Art with Mike art classes

Some pics from our very successful Saturday art class. Drawing, drawing and more drawing! (we do have painters as well).

Wednesday evening class! Busy artists, lots of learning and laughing. 🥰🥰

Hey all! I will be holding a charcoal workshop in Blairgowrie, Randburg on Saturday 4 March, from 10am till 1pm.

We'll be working with the basics of charcoal, and you'll get a nice drawing to take home with you. Snacks and refreshments provided.

Contact me here or via the number on the flyer.

Hi all, I'm starting up my classes again, this time at my own home studio. Please contact me for more details.

My wonderful adopted cousin in New Zealand has a company called Lemonaide, and they're running a very cool competition along with the South African Pantry in Paraparaumu! Share your favourite braai recipe!

Michael Smith Art Classes Art With Mike offers engaging and enjoyable art classes for adults. My focus is on painting and drawing. In a relaxed environment in up-and-coming central Linden, I work to improve your technique,...

This 18th episode is another recorded talk from the art fair week in September of this year, 2019. It was recorded at FNB Art Joburg and is a conversation about the great and influential David Koloane who passed away at the age of 81 in June this year. I was so happy to hear that this talk was happening at Art Joburg, as I was planning an episode remembering the life and work of David Koloane. Both speakers, art historian and curator Thembinkosi Goniwe and Goodman Gallery curator Justin Davy, worked intimately with David in the last few months of his life, pulling together his prolific and profound body of work for a major retrospective exhibition. Fortunately, David was able to see the first incarnation of the exhibition at Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town in June this year, but sadly would not live to see its second incarnation at the Standard Bank Art Gallery in Johannesburg which opened just last week and runs until 6 December.

Thank you to Art Joburg for allowing me to record this talk and to publish it on Unframed, and to Thembinkosi and Justin for an insightful and poignant tribute to David Koloane.

Listen on Apple Podcasts or at the link below:
http://unframedpodcast.com/project/ep18-talk-on-david-koloane-with-thembinkosi-goniwe-justin-davy/

Some ! The wonderful students at Art With Mike’s Friday afternoon class are producing great work!

Some pics from a drawing workshop I held at Redhill School yesterday. The participants learned about charcoal and its versatility. Some great works produced! Well done, all!

One of my students, Therese van Greunen, recently completed this amazing charcoal drawing. Well done, Therese! The detail in this is incredible, and I know it took great focus to complete it so beautifully.

! Take a moment to reflect on your artistic path. When did you first start being obsessed with making pictures?