The Sketch Pad

The Sketch Pad Art Club for Kids and Young Adults, Wainuiomata 🎨

🎨💥 LOOK WHAT OUR LITTLE ARTISTS HAVE BEEN UP TO! 💥🎨Our Sketch Pad Exhibition is ON NOW at the Pito One Depot in Petone —...
09/09/2026

🎨💥 LOOK WHAT OUR LITTLE ARTISTS HAVE BEEN UP TO! 💥🎨

Our Sketch Pad Exhibition is ON NOW at the Pito One Depot in Petone — and honestly… these kids have absolutely smashed it! 🥹🩷

From colourful creations to seriously impressive artwork, it’s a fabulous little celebration of what happens when you give young people some art supplies, a bit of encouragement and let them GO FOR IT! 🎨✨

And because every exhibition needs a little celebration… 🥳

🩷 EXHIBITION CELEBRATION AFTERNOON TEA 🩷
This Sunday | 12–2pm
📍 Pito One Depot, Petone
✨ Everyone welcome!

Come along, check out the exhibition, celebrate our young artists and have a cuppa with us! ☕️🎨

Here’s just a little peek at some of the fabulous artwork on show… 👀

Come see what they’ve been creating! We think you’re going to LOVE it. 🩷

✏️🖤 PENCIL DRAWING AT THE SKETCH PAD! 🩶🤍A few of our young artists requested a pencil drawing class this term… so we lis...
09/09/2026

✏️🖤 PENCIL DRAWING AT THE SKETCH PAD! 🩶🤍

A few of our young artists requested a pencil drawing class this term… so we listened! 🥰

This week we’re taking one of the simplest art tools — the humble pencil — and turning it into something seriously cool.

We’ll explore different shading techniques, from soft and subtle to dark and dramatic, then put them to work creating a unique pure pencil drawing using nothing but graphite, shading and imagination. 🖤🤍🩶

We can’t wait to see what our young artists create!

We’ll 2B seeing you soon! ✏️😉

09/09/2026

🌈✂️ PAPER MOSAIC MADNESS! ✂️🌈

Ohhhh we loved this one! 😍

Our Sketch Pad artists got busy building their own pictures from teeny tiny pieces of colourful paper — and WOW, did they have fun! 🎨

Piece by piece, colour by colour, their images slowly appeared… and every single one turned out completely different and totally unique. 🩷

There was a LOT of cutting, sticking, rearranging and the occasional “NOOOO, I NEED THAT PIECE!” 😂

But the best bit? Watching the kids get completely absorbed in creating their own little worlds.

Colourful, creative, wonderfully individual — just how we like it at The Sketch Pad! 🌈✨

04/09/2026

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🎨✨ The Sketch Pad September Pop-Up Exhibition is OPEN! ✨🎨We’re so excited to have a little selection of our young artist...
03/09/2026

🎨✨ The Sketch Pad September Pop-Up Exhibition is OPEN! ✨🎨

We’re so excited to have a little selection of our young artists’ wonderful creations on display at The Pito One Depot, Petone! Expect colour, imagination, feathers, flowers, masks, sculptures, paintings and plenty of creative magic. 🌈🖌️

The exhibition is on until September 26th — and we’d LOVE you to come along and see what our talented young artists have been making!

🩷 Exhibition Celebration Afternoon Tea
📅 Sunday 13th September
⏰ 12–2pm
📍 The Pito One Depot, Petone
All welcome — bring your friends & whānau! 🥰🎨

Come celebrate our little artists with us! 🩷✨

02/09/2026

🎨🔥 THE LAST TWO WEEKS AT THE SKETCH PAD HAVE BEEN EPIC! 🔥🎨

Our young artists have been VERY busy little creatives, tackling not one but TWO big projects over the last two weeks! 😮‍💨🙌

First up… a Banksy-inspired graffiti masterpiece 🧑‍🎨🎨 — think stencils, spray paint, bold ideas and a whole lot of creative chaos!

Then it was time to get our hands dirty creating Garden Guardian Masks 🌿👺 — with plenty of experimenting, problem-solving and letting those imaginations go completely wild!

There has been SO much laughter, excitement, concentration and creative mayhem happening in the studio… and honestly, we wouldn’t have it any other way! 😂

And the finished pieces? AMAZING. 🤩👏

You guys absolutely smashed it. We are SO proud of you! 💪🏼❤️

Now… who’s ready for the next creative adventure? 👀🎨✨

Keep making. Keep experimenting. Keep getting messy. Keep being YOU. 🌈

🎨 GRAFFITI TIME! 💥Today at The Sketch Pad we’re getting stuck into the colourful world of graffiti! We’ll explore graffi...
20/08/2026

🎨 GRAFFITI TIME! 💥

Today at The Sketch Pad we’re getting stuck into the colourful world of graffiti! We’ll explore graffiti vocabulary, symbols, tags and techniques before creating our own unique graffiti backgrounds. 🖌️✨

And this is just the beginning… next week we’ll bring it all together with a Banksy-inspired stencil spray! 🖤

Get creative, experiment, make your mark — and most importantly… HAVE FUN! 🎨💥

19/08/2026

🌸 Last week at The Sketch Pad… our artists made blooms using BAGS! 🌸

We started by revisiting oil pastels, creating leafy foliage emerging from our collage vases. We remembered just how much fun they are to smudge and blend, building layers of tone, texture and unique mark-making. 🎨🌿

Then came the REALLY fun part… lots of blowing (and plenty of popping! 😂) as we turned bags into our very own painting tools to create gorgeous, one-of-a-kind flowers. 💥🌸

The results were blooming lovely! 🌼✨

We love experimenting, exploring and discovering that art can be made with just about anything! 💕 #

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