SYDNEY CARTOONIST ACADEMY PRESENTATIONS
Discover Your Inner Artist with BRETT BOWER's SYDNEY CARTOONIST ACADEMY
ART BASED WORKSHOPS AND CREATIVE TALKS FOR CRUISES:
- NEW - AUSSIE SLANG VS. AMERICAN JARGON: A HUMOROUS JOURNEY THROUGH WORDS
- NEW TAHITI TALK - CAPT JAMES COOK AND THE TRANSIT OF VENUS
- NEW - "KILLER KOALAS & OTHER AUSSIE SURPRISES - NOT YOUR
- NEW - FOIL SCULPTURE - WE CREATE 3D SCULPTURES USING TIN FOIL.
- NEW - PICASSO VS VAN GOGH - WE DRAW IN BOTH STYLES AND PICK A WINNER.
- URBAN SKETCHING - DRAWING URBAN SCENES FROM THE PLACES WE VISIT.
- HOW TO CREATE SINGLE PANEL CARTOONS - LEARN THE FORMULA TO CREATE GREAT CARTOONS
- DRAWING FLORA - SKETCHING FLOWERS AND PLANTS
- DRAWING CARICATURES - DRAWING CELEBRITY FACES AND A FEW CRUISE BUDDIES!
- DRAWING 3D OBJECTS - DRAWING SIMPLE 3D OBJECTS MADE EASY
- 10 DRAWING TIPS THAT WILL ROCK YOUR WORLD
- DRAWING DYNAMIC ANIMALS - SKETCHING ANIMALS IN EXCITING POSES.
- DRAWING DYNAMIC PEOPLE - SKETCHING PEOPLE IN EXCITING POSES.
- JAPAN ICONS
- JAPANESE TRAVEL POSTER
- ALSAKAN ICONS
- ALASKAN LANDSCAPES
- AUSTRALIAN ICONS AND LANDSCAPES
- AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS
- TAHITI ICONS
- FIJI ICONS
- SINGAPORE ICONS
- NEW ZEALAND ICONS AND LANDSCAPES
- FOSTERING CREATIVITY - VERY POPULAR
- ART THERAPY FOR CRUISERS -- VERY POPULAR
- TRADITIONAL NATURALIST TALK
- NEW - SCOOBY DO BEHIND THE SCENES - A TELL ALL TALK ABOUT ANIMATING THIS ICONIC SHOW.
THE SAND ARTIST STAGE ACT
Sand Art Like You’ve Never Seen
Brett Bower transforms a simple lightbox and grains of sand into breathtaking live illustrations—shifting and evolving in perfect time with music or storytelling. Each image appears, changes, and disappears before your eyes, creating a mesmerising performance that’s as fleeting as it is unforgettable. From grand stages to intimate events, Brett’s sand art turns stories into living, moving pictures.
Discover SYDNEY CARTOONIST ACADEMY Art School
AUDIENCE FEEDBACK from my cruise workshops in 2025
- Very good Brett & Rebecca.
- We should have more of these fun learnings in cruises.
- I have enjoyed that you have made drawing something I felt I could do! (I'm now 82)
- I have started to look at my plants etc and look at them as shapes. Keep doing what you're doing.
- Thanks Brett & Rebecca, This has been so much fun! It's been great to learn more and I love that anybody can do it, even people who don't think they can draw. What a great tutor!
- Great puns, very enjoyable. I need to practice.
- Thank you both. I have enjoyed each workshop and have gained knowledge & confidence as well as had a great time!
- These were the best ever art classes. Thoroughly enjoyed them, all of them.
- A pleasant experience. Brett was a pleasure to listen to and learn from. My confidence in attempting to draw has gone through the roof! Thank you.
- Brett's workshops have been the highlight of the cruise. I look forward to the workshops each day. Channeling my inner Picasso. ( my wife is not so pleased with my caricature of her)
- Loved the classes, funny inclusive and expanded my drawing abilities, great fun!
- Excellent workshops, more landscapes drawing Australian outback and gum trees with Australian wildlife in foreground and background.
- The classes were great, wish they were longer. Loved urban sketching best. Ms Rebecca is funnier than Brett.
- Loved Brett's presentations, he has encouraged me to try my wish of learning to sketch again.
- Great job!
- I love the dad jokes and relaxed teaching style. I'm not much of a sketcher, but will look at taking a class when I get home. Thanks.
- Thank you, enjoyed the classes, educational & entertaining & comical!
- Great workshops, must have on all cruises. Thanks for the inspiration-
- The workshops were really nice. I found the instruction easy to follow. The jokes were funny, lighthearted and kept things flowing. Longer seminars would have been nice. Definitely think I have improved and would love to come again.
- Fabulous classes!
- Funny, informative, great flow and Brett was really connecting with us. He was really enlightening about the basics of art.
- Talks were entertaining. Loved the dad jokes. I've never thought of myself as a drawer but I could take this up soon. The workshops were simple so everyone could get the basics.
- Enjoyed the workshops- very inspired.
- Thanks for the great drawing workshops.
- I have acquired some skills which I shall show my granddaughter who is showing some artistic promise.
- Been so much fun and informative. The caricature workshop was great to learn. Sphere lines to create faces. Flora and urban sketching was good. Just having the freedom & guidance is fabulous. Thank you. Love the jokes.
- Great classes, thank you. The best part was beginning!going step by step slowly. My picture actually looks like Harry Potter.
- Great workshops, thanks for the education and entertainment.
- A great session that is easy to follow. I'm now just a little more talented with my drawings. The dad jokes are a bonus.
- Thanks so much Brett. We have greatly enjoyed the sessions, especially the little tips to get started & improve. As you say, just start drawing (something). Yes to people, nature, flora & fauna.
- Thanks for the chance to gain confidence in drawing in such a fun, supportive environment.
- Your demonstrations of ways to quickly and easily come up with half decent results were wonderful. I enjoyed every session! I look forward to sharing the methods I have learned with my grandchildren. Thanks again!
- Thank you for your tips. Gives me the enthusiasm to keep going and express what I see.
- Fantastic experience, thank you! Very light hearted and educational at the same time. I love that it doesn't feel competitive too. I'd love to do more flora and fauna. Maybe pets?
- Today was the best, although they have all been great. Because we got some tips that we can use moving forward to proportion faces which were easy.
- I love this, please continue this seminar. I understand art way more and I'm thankful, this was the best thing on the cruise.
- Loved the dad jokes. Wish we had more time. Engaging & informative. Highly recommended. Thanks for the workshops.
- I had great time- thank you for brightening my day and helping me to learn how to draw better.
- Favourite workshop was caricatures. Especially the six circles of drawing faces- life changing! I'd love to draw animals
- My favourite activity on the ship. Fun, challenging. Drawing faces was most helpful.
- Please extend to enhancing sketches with shading techniques. Definitely more time slots would be wonderful.
