Semi-Abstract Landscape Painting-Online Course-Community Learning-09:30-12:00

Important update: Bookings will close 7 days before the course starts.

Date	16 September - 14 October 2021
Sessions	Thursdays: 9:30am - 12pm
No. sessions	5
Venue	Online Courses, Nottingham View venue details View on Google Maps
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 10
Cost	FREE - £56.25

About this course

This course has been created to show you a more varied and exciting approach to landscape painting. During the course you are encouraged to explore acrylics as a medium. Working from photographs, this course will give you plenty of instruction from your tutor, as well as informal group critiques and discussions, all helping to increase your knowledge and enjoyment of landscape painting in a semi-abstract style. This course via Zoom, will feel like a ‘one to one’ master class where you will discover a variety of methods & techniques.

What will be covered on the course? What will be taught to learners?

Artist research: Soraya French & Irina Laube
Working out innovative, dynamic compositions
Using a bright, colourful palette, with dynamic and bold mark making
Painting techniques: impasto, scumbling, sgrafitto and blending

What will learners achieve by the end of the course?

Learners will know how to use quick and bold marks with thick paint to create expressive landscapes in acrylics. We will explore how shadow and light patterns can really help to give perspective and how this information can be used to create the atmosphere of an semi-abstracted landscape.

What skills or knowledge do learners already need to have to attend the course?

None

Learners will require-

40 x 50 cm Stretched canvas/ Canvas board, acrylic paper, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Yellow, Lemon Yellow, Cobalt Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Umber, and Titanium White acrylic paint, white acrylic gesso, palette, glycerin, spray bottle, a range of synthetic paint brushes, graphite pencils, metal palette knife, silicone spatula, photo reference.

As this course is online, a suitable device such as laptop, smart phone, tablet or computer will be required to access the course. Zoom will be used for the live sessions and the link will be sent to you once your enrolment has been completed.

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/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and 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: