LifeArt School and Online Academy

Leonie Brown is a amazing artist who brings the most ordinary to life -opening and taking one's heart on the deep and beautiful work of soul making" (Sue Monk Kidd) that we are all on. She is a gifted teacher who takes you through the process of art step by step giving you the tools and skills to work independently and with creative freedom. She is encouraging when you think you couldn't possibly draw or paint and has the gift of "stepping on one's shoes without messing up their shine" . Thanks Leonie"

Thanks to Leonie E Brown, I now have a workable website! Her dedication to help others at great sacrifice to her personal time, as well as the wealth of experience she has gathered over the years, has been such a great source of help, direction and focus for me. Thank you Leonie for supporting unselfishly, other artists who are just starting out.

About 10 years ago, after a significant change in my life and with basically no experience with drawing, painting or art in any way at all, I started attending classes with professional artist, Leonie E. Brown. When I say basically no experience, I am talking about literally only being able to draw stick me and colour in colouring books. Talk about going in blind!A few lessons in (just the very basics really), the class at the time had the awesome opportunity of going on a 5-star weekend getaway at Angala Boutique Hotel for a portrait painting workshop. Here she taught us a special recipe using just four earthy colours being: burnt sienna, burnt umber, payne’s grey, yellow ochre. With just those four colours, one could play with the concepts, dark versus light and warm versus cold. Focusing on blending and adding one concept at time, we were taught to add as per our portrait picture we wanted to paint, blended shades of darks, matching warm (e.g. burnt sienna) and cold (e.g. payne’s grey) darks. Then we would add all the blended shades of white, warm and cold lights by mixing in titanium white, yellow ochre. I was amazed that in no time without much effort a portrait appeared! With this technique one really does not even have to draw the face first exactly in pencil, placing the dark, light, warm and cold in the right places, the picture just magically appears. Exceptional!To this day, regardless of all the other lessons I had with Leonie after, I absorbed this recipe in every art piece I do. I even use this recipe to lay the ground work or base layer for my more colourful work, as a guide for the warm, cold, dark and light colours. Sometimes, I just use those beautiful colours in my entire work and maybe here and there add another colour to make the piece pop!

I have learnt various techniques in the past year, both in theory and practice. Leonie is very encouraging and she has amazing teaching skills. I always look forward to go to her art classes.

If you’re looking for an art school this is the best place to be leonie is a fantastic teacher and amazing person. It doesn’t matter how good you are at art, lifeart school is the best place to learn or expand your knowledge of art.

Leonie's art classes are in a class of their own. I don't know of any teachers who give their students the foundation to build on that she does. I don't know many teachers who give the students what they need, and not necessarily what they want. In other words, hurry up and teach me and show me immediate results!" No. That's not the way she teaches. Leonie teaches through demonstration

Leonie is a great teacher always smiling and willing to help - doesn't matter at what stage in art you are. She is very strict, take no short cuts & doesn't let anybody take short cuts. She keep by the book in her methods of art & teaching (from drawing in pencil throughout to the start of your 1st painting). After a class you feel satisfied with your progress and positive to for next session.

If you wanting to rekindle or explore your creative side I highly recommend that you contact Leonie at Lifeart Studio and school . Leonie offers short courses as well as weekly art classes. Leonie is an amazing teacher as well as a accomplished and very talented artist . I attended one of her short courses and absolutely love it and will definitely be attending another one soon

Leonie was the best art teacher, I ever had. She pays equal attention to every student in class, making sure to teach or give advice to one after the other while taking their different skill levels into account.She is always friendly and respectful and is not only interested in her student's progress but also in them enjoying what they do.No matter what skill level you are, even if you're beginning from scratch - I would definitely recommend LifeArt School.