Fiji Art Lab

I teach studio art classes to children and adults through Fiji Art Lab.

Why I recommend keeping a sketchbook ✍🏽 Or if you’re me, several sketchbooks! A sketchbook is just a journal for your art. You don’t have to show it to anyone and it can be a safe space to make ‘bad art.’ 📚 It is not about
Painting progress this week 🎨✨ Our student started a painting of a house before joining weekly painting classes. In the past weeks she’s adjusted colour and proportions based on our lessons. This week we reworked the composition to include lo
Around the Art Lab lately ✨ Witnessing and guiding the process of students work brings me so much joy 🥰🙏🏽
A few life lessons I’ve learned through 20+ years of painting 🎨 The benefits of a regular art practice extend well beyond what we create on the canvas. Art making gives us access to calmer nervous systems, higher frustration tolerance and a d
Yesterday we made pieces that combined several techniques 🌈🌊✨ ➿ Contour drawing 💧Wet on wet watercolor painting 🖌️Wet on dry watercolor painting 🎨 Complementary colours 🖍️ Watercolor resist magic 〰️ Fun and intuitive patterns We absolutely lo
Did you know you can build a beautiful palette using just 3 primary colours and white? ❤️💛💙🤍 Today we explored doing just that with oil pastels and gouache paints. This is a feel good practice that builds the confidence and intuition to choose an