Wednesday Wonder Workshops

They’re back! The workshop series I’m known for!

A unique combination of artmaking alongside Art Friends!

Wednesdays 5, 12, 19 February & 5 March 2025

Sunshiners Group - 9:30am -12:30pm

Moonlighters Group - 5:30pm - 8:30pm

At the end of the four weeks you’ll have a unique and treasured ‘Wonder Journal’
as well as up to four artworks that demonstrate the themes depending on your experience and interests.

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SURFACES

1 x 75 x 110cm Canson Mi-Teintes sheet (any colour)

2 stretched canvases (if you’re a fast painter, you can go a bit larger, otherwise 30 x 30cm ish is fine)

MATERIALS 

A set of Acrylic Paints - preferably Atelier Fluids, but other brands are fine. These colours (or similar) at minimum: Titanium White, Phthalo Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Quinacridone Magenta, Pyrrole Red, Hansa Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Carbon Black, Burnt Sienna, Phthalo Green

4 x Prismacolor Pencils (Yellow, Red, Blue and White)

Sharpener.

TOOLS, BRUSHES & EQUIPMENT 

A selection of acrylic brushes - including 25mm flat, #16 flat, #10 flat, #12 round, #6 round.

Tear off palette.

Water tub and old tea towels.

Apron.

Notebook and pen/pencil.

(Once you sign up, you’ll get an email from Murrays to see if you need anything.)

Materials List

About the Tutor: Anna Battle

I’m a contemporary Toowoomba artist with over 30 years of painting experience and 15 years of teaching, face to face and online. I live for COLOUR and my mission is to share the joy of drawing and painting. 

I regularly exhibit with my mother, artist Diana Battle, and my original collections are listed on her website. I have collaborated with Rosalie House Winery, Pechey Distillery, Milton & King Wallpaper and now have my own range of homewares and printed items, including calendars and cards. I've also painted many murals, particularly for the Toowoomba Hospital Foundation and have been the Creative Advisor, alongside Mary-Kate Thomson, of the Grand Central Floral Parade for the past 4 years.

Through my business, Shiny Happy Art, I offers a huge range of online classes and workshops, from drawing to painting and urban sketching. I have taken artists to Norfolk Island and many other Queensland locations. I have offered face-to-face classes in many forms over the years, I’m is excited to share my approach to art making and making new Art Friends at Murray’s this year.

FAQs

  • Because I keep the weekly theme broad enough that I can share what is exciting and inspiring me - you will ‘wonder’ what we’re doing each week! A favourite series since 2016, I am excited to be bringing this workshop to Murray’s.

  • There’s a minimum of 7 and a maximum of 10 in each group.

    Small class numbers mean that I can share my magic and knowledge with beginners and more experienced artists alike. I’ll share inspiration, art history and modern techniques that relate to a topic each week. There will be insightful projects about those topics, and the projects will create memorable art experiences. Your confidence will grow because it truly is ‘learning by doing’.

  • At the end of the four weeks you’ll have a unique and treasured ‘Wonder Journal’ as well as up to four artworks that demonstrate the themes depending on your experience and interests.

  • This workshop is hosted on Wednesdays in 4 week blocks. There’s a Sunshiners Group - 9:30am -12:30pm and a Moonlighters Group - 5:30pm - 8:30pm. 


    The dates are 5, 12, 19 February and 5 March 2025 and topics will focus on composition in acrylic - Windows and doors, Landscapes, Minutiae and Storytelling.

  • We will primarily be using acrylic paints for these sessions.

    General materials are not included in this workshop. The materials list is on this page.

    If you are starting with no materials, you can expect to pay around $200-250 to set yourself up for this workshop. 

    Once you sign up, you’ll get an email about supplies from Murrays Art and Framing. If you already own some materials they encourage you to come in store to fill in the gaps.

    Murray's Art and Framing has a full selection of art supplies. You will get the opportunity to try a limited range in this workshop and will receive our loyalty programs 10% discount off art supplies (exclusions apply).

  • If I’m sick, we’ll reschedule.

    If you can’t make your class, but could make the other time, please let me kow.

    If we don’t get the minimum numbers in each session (we need 7 in each), the series won’t go ahead and you’ll be refunded.