $250 plus materials per course, $250 plus materials for a teenager accompanied by an adult and $175 plus materials for a teenager attending by themselves.

Students can start at any time during the term and their course will simply roll over to the next one if they start later, so no classes are missed and the student gets full value for money.

Tailored Courses
if you have a particular area of interest, eg: botanical, landscape, design graphics etc, let me know and I will tailor a course especially for you (no extra cost).

Materials:
Please bring A3 (or larger) sized cartridge paper, HB, 2B and 6B pencils and a rubber.

Class Times (Adults):
Please put the day and times you would be able to attend a 2 hour lesson or 1 and half hour lesson for Teenagers/Parents on the enrollment form (click to download)(Adults)

Adult classes will run from:

9 - 11 am	................	Mon, Wed
1 - 3 pm	................	Mon, Wed
7 - 9 pm	................	Wed

Teenagers/Parents classes will run from:

3:30 - 5 pm	................	Mon - Fri
1 - 3 pm	................	Saturday
1-3pm / 7-9pm	................	Sunday

Resources available:
For those attending classes at Jervois Road, there is a mini library with many art books available for research as well as the internet if desired. I am also able to project different aspects of interest and imagery pertinent to the teaching via the internet on to the wall (large format) of the teaching room.

Please visit the 'Night Classes' page for a weekly lesson breakdown.

Online Courses in Painting and drawing for Adults

I have been teaching these courses at Community Education night classes for five years now, as well as for two years online. For those who are not able to attend classes at the physical address, an online full course of pre recorded live lessons is available at a cost of $250 for an eight week course.

I give many comprehensive drawing demonstrations in the pre-recorded lessons. I am also available to communicate with you via Skype and by you e.mailing your work to me which I comment on, print out and draw on top of re-scan and send back to you so that you can see how to develop the work further. Online courses are a lot of fun and just as successful as attending a class.

Soon I will be introducing international conferencing classes where there will be two or three students in different countries all attending the same online course and able to talk to each other as well as myself during online class time.

Alternatively you may wish to attend a class live using skype, in which case you will be visible to the other students and you will have a place at the tables through my laptop. You will be able to communicate both with myself and the other students as I have a wireless microphone which means you can hear what I am saying at all times and you can speak and be heard when ever you want to just the same as the other students. You will be in your own studio, but you can show me your work via webcam as well as e.mailing me scans which I can help you with. I have been doing this for two years already, it is a huge success and everyone loves the high-tech novelty value of this approach to distance learning.

Life Drawing Courses for Adults (Not Running Term 1)
Courses run for eight weeks at a cost of $250 per course. Professional painter / illustrator and tutor James Wakelin will teach you many skills to help you create beautiful fresh looking drawings.

Please visit www.illustr8.co.nz to view his highly competent work. Enjoy a relaxing class Sundays, 9:30~11:30 am or 1~3 pm according to demand.

Life Drawing is invaluable for improving observation and rendering of shape, proportion and form. Whilst seen as a formal discipline it is both enjoyable and invaluable as a learning tool.

Term 1 - 8th Feb onward

One Day Painting Workshops for Tourists visiting New Zealnd

If you are an overseas visitor spending some time in Auckland and would like to take home a painting symbolising New Zealand, come to a one day painting work shop and learn how to paint it yourself!!

Kenneth and Caroline visiting from Singapore spent a real fun day with me both extending their painting skills and creating original little paintings to take back home with them! Caroline's painting is of Rangitoto Island which is our strongest symbol of Auckland as it sits right in the Auckland harbour and Kenneth's painting of a fern frond symboling 'new life' originally comes from our Maori culture but now has become a symbol for all New Zealanders.

Cost: $250 per person, all materials and morning and afternoon tea provided.
A variety of cafes to enjoy inside or outside lunch-time dining are situated right accross the road.(not included in cost)