Portrait Painting in Acrylics - Arnold Library - Adult Learning

Arnold Library, Arnold

Date	21 March 2026
Time	9:30am - 3:30pm
Venue	Arnold Library, Arnold View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 15
Cost	FREE - £22

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. In this one-day workshop, learners will explore how to create a vibrant and expressive portrait painting using acrylic paints. Designed for all skill levels, the session focuses on simplifying complex portraits into manageable shapes while capturing the unique energy and structure. 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.

What will learners achieve by the end of the course?

Complete a portrait painting on canvas in an expressive style

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.

(MARKETING SKILLS).

What you will need to bring to the course:

An A4 acrylic / watercolour or mixed-media sketching pad, A4 canvas, acrylic white gesso, a range of synthetic paint brushes, acrylic paint (student grade)

Red (Magenta, Cadmium Red,

Yellow (Lemon and Cadmiun Yellow),

Blue (Ultramarine, and Cerulean),

Titanium White

Painting Portraits in Acrylics by Hashim Akib

Booking your place and fee information

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.