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.
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....
Noah Nolywaika – beginner to selling his art in Alaska!
Learning to draw is a journey and everyone was a beginner once. Noah Nolywaika is a young professional artist inspired by the magnificent wilderness of the landscape, flora and fauna in Nenana Alaska. He was just 17 years of age when he first came to study the...
Deepti Mohile
Deepti Mohile has been on an exciting journey from learning to draw as an adult beginner, she has gone on to become a multi-award winning artist. Deepti now enjoys a beautiful new career as a pre-school teacher. Her artwork has a special vibrancy and energy to it,...
Susanne Norling – Art as a Form of Therapy
Susanne Norling is just as comfortable creating stunning realistic portraits as she is creating gorgeous imaginative children's book-style illustrations. From one image to another Susanne uses her newly-acquired skills to express her creativity through a vast variety...
