The Saturday Art Club- is designed for the younger ‘budding creatives’, this program focuses on having relaxing, social fun with art, crafting and creative play in a small group environment. This hands-on program focuses on a variety of experimental mixed media art and crafts, as a means of relaxing whilst learning new and fun art techniques and creating artworks.

The program has been created to encourage playful art-forms and creative fun with no artistic requirements necessary. A creative journey with a difference, that has young minds engaged on the hands-on creative process rather than depending on technology and Apps-on a device to promote connecting with their creative thinking ability and learning simple techniques to relax and unwind.

Course Outline:

*Creatives are encouraged to engage and explore creativity through mixed media and other creative art forms including music, narrative storytelling, drama play and movement, drawing from their natural environment and imagination.

• Each workshop/class participants work on semi-structured activities to facilitate the relaxing and creative art fun process and may include the following:
• Understanding & experimenting with colour
• Doodling & music – quick and easy techniques to doodling and creating Zen Doodle art forms, using simple lines and shapes techniques
• Drama Play & Story telling through Collage-mixed media
• Expressive Painting. A variety of simple acrylic painting techniques will be explored and participants will be guided in creating their own pieces of artwork on art paper and canvases

Learning Outcomes:

• Engage with others in a safe and inspiring creative space
• Use imagination and be able to express creative side freely
• Learn new creative art techniques and experiment
• Learn how to relax and have social fun whilst creating
• Social interaction skills and ability to speak in a group environment – interpersonal skills

What to bring:

In most sessions all materials will be provided by tutor unless instructed. Participants may wish to bring their own:

• Coloured pencils/watercolour pencil/crayons
• felt pens or markers, gel pens (non-toxic)
• acrylic paints (non-toxic, water based)
• paint brushes (various sizes)
• containers for water (brush cleaning), paint pallets
• Painting apron or paint shirt/smock or wear old t-shirt

About the tutor:

Facilitated by an Artist/Art Therapy and Holistic Creative Arts Therapist.

Melissa (Mel) Martin is a contemporary artist, practicing Art Therapy and Creative Arts Therapies and is a Champion of Change, who has taken her interests and professional training in People Management/Organisational Psychology, and Art Therapy and Holistic Integrated Creative Art Therapy to a new level of experiencing self- awareness.

Mel runs local creative art classes/workshops through Learning and Community Centres as well as privately, where she explores with small groups their true selves and the potential they have and the fear that is holding them back.

Offering a varied range of personalised Creative Art Services from Art Therapy and Mindfulness practices, exploring a range of mixed media art techniques and tools to facilitate imaginative fun and creative expression, working with children, adolescents, adults and seniors.

Other Information:

• To ensure resources are ready for you at the start of your course, we ask you ideally enrol at least one week before the course commences.
• All courses need a minimum number of students to run ("we try our hardest to get those") . If your course does not have enough students it will be cancelled before the commencement and you will be informed.