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Arts Tree

Locality: Wynnum, Queensland

Phone: +61 437 146 359

Address: 248 Preston Road 4178 Wynnum, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.artstree.com.au/

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25.01.2022 Please upvote, and please share far and wide!

25.01.2022 Our students tend to come to us with a teeny, tiny canvas to start with. Small, so that they don't waste too much paint with what will obviously be a failure because they're not really that creative and its gonna suck.... Thats what they tell us anyway.... And so we paint, and we get excited, and we teach secrets and praise and sing and dance and get quite silly as each student realises that they are making magic happen. And then, canvas by canvas they grow. Bigger and bigger until at point they rock up with an idea so damn big they could sleep on it! This is why we do it. Because these biggining canvasses are proof that our students are dreaming bigger than when they met us, and thus, our job is done. Pictured here is Deb, a small canvas beginner who now has the biggest one in the room! #turtle #familyholiday #inspiration #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasss #onlineart #artclasses #artteacher #artistinresidence #arttutor #atelieracrylics #chromainc

24.01.2022 Layers... its how we work out here at Arts Tree, building up to the finished image through layers of colour over texture over glaze over naked canvas. Or maybe the other way around? Or maybe all of them at once. We dont know truly, we are just making things up as we go along after all.... With layers we are caring about every step at the same time as being quite nonchalant about it. We are caring about the colour selection as well as playing with it. We are drawing every single step of the way, regardless of the fact that youve drawn that line already. Heres a turtle emerging from some coral, we have started on that 3rd layer with the white patches, rudely painting over the drawings we did before and the transparent colours underneath it. All for a reason we assure you, youve just gotta TRUST THE PROCESS!! #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly #turtle #coral #layers #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasses #onlineart #artclasses

24.01.2022 Brand new student Angela has finished her first piece with us! A captivating heavily textured seascape referencing another artist's work.. As long as you are not selling the work or claiming the idea as your own it is a-ok to copy a work in order to learn from your artist inspiration... in fact, it's one of the quickest ways to add new 'styles ' of working to your tool kit. Sick of not having your own unique style? Take some time out and explore what tickles your fancy, copy,... learn, adapt, utilise, create. Thank you Angela and everyone else that makes this existence a reality! #seascape #texturepaste #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasss #onlineart #artclasses #atelieracrylics #chromacrylacrylics

23.01.2022 Working backwards into a painting.... sometimes a tough concept to wrap your head around but always a worthwhile step, a necessary break and stop-check in bringing a painting into fruition. With student Andrea's piece, after first rubbing our colours onto the canvas, we went in with some @josonja glaze medium and our darks to fill in our shadows, alternatively called the negative space around our flowers. After going back into our shadows you can see in the next slide that we... started coming out with our lights on the vase. Painting is nothing if not a dance between light and dark. Always so entranced as our subject emerges from the canvas. #flowers #vase #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasss #onlineart #artclasses #atelieracrylics #chromacrylacrylics

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21.01.2022 JUST SOLD! Since joining Bluethumb late last year, Joseph Villanueva is fast becoming a favourite with our collectors. bluethumb.com.au/joseph-villanueva Tall Trees Mount Dandenong by Joseph Villanueva

21.01.2022 Another bloody sensational piece off the canvas and into the home!! Tutor Ali and Olga created magic together but it was a push, it was Olgas first piece with us so the trust in the process was there but... it was dubious. We know we ask a lot. We really do.... But why stop at a little, when you can have this instead?! Thank you thank you thank you for allowing us to play with yall! @ Arts Tree - art classes in Brisbane

20.01.2022 Saturday smiles

20.01.2022 Lotus street art by 1161315545(Douyin) video on @processvideo via: https://bit.ly/2Vj3cJJ

20.01.2022 Faces are hard and easy. Not easier than a hand. Not harder than a flower. Just kind of exactly the same but with likeness involved.... The real work is more psychological, how do you turn your daughters face into 2d shadows and lights when what youre really wanting to paint is her essence and your sweeping love for her? You have to separate yourself from your painting, allow your faces to get ugly, continue to push through the doubt, and lift your drawing skills to inhabit every brush stroke. Here are a couple of our faces coming through the classroom at Arts Tree, enjoy! #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly #ballerina #portraits #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasses #faces @ Arts Tree - art classes in Brisbane

