Beginner's Acrylic Painting

Over a 3 day course you will learn a variety of traditional painting techniques using acrylics.

***To avoid a non-refundable booking fee and pay by card, cheque or cash, please contact dot-art Services directly on 0345 017 6660***

Saturdays, 11am - 4:00pm starting 7th December (£135 for 3 sessions)

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Programme:

This painting course will be open to all abilities from complete beginners to those who haven’t picked up a paintbrush since school, to those who use art as a hobby, as well as artists wanting to develop their own work and practice. Over the course of 3 weeks, you will develop your awareness of painting using acrylic as a unique means of visual communication.

Each session will give you the opportunity to use your imagination and develop those inventive processes alongside traditional and contemporary techniques. You will make art as an artist does and develop your project from its conceptual beginning to its physical end. The course will help you develop a deeper understanding of art and how as practitioners we think and realise work.

Day 1: Introduction

• Basics of acrylic paint, properties, and solvents
• Properties of colour: value, saturation, and hue
• Colour theory: primary, secondary, and the rest; colour mixing
• Making value and saturation charts
• Mixing secondary colours as well as some random target colours

Day 2: Drawing and painting from a picture

• Introduction to gridding method to draw and paint from a printed and digital pictures
• Creating painting from one printed and one digital photo using a grid.

Day 3: Drawing and painting from life

• With the techniques learnt over the previous 2 days, you will apply your learning to execute a drawing and painting from life.

Tutor: Laleh Kamalian

Laleh Kamalian is a self-taught artist who found art at a late stage of her life after a long career in medicine and science. Her favourite subject is human portrait, where she aims to show the characteristics and emotions of the portrayed to the best of her ability. However, she enjoys describing the nature beauties in the form of flowers, scenery, or wildlife with her art too.

Dates

7th, 14th & 21st December

Venue

Museum of Liverpool

Pier Head

Liverpool

L3 1DG

Cost

£135

It is possible to split this cost into two payments, please call 0345 017 6660 for more details.

Materials you will need to bring:

Acrylic paint: A set, or individual tubes, that contain at least titanium white, red, yellow, blue, and black.

Brushes: Synthetic brushes suitable for acrylic paint, at least in three sizes, small, medium, and large (not wider than 2 cm). If you are getting a set, they normally come in different shapes. If you are buying them individually, go for filbert.

Paper: A pad of paper suitable for acrylic paint, size A3.

Palette knife: Go for a longer shape such as diamond or rectangular shape.

Painting palette: I recommend a pad of disposable pallet papers, although you can get a rigid one (wooden or plastic) or use disposable paper plates.

A pencil

An eraser

A pencil sharpener

Please bring with you a cup, or jar for water

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Notes

There are a maximum of 16 places available on the course, so early booking is essential. To avoid a booking fee and pay by card, cheque or cash, please contact dot-art Services directly on 0345 017 6660.

Cancellations / Refunds

Once you have made your course booking your are committed to it. This is because our courses have very small student numbers, and often sell-out and are unavailable to others. Therefore any cancellations may result in a place not being filled, or a course not being able to run.

Cancellations are permitted up to 30 days before the start of a course, and a full refund will be issued. Refunds will not be made for cancellations less than 30 days before the start of a course. If you are unable to attend due to illness, personal or professional commitments you do not have the right to a refund.

If we are unable to deliver a course due to low bookings, tutor illness or venue unavailability we will process the dot-art amount of the course tickets. Please note the booking fee is non-refundable as this charge does not go to the organiser. To avoid the booking fee please book over the phone with us on 0345 017 6660 and have your card details to hand. Or you can pay in person with cash, card or cheque in dot-art Gallery, Queen Avenue, Liverpool.

If you wish to cancel your place on a course that has not yet started and you have a friend or colleague who can take your place we can accommodate this substitution.

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