Still Life Painting in Acrylics - Next Steps - Mansfield Central Library - Adult Learning

• Date: 8 November - 13 December 2024
• Sessions: Fridays: 1pm - 4pm
• No. sessions: 6
• Venue: Mansfield Central Library, Mansfield
• For ages: 19+
• Group size: 5 - 15
• Cost: FREE - £63

Explore the timeless art of capturing everyday objects in an abstracted and modern light. This course will encourage you to look closely at fruit, vessels and cut flowers and simplify them to their core components. The aim is to suggest things and not to overly describe a thing. Experiment with expressive mark-making, colour combinations and texture. This course will ignite your creativity, expand your visual language and deepen your understanding of composition, colour and form.

This course focuses on how to arrange shapes and apply vivid colours on the painting surface to achieve interesting visual effects

• Selecting appropriate photo references
• Analysing examples of contemporary still life painting
• Prepare the surface to receive the painting
• Sketch the composition on paper and canvas
• Work with complementary colours
• Varnishing

Please bring:

• Acrylic or watercolour paper, white acrylic gesso, 30x 40cm stretched canvas, palette knife (not plastic), glycerin*, spray bottle, synthetic brushes, apron, baby wipes, cotton rags , photo references, acrylic paint:
• 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 furtherinformation 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.

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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).

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• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Greater London
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• Liverpool City Region
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
• Tees Valley
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