20.01.2022 First layer down and we are already feeling a bit of the bluster of that cold Tasmanian beach. What you can see here is a study in how mark making can add your overall narrative. Notice how the sky opens up, and the horizon zooms out. The waves are irregular, speaking of wind, but directional which gives us length. Even in this very bottom layer we are still paying attention to every mark just enough to build on the story.... Whaddaya think? Can you feel the wind? #tasmania #beach #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasss #onlineart #artclasses #atelieracrylics #chromacrylacrylics

20.01.2022 Realistic colours are just one option... Tracys WIP brings all the colours together in a 1 metre square of wonderful, painterly skill. Tracy has been making paintings with Arts Tree since we began, way back in 2013. So. Many. Masterpieces! #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasses #onlineart #artclasses #doggo #petportrait

16.01.2022 Arts Tree is a smol business, a mum n pop place utilising family and close friends to make big dreams become even bigger realities. Our home is also the home of our school, a block of land with a creek, and our very own waterfall (about 20cm high). We consider ourselves custodians of the land and consciously put good stuff back into this ground that has given us so much. We share it with a million skinks and bees and butterflies, countless bearded dragons, a few blue tong...ues, hundreds of Mickey birds and a family of ducks. We are so very thankful for every blade of grass here, and for every human who comes to share the space with us. Have a swipe through and say hello to green wonderland #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasses #onlineart #artclasses #artteacher #artistinresidence #arttutor #atelieracrylics #chromainc

15.01.2022 Not every piece is an instant success, and it's usually because decisions keep on being made before a solution is present. The hardest thing about this incredibly joyous job is turning on the muse, for every student, on their command... its not always present. So sometimes you miss what's wrong with an image or operate on autopilot with corrections because your attention is with another student.... A quick way to refocus your eye when workshopping a piece is to take a photo. As soon as we did we realised how damn cubist this piece had gotten for student, Tina! Tomorrow night we will be softening out some of those edges and taking the harshness out of this piece. #rocks #texturepaste #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasss #onlineart #artclasses #artteacher #artistinresidence #arttutor #atelieracrylics #chromainc

14.01.2022 You can't see his face, its probably for the best, this guy is too handsome for the lens... Graham, papa bear, the leader of Arts Tree behind da scenes. With degrees in Law and Ecology as well as experience in film and media, Graham makes sure we are wrapped up tight, whilst looking after the world around us. Arts Tree wouldn't be possible without this giant man and we love 'im to bits!... #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasss #onlineart #artclasses #atelieracrylics #chromacrylacrylics

14.01.2022 Check out the colours on this #wip by one of our beloved students! If your colours are sexy, your product will be sexy, and thats what we want on our walls after all. Drool worthy, attractive, vibrant, awe inspiring, painted sonnets... or is that just us? #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly ... #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasses #onlineart #artclasses See more

13.01.2022 Your two tutors here at Arts Tree, Mumma De and the staff member she made herself nearly 36 years ago, Ali. Theres a third person to this family business, a 4th staff member and a growing, many tentacled dynasty in the making not included in this picture... theres only so much you can fit in an instagram post. These two will quite honestly teach you everything they know, because whats the point of keeping tricks and tips to yourself? A whole world of beauty, joy, and exub...erance is here to be captured and played with, and at Arts Tree we truly believe that everyone has the ability to make it happen, we all just need the right tools. If youre thinking of adding to your tool belt we have a couple of spots available in weekly classes and maybe even a workshop or two comin up. Check out da link in bio to coast on through to da website. #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasses #onlineart #artclasses #motherdaughter #familybusiness #localbusiness

10.01.2022 Student Kieran, as usual, being an inspiration to us all. What a legend. #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly ... #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasss #onlineart #artclasses #atelieracrylics #chromacrylacrylics #slipknot See more

10.01.2022 Finished masterpiece after finished masterpiece, what a damn treat! This beautiful elephant was a dream, she flew out of Ashs fingers and onto the canvas exceedingly easily. To capture that transparent glow we used negative colour sweeps to ground the canvas and increasing layers of opacity to bring contrast. Throw in some gesso soup and stenciling and youve got yourself not only a beautiful piece but an interesting piece... ... Theres enough boring and beige in da world. If all of the above made no sense to you, feel free to ask some questions! #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasses #onlineart #artclasses #arttutor #atelieracrylics #chromainc #elephant #soaringsparrowhealing @ Arts Tree - art classes in Brisbane

09.01.2022 NDIS/NDIA class! Arts Tree has just 3 places available in our new Tuesday afternoon class (2-4 pm) with Ali, exclusively for NDIS/NDIA supported clients. Limited to a maximum of 4 students, this class offers a high level of individual support to beginner artists wishing to enhance their capacity building with projects in painting and drawing. Please call or text us on 0437146359 to discuss any queries you have around accessibility & how we can best support your journey into art making!

