Beginner Colour Pencil Workshop: Gift a Memory with your handmade postcard!

Unlock the world of colour pencil illustration and create a personalised postcard in this warm, beginner-friendly one-day workshop!

Join us for the Beginner Colour Pencil Workshop: Gift a Memory
Date: December 14, 2025
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: City Library, 253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000
🌟No prior experience required!🌟

This hands-on session is all about slowing down, drawing from the heart, and turning simple moments into meaningful art. You will learn how to sketch with confidence and bring your illustration to life with blending, layering, and smooth shading techniques. By the end of class, you will leave with a completed colour pencil postcard ready to gift or keep.

This workshop is an ideal way to create a thoughtful Christmas present. Hand-drawn postcards are personal, intimate, and completely one of a kind, making them perfect for friends, partners, and family members. Rather than giving a generic store-bought item, you can craft something that captures a memory, a place you visited together, a favourite object, or a symbol that holds meaning. It also makes a wonderful activity to gift to someone who loves creative experiences.

Bring your own reference photos or objects if you want to include a special Christmas moment or personal memory, such as a holiday ornament, a family keepsake, or a winter scene that means something to you.

What You Will Learn

• Sketching with simple shapes
• Layering and shading techniques
• Blending colours for smooth transitions
• Essential colour pencil methods to create depth and vibrancy

Workshop Details

• Duration: 1.5 to 2 hours
• Materials Provided: postcard paper, colour pencils, practice sheets, reference images
  • Optional: bring your own photo or object (leaves, jewellery, ornaments, small keepsakes, etc.)
• Suitable For: complete beginners, hobby artists, and students
• Class Size: limited to 9 participants
• Price: 45.78 AUD

#Black_Friday_offer: 30% off when purchasing two tickets

Milestone

1. Learn Drawing and Colour Pencil Techniques

• 10–15 minute presentation
  Start with a concise, easy-to-follow hands-on presentation that introduces essential skills. You will learn about sketching with basic shapes, layering, shading, and blending colours to build depth and smooth transitions. These foundations prepare you for the hands on portion of the session.
• Hands-on practice: drawing and colour pencil techniques
  After the presentation, you will practise each technique directly with guided support. This warm-up stage helps you gain confidence before moving on to your final postcard artwork.

1. Hands-on Practice: Postcard Artwork

• Put everything together by creating your own colour pencil postcard. You can complete one postcard or continue working to create multiple postcards, depending on your pace. By the end of the workshop, you will have a finished piece ready to gift or keep!

Give yourself a moment of calm during the festive rush and walk away with a heartfelt Christmas gift made by you. Spaces are limited, so secure your seat today.

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