Digital Art Class
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90 minutes
Adults & teens 16+ - Tickets
From Triceratops to a world of bugs, Melbourne Museum is an amazing source of inspiration. Discover the wonders of digital drawing in this art and science focused workshop.
Designed to inspire creativity, our Digital Arts Class is run in a unique digital immersive space. You will learn digital skills for drawing amazing museum objects.
This class uses fascinating source materials that tell the stories behind the museum's collection, from the unlimited natural textures and colours and forms of fossils and minerals, to feathers, insects and more.
Whether you are a beginner, expert or somewhere in between, this creative drawing class will introduce you to digital art technologies and skills in a relaxed environment.
You'll get to create extraordinary artworks working individually on the iPad Pro. Our approach allows everyone to enjoy visual creativity, regardless of your previous experience or skills in sketching, painting and digital design.
Key details
- Classes takes place in the Learning Lab Studio.
- Suitable for ages 16+
- Up to 16 participants per class
- Museum entry not included
- All equipment provided
Trendall Vase Collection | 23 July
Come to this special 2 hour extended edition of Digital Art Class and draw the beautiful Greek antique vases from Latrobe University’s Trendall Collection and hear about these amazing pieces from the Director of the Trendall Research Centre, Dr Gillian Shepherd.
Trendall Collection
A.D. Trendall was an internationally renowned classical art historian of the 20th century who specialised in the decorated pottery produced in the Greek cities of Southern Italy and Sicily. His bequest to La Trobe University, which led to the foundation of the Trendall Research Centre, included his extensive personal library, archive of some 40,000 photographs of ancient vases, and his collection of antiquities. The antiquities collection contains South Italian and Athenian works of the 6th to 4th centuries BCE, as well as other small-scale works. The glimpses of ancient Greek society and culture seen in the vase imagery range from the mythological to the everyday, and from tragedy to humour.
Dr Gillian Shepherd
Dr Gillian Shepherd is the Director of the AD Trendall Research Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Studies and also Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at La Trobe University. Gillian studied Classics and Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne before going on to complete a PhD in Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University. Prior to returning to Australia to take up her position at La Trobe University, Gillian was Lecturer in Classical Archaeology at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research interests are the ancient Greek colonisation of Sicily and Italy, burial customs, and the archaeology and art of ancient Greece and Italy.
Science Week Edition | 13 August
Deep-dive into the fascinating intersection of digital art and science in this special Digital Art Class that is all about 'Species Survival'. More information coming soon.
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