Join Mercedes College guest artist, Mel Brown, in Term 2 and uncover your talents for portraiture...

Through intensive weekly workshops from Week 1 (2 May) to Week 9 (27 June), Mel will guide participants through the process of creating a piece of art using oil paint on canvas. Participants will design and complete a portrait of themselves or another in a style of their choosing.

Price includes all materials for the duration of the workshops, and participants keep their final piece.

Works are eligible to be included in students' IB and SACE assessments.

Participant numbers are strictly limited.

Pictured: will to Possess, 2008, Oil on canvas, 68x102cm by Melanie Brown.

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Artist Melanie Brown smiling at a work table covered in paint brushes and a paint palette

Melanie Brown is a Lecturer of Painting and Drawing at the Adelaide Central School of Art and creates realist, figurative works that present the viewer with alternate ways of experiencing the body. She explores notions of self-creation, beauty, fearlessness, risk, power, and multiple femininities, and plays with visual codes in work that questions and flaunts conventional representations of gender definition.

Explore more of Mel's work on her website.