Painting the Sky in Acrylics - Next Steps - Southwell Library - Adult Learning

About this course

Discover how to capture the beauty, drama, and atmosphere of the sky in this relaxed, follow up friendly painting course. Whether you're inspired by soft morning light, glowing sunsets, or expressive storm clouds, this 6 weeks course will guide you through the process of painting skies using acrylics. This course offers a supportive space for you to explore painting skies while developing your skills and personal style with acrylics. Through step-by-step demonstrations and hands-on exercises, you’ll learn how to work with colour blending, layering, and brush techniques to create realistic and expressive skies. You’ll explore how light, weather, and time of day affect mood and composition—and how to translate that onto the canvas in your own way. Perfect for those new to acrylics or landscape painting, this course is a great opportunity to build skills, gain confidence, and go home with a beautiful sky painting of your own. By the end of the course, you will be able to: - Sketch and plan compositions, simplifying subject matter for expressive interpretation of the sky - Mix at least five colour palettes showing awareness of warm/cool contrast and colour harmony - Apply a minimum of three painting techniques, such as broken colour, visible brushstrokes, and limited detail, in their work. - Use brushwork to represent movement or changing light, in at least two different compositions - Create at least three acrylic paintings, demonstrating an understanding of light, colour, and expressive brushwork - 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