Landscape Painting in Acrylics - Southwell Library - Adult Learning

On this course, you’ll be guided step-by-step through the process of creating expressive, contemporary landscape paintings using acrylics.

You’ll begin by exploring the fundamentals—such as how to handle acrylic paint, mix colours effectively, and use brushes and other tools with confidence.

As the course progresses, you’ll learn how to compose a landscape, build layers, and create depth and atmosphere using a variety of painting techniques.

You’ll experiment with mark-making, texture, and colour mixing to bring energy and expression into your work.

The tutor will demonstrate different ways to approach landscape painting, such as working from photographs, sketches, or imagination and you’ll have plenty of time to apply these ideas in your own paintings.

Throughout the course, you’ll be encouraged to loosen up your style, try new techniques, and develop your own artistic voice.

The teaching is flexible and responsive to your needs, with one-to-one guidance and group demonstrations that support both beginners and improvers.

You’ll finish the course with a stronger understanding of how to use acrylics and a collection of your own expressive landscape paintings.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Use reference material effectively.

• Select and interpret reference images or sketches to inform the composition and mood of your landscape painting.

• Confidently use acrylic paints.

• Demonstrate control over basic acrylic painting techniques, including colour mixing, layering, and brushwork.

• Apply a range of expressive techniques.

• Experiment with and apply at least three different mark-making or textural techniques to create atmosphere and movement in your work.

• Create a completed landscape painting.

• Plan and produce at least one finished expressive landscape painting using acrylics, incorporating composition, texture, and depth.

• 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.

What you will need to bring to the course:

• Acrylic paper/ A4 canvas

• Acrylic white gesso

• A range of synthetic paint brushes

• Photo reference

• Acrylic paint (student grade):

  - Red (Magenta, Cadmium Red)

  - Yellow (Lemon and Cadmiun Yellow)

  - Blue (Ultramarine, and Cerulean)

  - Titanium white

If you receive 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 funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

• 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

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

• Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office

• You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.