DrawPj Wall of Fame
Meet our Students and Graduates
A great big thank you to our group of wonderful students and alumni who have agreed to share their stories, artworks, and inspiration.
We’ll be adding more stories throughout the year and keep you updated via our blog every time we add a new featured DrawPj student.
Johanna Thebige – Beginner to Award Winning Pet Portrait Artist
Artist Johanna Thebige and her husband are full time RV Travelers. She creates her artworks in an incredibly versatile compact area purpose-built by her husband. I've had the privilege of mentoring and coaching Johanna through her artistic development and...
Linda Elliott – Beginner to Professional Pet Portrait Artist
There's something precious about Linda Elliott's pet portraits, she has this amazing gift of capturing their character in a special moment of time. Her artworks are cheerful, heart-warming and show alot of love in their making. Linda's dedication to learning to...
Avril Parkes – Beginner to Art on Jigsaws, Cards and More
Avril Parkes has an amazing natural ability to capture the deep inner beauty, the true essence of the animal in her portraits. In her artworks Avril is bold, courageous and she bravely steps out into the unknown. Her colour choices are spectacular! She dares to go...
Peta Turner – From Beginner to Selling Her Art on Cards and Journals
Melbourne based Australian Artist PetaTurner first came to me as a mentored student in August 2020 as an absolute beginner to drawing. She works in a full-time job as a Teacher of the Deaf in a primary school and mostly studied my course at her kitchen table,...
Niko Vargas – Beginner to Professional Tattoo Technician
Niko Vargas is a professional Tattoo Technician based out of the East Coast, he's been tattoing for 6 years from various studios and recently in his own private studio. His work is a dream come true. He gets to draw for a living! Niko creates beautiful fine art...
Katya Yanovich – From Learning to Sketch to Masterpieces
Katya Yanovich is a naturally gifted, dedicated artist who always fully commits to any drawing challenge she's presented with in my mentoring program, and the results show for her efforts. From very early on I could see by the high quality of mark-making Katya...
Karen Piper – Creating in Multiple Mediums
Karen Piper has a natural desire to use multiple artistic mediums. She creates beautiful artworks in a variety of different art styles from realism to expressive and contemporary, into children's picture book illustration and beyond. She is exploring with pastels,...
Aleksey Kosarev – Imaginative Surrealistic Cityscapes and Environments
The imagination of Russian Artist Aleksey Kosarev is truly spectacular! Through his mesmerizing, expressive body of work, Aleksey transports us into other worlds and places that just don't exist in reality. His work is colourful, imaginative,...
Denise Burns – A star in the making
Artist Denise Burns in her studio Denise Burns has a natural ability to design, compose and create beautiful artworks from the things we often don't notice in nature and man-made objects. From the complex mechanisms of a spectacular horse carousel to the tiny markings...
Lynn Nelson – From beginner to award winner in her 70’s
Artist Lynn Nelson in her studio Lynn Nelson is an absolute inspiration! She has learned to draw in her 70's from an absolute beginner just 5 years ago. After graduating from her beginner course her skills began to really grow rapidly from strength to strength....
