Abstracting the Landscape - Advanced - Mansfield Woodhouse Library - Adult Learning

About this course

Take your landscape painting to the next level in this advanced course designed for those with prior experience in acrylics who want to deepen their skills and develop a more expressive approach to painting. This course will challenge you to push the boundaries of traditional landscape painting, allowing you to explore bold techniques, unique compositions, and emotional depth in your work. Through expert demonstrations, guided exercises, and individualised feedback, you'll learn advanced acrylic techniques such as glazing, texture building, and incorporating mixed media elements. You’ll explore how to capture atmosphere, mood, and movement within a landscape, experimenting with colour theory, dynamic compositions, and the manipulation of light and shadow. With a focus on developing a personal style and expressive voice, you’ll be encouraged to break away from photographic reference and embrace your creativity, whether working from memory, imagination, or abstract interpretation. By the end of the course, you'll have a portfolio of advanced landscape paintings that showcase your technical growth and personal artistic expression. By the end of the Expressive Landscapes in Acrylics advanced course, you will be able to: - Demonstrate advanced acrylic techniques – Use at least three advanced acrylic techniques (such as glazing, impasto, and texture-building) to enhance the depth, atmosphere, and texture in your landscape paintings. - Create a minimum of two finished, expressive landscape paintings – Produce two completed landscape works that reflect personal style, composition, and emotional depth, using a mix of traditional and experimental techniques. - Apply advanced colour theory – Use colour in a more sophisticated way by incorporating complementary, analogous, and dynamic colour schemes to evoke mood and energy within your landscapes. - Develop and refine your personal artistic voice – Create a landscape painting from memory, imagination, or abstraction, moving beyond photographic reference to express unique perspectives and interpretations. - Critically reflect on your work – Provide a reflective self-assessment of your progress, identifying strengths, areas for growth, and techniques you plan to continue exploring post-course. - Develop and implement a marketing plan using at least 3 different channels (e.g., social media, email marketing, and local events) to promote their products. (MARKETING SKILLS).

Booking your place and fee information

Booking your place and fee information 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 Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course. To 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