Flower Painting in Acrylics - Next Steps - High Pavement, Sutton-in-Ashfield - Adult Learning
Schedule
Thu Nov 07 2024 at 01:00 pm to Thu Dec 12 2024 at 04:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
High Pavement Learning Centre | Sutton-in-Ashfield, EN
About this Event
Key details
- Date: 7 November - 12 December 2024
- Sessions: Thursdays: 1pm - 4pm
- No. sessions: 6
- Venue: High Pavement Learning Centre, Sutton-in-Ashfield
- For ages: 19+
- Group size: 5 - 15
- Cost: FREE - £63
Give your flower paintings texture; learn how to paint leaves, stems, branches and petals, as well as how to paint the light and shadows that create depth and dimension in your acrylic painting. :
- Select appropriate photo references
- Analyse examples of winter paintings in the work of different artists
- Use different tools to create mark-making
- Colour mixing: saturated versus non saturated colours
- Sketching
- Painting technique
The course will guide you through the process of creating an Impressionistic floral still life painting in acrylics, recreating the colour palettes of nature from start to finish. You will learn a painterly, impressionistic style by using your palette knife and various brushstrokes. The course guides you through the process of creating an expressive compositions in acrylics. The course will help you to become more confident using acrylics, with tuition provided through a mixture of demonstrations and exercises according to your needs.
The course is suitable for beginners.
By the end of this course, learners will be taught how to simplify and separate tonal values into areas of light and shadow, how to use warm and cool colours effectively and how to mix and balance naturalistic greens creating a subtle acrylic palette and a realistic sense of sunlight hitting the leaves and petals, using the palette knife and become more confident in using acrylics.
Resources required by attendees:
- Acrylic paper/sketch pad, A4 canvas, white gesso, a range of synthetic paint brushes, photo reference, metallic palette knife, acrylic paint (student grade)
- Red (Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Red,
- Yellow (Lemon and Cadmiun Yellow),
- Blue (Ultramarine, and Cerulean),
- Magenta , Turquoise, Titanium white
The art materials are to be discussed during the first session of the course when the tutor will cover the topic.
If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/
To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:
- Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
- Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.
You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.
To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.
Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).
As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:
- Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
- Greater London
- Greater Manchester
- Liverpool City Region
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
- Tees Valley
- West of England
- West Midlands
- West Yorkshire
Check the FAQs page, or get in touch:
- By phone: 01623 677 200
- By email: [email protected]
Where is it happening?
High Pavement Learning Centre, High Pavement House, Sutton-in-Ashfield, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 0.00 to GBP 63.00