Drawing and Painting Still Life - Southwell Library - Adult Learning

About this course

Drawing and Painting Still Life course offers a structured and creative exploration of still life through both drawing and painting. Ideal for beginners and improvers, it will guide you through essential techniques while encouraging your own creative expression. You’ll work from real objects and carefully arranged compositions, learning how to observe form, shape, light, and texture. Each week builds on core skills—from line drawing and tonal shading to colour mixing and composition in paint. You'll experiment with pencil, charcoal, and acrylics, gaining confidence in translating what you see into expressive and visually engaging artwork. The course blends demonstrations, guided practice, and individual support to help you develop both technical skills and a personal style. By the end of the course, you will be able to: Produce a series of at least three still life studies in both drawing and painting media, showing development in composition and observation. Accurately draw simple objects from observation, demonstrating understanding of proportion and basic perspective. Apply at least two shading techniques to represent light and shadow in a pencil or charcoal drawing. Mix and apply a minimum of six colours using acrylic paint to represent realistic or expressive colour in a still life composition. Design a balanced still life composition, considering shape, space, and focal points, and complete it as a final artwork. 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.

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