Recommendation

Everyday You Can Learn Something New

Hello my dear Melbourne people! I have just came back from my home country Israel, still jet-legging but had to share the most wonderful creative experience I had while visiting there. In my 37 years I’ve been learning so much on pretty much every creative path I could, spiritually, mentally and technically. And yet I’m always amazed of how I

Read More

An Artfelt Journey – Year Of Yas

Written By: Yasemin Yesil, Paint for Fun long and loyal painters. I dedicate this post to all the people out there who embrace the joy of doing what they love…even if they’re not particularly good at it…yet!  1990 The beginning… Sitting in the livingroom of my family home, seven-year-old me had just finished reading one of my favourite books,

Read More

Urban Art Making in Melbourne / Part 2 (Ocean)

2. Second Location- The beach (or port, lake, any other water source) I think the problem Y had is that sketching nature landscaping is a bit hard and need a lot of practice. I found it even boring as nature and water is so 3D and deep with so much texture, can’t quite get that with a pencil.. (anyway

Read More

“Show Off” – Come Celebrate With Us!

Paint for Fun is turning 2! It’s been an amazing couple of years here in Melbourne. We’ve met so many wonderful people in our classes, and witnessed so much hidden talent – it’s amazing to see the artistic potential in all of us with just a little steering in the right direction. To celebrate our birthday, we are Throwing

Read More

Your Upcycling Project – Where to Start?!

Written By Michaela, Paint for Fun’s artist and our inspiration to reuse and substantial art practice. I love Upcycling (Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value. Upcycling is the opposite of Downcycling, which is the other

Read More

Watercolour Painting: Five reasons why you need it in your life

I must admit, I wasn’t a big fan of watercolour painting for a long time. I always preferred to go with what I perceived as “safer” mediums, such as acrylic, collage and sketching. Watercolour wasn’t for me, or so I thought. With greater exposure to beautiful and painfully simple watercolour artworks, I became curious. Then watercolour painting became more

Read More