Expressive Portrait Painting - Advanced - Mansfield Woodhouse Library - Adult Learning

About this course

Unleash your inner artist as you create stunning contemporary portraits, capturing the essence and personality of your subjects. This course shows you how working quickly and pushing false colours can add impact to a portrait. Over a series of structured sessions, you'll develop your understanding of facial structure, colour theory, and acrylic techniques—then push those foundations into expressive, personal territory. Through guided exercises, live demonstrations, and individual feedback, you’ll learn to use bold brushstrokes, unexpected colour palettes, and experimental textures to communicate mood, identity, and emotion in your portraits. You will be taught the spontaneity of mark making and an instinctive approach to colour and tone to achieve an expressive portraiture painting in acrylic. By the end of the course, each participant will complete a powerful, expressive portrait that reflects their unique interpretation and style. - Practice fundamentals of facial structure and proportions - Apply techniques for expressive mark-making and dynamic brushwork - Use acrylic mediums and colour to build texture and depth - Developing a personal visual language in portraiture - Apply principles of light and shadow in portraiture. - 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