Acrylic Painting (6 weeks) with Denise Harrison

Join artist and tutor Denise Harrison for a six-week acrylic painting course designed to build your confidence and skills in the medium. By exploring traditional painting subjects through a contemporary lens, you will gain skills and knowledge in composition, colour, paint application, and the creative use of gels and mediums.

Throughout the course, you will cover subjects including landscape, still life, figurative work, portraiture, and abstraction, while gradually developing your own personal style. Denise will provide individual guidance and feedback, helping each student to progress and refine their unique artistic voice.

In the last week, you will bring everything together by creating a final piece based on your chosen subject, applying the full range of skills and techniques you've learned.

Materials: Paint and quality acrylic paper will be provided. Please bring your own brushes (see list below), or purchase a brush pack at cost price during the course.

Brushes: Bakers brush (bristle or synthetic), small detailed brush (synthetic), pointed round (size 6 to 8, synthetic), small flathead (size 6, synthetic), large flathead (size 10, synthetic), filbert (size 10 to 12, bristle or synthetic).

This course is suitable for all levels.

Costs: £180

Days: 6 Monday mornings

Times: 10:00 - 13:00

Dates: 12 January to 16 February

Location: Red Room

Maximum: 8

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Denise Harrison is a trained painter having gained her BA (Hons) degree in Painting at the University of Brighton and then an MA in Painting at the University of the Arts, London (Wimbledon). She is the author of the popular book 'If You're Bored with Acrylics, Read This Book.' Denise has run creative arts classes and workshops for many years in Birmingham, London and Brighton. Her practice is based at Phoenix Art Space where she runs regular painting classes, as well as being a painting tutor at Cass Art Brighton.

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