Cert. IV in Visual Art & Design

Certificate III in Design Fundamentals

Art Course For Aboriginal Artists

Kidogo Painters Scholarship


Content Details for: “Making a Success of Your Art” for Aboriginal Artists and Art Students

- Improving your painting techniques
- Improving your painting composition and understanding how to make the painting more valuable by taking care in working out the best possible composition
- Improving skills in mixing beautiful colours
- Understanding better how colours work and how this understanding can help make better paintings
- Learn techniques that help with loading your brush and controlling paint consistency
- Learn many different painting techniques and effects, including impasto (thick paint) and glazing (thin transparent layers of paint)
- Learn about using different bases for your paintings and using different colour grounds
- Learn the difference between good and poor quality brushes and materials
- You will study the works of good Aboriginal artists to learn more about the history of Aboriginal art and also learn more about current artists who are being shown in the better galleries across Australia

- Improve your skills in drawing:
* For sketching ideas
* Working out compositions
* Doing studies of nature: trees, clouds, rocks etc.
* Drawing people
* Drawing animals, reptiles, birds and insects
* Details that improve the quality of a painting

- Researching your stories/ ideas for your paintings
- Telling your stories
- Visits and talks by successful Aboriginal artists who will give tips and advice on how to become more successful
- How to access funding for your art practice.

Visits and talks by government funding bodies

- Intellectual property. How to protect yourself against plagiarism
- Get free membership to professional art organizations
- Learn about the different art competitions and prizes on offer
- You will enter art competitions and students will aim to win some of these prizes - You will learn how to photograph your paintings
- You will learn how to publicise and market your paintings using printing and Internet
- You will learn how to prepare a media release
- How to get free advertising
- You will learn how to arrange your own exhibition
- You will learn how to price your artwork
- How to hang an exhibition
- How to light an artwork to best effect
- How to put on a professional exhibition opening
- You will have a public exhibition at Kidogo Arthouse Gallery in 2009.

- You will learn how to budget, fundraise, plan and execute a successful show.
- Money matters: How to handle your sales, keep receipts and get tax deductions on your art sales.


By the end of this course all students who complete the course are guaranteed to be able to attract better prices for their artwork and should be able to sell more work than they have before, keeping more money from the sale of their art.


Kidogo Institute
Bathers' Beach, off Mews Road
Fremantle, WA 6160
(Situated on the Beach)

telephone: (+618) 9335 9636
facsimile: (+618) 9335 9073
e-mail: info@creativecourses.com