Children's Workshop: Castle Drawing 5+ | SEPPELTSFIELD

Children's Workshops at JamFactory Seppeltsfield

Imagine a world of castles, dragons, and daring adventures as you create your own medieval masterpiece!

Bring along your cardboard castle if you've made one in the Cardboard Castles workshop, or choose from a collection of castle models and reference images provided on the day. Artist Deb will guide you through fun and easy drawing techniques as you explore paint, pastel, and charcoal to capture towers, turrets, drawbridges, dragons, flags, and all the magical details that make every castle unique.

Then let your imagination take over! Add brave knights, fiery dragons, mysterious forests, or even a friendly giant to create your own castle story on paper. Experiment with colour, texture, line, shading, and expressive mark-making while building confidence in your artistic skills.

This workshop is perfect for young artists who love to draw, paint, and imagine. If you've already built a cardboard castle, it's a wonderful opportunity to use your own creation as inspiration—but everyone is welcome, whether or not they attended the earlier workshop.

This workshop is suitable for children aged 5 years and over (guardians and caregivers are also welcome to book in and participate). All tools and materials will be supplied; students will go home with their own collection of cardboard creatures.

Deborah Twining

Deborah is an Adelaide Hills based artist and arts educator. With a degree in the Visual Arts and a Diploma of Education, her creative practice has spanned three states - South Australia, Western Australia and regional North Queensland - over the past 30 years. As a multidisciplinary artist, her curiosity for learning, experimentation and interaction has let to a playful, explorative and sensitive approach to her own artwork and her community and arts education-based practice.

For the past 10 years, Deb has run a weekly art school, TwiningArts, based in her studio at the Hahndorf Academy, catering for over 80 students ranging in age from 5 to 20 years of age; her classes seek to guide and inspire creative development, foster personal growth, inquiry and expression whilst developing advanced technical skills in a multitude of mediums.

Deb's arts practice has seen the development of collaborative community projects and children's art activations for the Adelaide Festival, OSCA arts, Fabrik: Arts and Heritage, Barossa Regional Gallery, Hahndorf Academy, The Pinnaroo Project and Adelaide Writer's Week (AWW). 

General information on our short course requirements, facilities and refund policy can be found here