Art Adventures Queenstown
Art Adventures Queenstown offer personalised creative experiences where every day is different. Visit artists studios and art galleries, or discover your own artistic skills with expert tutors in the spectacular lake and mountain scenery of Queenstown. No art experience is necessary, for the absolute beginner to the more creative of you! Art Adventures offer a variety of options from a half day sketching session with tuition in a remote location to multi days options – far more rewarding than taking photographs with a camera! You also have...
read moreThe editor of Life & Leisure sketches at Kelvin Heights
Last week I was honoured to have the editor of Life & Leisure magazine out for a mid day sketching excursion. It was an extremely hot, still day we went to where one starts the bike/walking track to Jacks Point at the Kelvin Heights Golf course. It was very hot and hazy, so out came my canopy chairs and they were perfect as neither Kate nor Stewart had hats. Megan tutored them, whilst I went and found a suitable lunch spot. We ended up at the yacht club pavilion which was perfect, no one around and although I forgot to give them cheese...
read moreJudging The 2011 Locations Art Awards, Queenstown
I was asked to judge the 2011 Locations Art Awards. It was a great night and I stunned everyone with the winner. Normally the prize goes to a painter but I selected a fabric artist as I found her work really drew me in and I love the association to the forest. I felt it really had an atmosphere to the work. There are lots of prizes and I would like to donate an award next year. Giving out Art Awards at Location Art Awards Evening
read moreArt Adventure’s First Indian Client, Sonia Nazareth
Sonia Nazareth, our first Indian client, she attended a morning walking and sketching and then in the afternoon she did a Gallery tour of Queenstown.
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Art Adventures Featured on 100% Pure NZ
In June Art Adventures was featured on the website www.newzealand.com (100% Pure New Zealand website). Below is a link to this article. Painting Queenstown in a different light http://www.newzealand.com/travel/media/press-releases/2011/june-2011/art&culture_queenstown-art-adventures.cfm
read morePeter’s Art Adventure
Hello! We have been slow on the update with blogging but we are on the way… Art Adventurers Are Men Too: On the 27 June 2011 we had our first male client, Peter. So far our clients have been women, but now we have a champion to say that men enjoy adventuring around the local country side and historic sites while getting creative with sketching, drawing, or painting. I took him over to the historical township of Cardrona where we started outside but it was too cold (middle of winter here) so we went inside the old hotel and sat by the...
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