Experimental Painting in Acrylic - Online Course - Community Learning - 15:30-17:30

Online Courses, Nottingham

Date	22 February - 22 March 2022
Sessions	Tuesdays: 3:30pm - 5:30pm
No. sessions	5
Venue	Online Courses, Nottingham View venue details View on Google Maps
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 15
Cost	FREE - £45

About this course

The course has been created to show you how gestural brush-strokes and mark-making gives the impression of spontaneity in your compositions. You will benefit from this course as your style of painting will become looser, full of energy and colour. Experiment the pure joy of mark-making by playing with colour and texture using non-traditional tools.

This course is teaching you to loosen up your painting style. Learn how less is more when painting. During the course we will research semi-abstract artists like Petra Tholken & Jonas Gerard, work out innovative, dynamic compositions using a bright, colourful palette, with dynamic and bold mark making and practice painting techniques like impasto, scumbling, sgrafitto, blending and glazing

Learners work on individual projects to develop confidence, skills and knowledge. By the end of the course, learners will know how to select the art materials, how to prepare the painting surface (including a textured surface), how to use media and tools to manipulate the media, using different painting techniques to create an expressive painting compositions in acrylics. We will explore how the formal elements can really help to give a ‘wow’ effect to your painting.

You will need:

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, metallic palette knife, silicone spatula, nail brush, roller, squeegee,

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: