The Team:
The North and South Island Airbrush Venturi schools are operated independently.
In the North Island the 10 Day Course, Advanced Courses and the Custom Graphics Course are offered every
6 months. The courses held at the PPG Training Centre in Mt Wellington are all taught by the founder of Airbrush Venturi, Tony Vowles. Tony has been teaching in Auckland twice a year since 2005.
In the South Island the Fast Track Course is offered once a year. The course is conducted in Avonhead in Christchurch and is taught by Peter Healey, a highly qualified lecturer at SIT teaching spray painting and custom painting. Peter learnt with Tony in 2006 and in 2010 joined Airbrush Venturi as a regional manager and teacher.
The Local Course Structure:
It must be stressed that regardless of what course format you do, the actual course structure will remain the same. You will do exactly the same modules and be taught identical skills in all the course formats. This gives you the freedom to choose what suits you best and not worry that one course is delivering better outcomes than another.
Click here to go to the Course Location Timetable to see the actual course dates.
10 Day Courses (every 6 months):
The 10 Day Course format produces some of the highest quality outcomes of all our courses. While it may not provide the flexibility of the Night Courses where people can come and go term by term, the quality of the artworks the students are producing is extremely high. Breaking the full Venturi Method course into two major sections also avoids the “information overload” of the extremely intense 15 Day Courses that used to be offered in Auckland.
Monday to Friday
Hours – 10.00am (9.30 arrival) to 5.30pm
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Cost:
| 10 Day – Adults | $1200 + GST (no student concession)  |
Everything is included – no additional costs.
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Advanced 5 Day Courses (every 6 months):
The 5 Day Advanced Courses are the most advanced that Airbrush Venturi offers across the OZ and NZ region. By extending the courses into the 5 Day Course format, Tony Vowles is able to teach the various courses below to a depth previously not possible.
You are free to choose any of the below courses in any sequence you like, but make sure you discuss your preferences directly with Tony as some are much harder than others. The sequence of the below list is the suggested sequence to follow.
• Advanced Land Wildlife – Fur (the tiger project)
• Advanced Land Wildlife – Hide (the elephant project)
• Advanced Land Wildlife – Scales (the snake project)
• Advanced Sea Wildlife – Mammals (the dolphin project)
• Advanced Sea Wildlife – Scales (the fish project)
• Advanced Sea Wildlife – Exoskeleton (the crab project)
• Advanced Air Wildlife – Flying (the eagle project)
• Advanced Air Wildlife – Perched (the kingfisher project)
• Advanced Landscapes – Mountain and cloudscapes
• Advanced Landscapes – Beach and sunset cloudscapes
• Advanced Landscapes – Timelapse change of light of landscapes
• Advanced Landscapes – Cityscapes / Storms / Lightening etc
• Advanced Portraiture – Positive Space / Single Sequence Portraiture
• Advanced Portraiture – Complex colour portraiture
• Cartooning on Clothing – Commercial t-shirt airbrushing
• Cartooning on Clothing – Commercial t-shirt lettering
• Cartooning on Clothing – Designing your own cartoon characters
Monday to Friday
Hours – 10.00am (9.30 arrival) to 5.30pm
Cost:
| 5 Day Advanced Courses – Adults | $600 (no student concession) |
Everything is included – no additional costs.
Click here to go to the Course Location Timetable to see the actual course dates.
Fast Track Courses (Weekend based courses):
The Fast Track Course is like the 10 Day Courses, for people who are serious about their airbrush training and want to do the entire Venturi Method in less than one year. The course is held over one weekend per month for ten months, allowing a months practice between each weekend.
The standard of artworks thaty have been coming out of the Christchurch Fast Track Course have been second-to-none.
When:
1 weekend per month,
Hours – 10.00am (9.30am arrival) to 5.30pm
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Cost:
| Fast Track Course – Adults | $1960.00 + GST |
| Fast Track Course – Students | $1740.00 + GST |
Everything is included – no additional costs.
Click here to go to the Course Location Timetable to see the actual course dates.
We supply everything:
The courses we conduct are very intensive, and it is important that the preparation and organisation for them be very thorough. If every student brought their own equipment it would be a nightmare to co-ordinate and seriously reduce the quality of our courses. For Airbrush Venturi to offer the best courses possible, we must provide carefully chosen equipment and materials for you.
* Note: Students may bring their own airbrushes into the classroom but Airbrush Venturi does not accept responsibility for the security and performance of outside equipment.
While the whole point of doing classes is so that you can airbrush at home, and will therefore need to have your own set-up there . . . it is unreasonable to expect that you set yourself up at home, until you know whether you enjoy it and feel that you would like to go on and take the art form seriously.
By Airbrush Venturi providing everything in class, you get to try out airbrushing and then if you enjoy it, you can then take the next step of setting yourself up at home and start doing your own projects. Airbrush Venturi does not sell airbrush equipment and materials. While it is afffiliated with Airbrush Focus PL, the Airbrush Venturi team only teach airbrushing.
We supply the highest quality equipment and materials you can get in the world. We supply the worlds best airbrushes, airlines, couplings, inks, papers, masking materials; everything. This includes height adjustable easels that enable you to raise and lower you work, to set up every stroke in the best way possible.
Your fees include comprehensive course notes that build into a 500+ page manual over the 5 units of the course, the most comprehensive book on airbrush techniques you could ever wish for. Everything is laid on, to ensure you have the best possible training experience and achieve the best results possible.