09.01.2022 And we are baaaaaaaack!!! 2021 comin atcha!

08.01.2022 Beginnings. Trust the process. Its not finished yet. Weve only just started. Well get there.... Keep going. These are things we say to our students every day. Even now, after a lifetime of artistry, our founder De still loses the way forward sometimes. Keep pushing. Fight against the slug in your head that is telling you to stop, or that it looks rubbish, or that you dont know what youre doing. Last I checked none of us know what we are doing anyway. So.... yeah. Pick up the brush, and fkn paaaaaaaaint!!! by Maureen. #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly #trusttheprocess #wip #trees #billabong #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasses #onlineart #artclasses

08.01.2022 How good is this absolute EXPLOSION of colour from the @degillett classroom?? Out-bloody-standing. #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly ... #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasses #onlineart #artclasses #artteacher #artistinresidence #arttutor #atelieracrylics #chromainc

08.01.2022 Wow!!! My fabric designs are now available for pre-order! View the Cockatoo Chatter collection here https://kkfabrics.com.au//new-colle/cockatoo-chatter-0162/ Get onto your fabric retailer of choice, and let them know you would love to see them in store!

07.01.2022 Not done yet, but getting closer! Paul has turned his focus to the NT landscape, with stunning results. Starting with a colour rub and building on that with layers of gesso soup and glazing, the dramatic Australian scene can consider itself captured! #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasses #atelieracrylics #chromainc #australia #landscape

06.01.2022 How bloody delightful are these marks on student Cherie's canvas? So nice and loose, yet formed and whole. How accidental yet so thoroughly thought out. The complexities of painting will never cease to amaze us here at Arts Tree!... #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasss #onlineart #artclasses #atelieracrylics #chromacrylacrylics

05.01.2022 Sit back and enjoy the show, fellow artists!

04.01.2022 Lovely, flowing transparencies... yes please! #artstree #artstreecreations #degillett #brisbaneartclasses #onlineartclasses #degillettcox #chroma #buyartnow #banbarewalls #patreoncreator #atelierinteractives #manlyharbourgallery #montvilleartgallery #waterlillies #wetpaint

04.01.2022 #wip from student Bernie, mother of 3 awesome daughters, with this little bubba being the final one off the easel. A couple more hours of work here but coming along oh so beauuuuutifully! #motherdaughter #portraits #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly ... #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasss #onlineart #artclasses #atelieracrylics #chromacrylacrylics See more

04.01.2022 Jill, oh Jillo, our Jillo, what a treat it is to see you expand through your pieces. Making art makes you bigger. It just does. In this piece Jill has been inspired by the work of another artist but used her own image and adapted that style to fit. Not easy but executed so damn well.... So proud of our students! #aligillett #brisbaneartclasses #onlineart #artclasses #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #artteacher #artistinresidence #arttutor #atelieracrylics #chromainc @ Arts Tree - art classes in Brisbane

03.01.2022 To mix things up we have an AFTER followed by the BEFORE.... we crazy out here!!! But seriously go swipe back and forth through these two images and marvel at the difference that a bit of highlighting can do to an image. Cant you feel the pull of the water against those flippers as the turtle pulls itself toward us? You know where the sun is and how it would be playing against your own skin. ... The corals are alive and dancing! More to come but simply amazing what can be achieved in a 2 hour class once a week! #turtle #reef #coral #fuckadani #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasss #onlineart #artclasses #artteacher #artistinresidence #arttutor #atelieracrylics #chromainc

