Garden Painting in Acrylics - Southwell Library - Adult Learning

About this course

The garden painting course guides you through the process of painting with acrylics to create a colourful, vibrant and unique composition. The tutor will help you offering instruction and demonstration on how to use colour, texture and perspective to achieve a painterly, Impressionistic style. With practical advice on colour mixing, techniques and exploring composition ideas, learners can develop the necessary skills to approach a painting using acrylic paint to achieve exciting and dramatic effects. You’ll work from photo references, completing several small paintings while learning key techniques, such as color mixing, layering, and capturing the fine details of flowers. This course is designed to guide you through the process of painting flowers in acrylics, using photographic references to develop your skills and confidence in nature painting. With practical advice on colour mixing, techniques and exploring composition ideas, learners can develop the necessary skills to approach a painting using acrylic paint to achieve exciting and dramatic effects. By the end of the course, you will have completed at least one painting and gained a toolkit of acrylic techniques to continue exploring nature-themed art independently. Most importantly, you’ll leave with a greater appreciation for flowers and a growing confidence in your artistic abilities. By the end of the course, you will be able to: - Completed Artist research: Soraya French and Haidee Jo Summers - Sketch and draw a composition - Simplify and separate tonal values into areas of light and shadow, - Use contrast, warm and cool colours effectively - Create naturalistic greens linked to colour mixing - 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