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TROPIC • ARTS
Quirky crafts Silversmithing at
Rainforest Gems
ART CLASSES Jewellery School,
What’s more calming than Tolga
crafting something with your Handcrafted silver earrings, bracelets
hands? We’ve found five local or rings are pretty impressive gifts for
art classes to try your hand at, someone special in your life. With only
involving everything from fish Gyotaku at two to three students per class, you’ll
to funky-faced characters. Ink Masters gain lifelong skills in silversmithing
and jewellery making at Rainforest
Cairns, Edge Hill Gems in Tolga.
Ink Masters Cairns has a
few unusual screen printing MORE: rainforestgems.com.au
classes, but their Gyotaku
Workshop (with its obligatory
BYO fish) is something else.
This traditional Japanese art
form takes participants through
the process of printing a real
fish onto a t-shirt or paper.
MORE: @inkmasters_cairns
Kokedama at
Succuliving,
Parramatta Park
Succuliving sisters Chu and
Smilyn are here to help you
craft together your very own
Kokedama. Translated to “moss
ball” in English, this Japanese-
style ornamental plant is
cuter than cotton socks and
Glass Work at requires no prior plant-parent
Dab Studio Gallery, experience.
Mossman MORE: @succulivingandco
Learn about
Ceramics at glass fusing
Kettle Black, and slumping
Freshwater at Douglas
Arts Studio
Want to get a little kooky with a Gallery (DAB)
kiln? Felicity Bury from Kettle Black in Mossman.
Pottery has the class for you. Perfect for both
Offering wheel-thrown or hand-built beginners and
pottery classes at her Freshwater experienced hands, these workshops
studio, Felicity’s funky faces offer will teach you glass cutting
something a little different to techniques, then how to fuse and
traditional ceramics. slump the glass into a variety
of items.
MORE:
kettleblackpottery.com.au MORE: dabmossman.com
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