02.01.2022 Some works in progress currently in the classroom! Probably the biggest lesson constantly going collectively learnt by ourselves and most definitely by our students is the myth of perfection. Some paintings look positively hideous throughout some parts of the creative process. This is ok. We liken it to our teenage years, when we all get a bit ugly and try to be something we are not. As tutors we learn to not take the criticism personally and instead encourage a bit of kind...ness and forward direction.... Just like how we lovingly suggest that a newly hormonal teen may want to wear some deoderant. Theres a problem, but its ok, we have a solution, kinda thinking. Much more helpful than simply stepping up to a creation you have birthed and saying how stinky it is Enjoy the journey fellow artists!!! Here is Estelle, a bloody treat of a hooman who has been painting out @artstree for a few years now, a student of mine for almost 2 of them! I am humbled every time Estelle allows me to teach her something. Given that the school that Estelle attends was founded by my Mother, stepping out from her shadows and existing as an artist and tutor in my own right is no small task. Our students are there to learn Mums techniques after all... There is however, also the very unarguable fact that our students are also there to learn, full-stop. And thus Estelle, a woman who has lived almost 3 of my lifetimes, and an absolute wealth of knowledge, is able to teach me the value of that little bit that do know, thus far, in this eye-blink of a lifetime. Here she is with her latest piece to come off the easel xxx #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasses #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly #degillett #atelieracrylics #chromainc @ Arts Tree - art classes in Brisbane

02.01.2022 Artist of the day - De Gillett https://www.buyartnow.com.au/de-gillett A painter of large, vibrant canvases, De Gillett Cox captures intensity, optimism and joy... with her brushes and knives. Her highly textured canvases dramatically demand our attention, shouting off the wall with a vibrant new take on familiar landscapes. De skilfully orchestrates highly developed drawing techniques together with a kaleidoscope of colour across her canvases. Juxtaposing opacity & transparency, positive & negative, textures & glazes; she fills her contemporary interpretations of landscape with sumptuous celebration and an organic neo-futurism. De Gillett Cox graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Queensland College of Arts (QCA), Griffith University, Brisbane. #homedecor #interiordesign #artprints #australianartist #artforsale #artgallery #artcollector #fineart #strongertogether #banbarewalls

02.01.2022 Wednesday morning bravery in da classroom of awesome! We have an octopus, a turtle, a sunset, some tulips and a completely original concept going on this morning and walking around here we couldnt be prouder of the focus and ability present in these beginner artists. Fkn astounding. Constant gratitude for this career ... #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasses #onlineart #arttutor #atelieracrylics #chromainc #octpous #tulips #sunset #turtle @ Arts Tree - art classes in Brisbane See more

02.01.2022 Art class with Ben Quilty

02.01.2022 WIP from Bec, a student of 5 years here at Arts Tree! Loving that light she is catching on that majestic Jacaranda trunk. Negative painting plus texture paste and stencilling thus far. #artstree #artstreecreations #wynnummanly #degillett #brisbaneartist #brisbane #brisbaneartteacher #aligillett #brisbaneartclasses #onlineart #artclasses #jacaranda #purple #trees #dappledlight

01.01.2022 An example of just how our lead tutor De Gillett Cox can help you make better paintings online while we are all in isolation and the Arts Tree classroom is closed ... www.patreon.com/DeGillett

01.01.2022 As far as we are aware, we are pretty safe in Queensland. But the State of Victoria thought that too, 20 days ago. Thats why well keep wearing masks when we cant stay far apart in our classroom. For a few more weeks at least.

01.01.2022 Whether youre a passionate Picasso or a stick figure specialist, join Rove McManus live for a 2-hour event to draw the nation together in Australias first-ever televised life drawing class. #SBSLifeDrawingLive 8:30PM, Saturday 4 July on SBS and SBS On Demand.

01.01.2022 Aaaaand WERE BACK! Classes restart Tuesday June 16th. We are really, really looking forward to painting with you again!Aaaaand WERE BACK! Classes restart Tuesday June 16th. We are really, really looking forward to painting with you again!

01.01.2022 Check out the latest podcast with an artist we love Lewis Rossignol https://kickinthecreatives.com/kick-creatives-podcast/ Listen to the Kick in the Creatives P...odcast in all the usual places and on our website. Heres a small snippet from the podcast with Lewis talking about how he likes to mess up the page before he starts drawing. Also in the podcast, Lewis talks about: How and why he went to art college later in life as a mature student His Tourettes Syndrome and how art helps with the condition and how art/creativity could help with your mental health Artists that have inspired him and influenced his work His favourite mediums to work with Where he gets his inspiration for the faces he draws How he built his following on Instagram Putting together his art books

01.01.2022 Going live in 50 minutes, at 6 pm. Ill be doing a colour rub for my next painting. See you then!

01.01.2022 We will all be wearing masks in the Arts Tree classroom, at least for a while. Washable ones mean no trash going into our environment, so we got these. They are fabulous!

01.01.2022 We will be following these recommendations in the Arts Tree classroom.. looks like we will be permitted to open mid June!