Figure Painting for Beginners-Mansfield Woodhouse Library-Adult Learning

Mansfield Woodhouse Library, Mansfield

Date	19 April - 24 May 2024
Sessions	Fridays: 12:30pm - 3pm
No. sessions	6
Venue	Mansfield Woodhouse Library, Mansfield View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 12
Cost	FREE - £39

About this course

The course guides you through the process of painting with acrylics to create figures in the landscape. The tutor will help you offering instruction and demonstration on how to use colour, texture and perspective to achieve a painterly, Impressionistic style as well as how to paint the light and shadows that create depth and dimension in your acrylic painting. This course involves working in acrylics.

We will look at how one might begin on a ‘blank canvas’, how to build up a work paying attention to sketching, tone and colour, how to spot problems along the way and finishing touches.

•Artist research: Haidee Jo Summers & David Curtis

•How to sketch a composition

•Simplify and separate tonal values into areas of light and shadow,

•How to use contrast, warm and cool colours effectively

•How to mix and balance naturalistic greens creating a subtle acrylic palette and a realistic sense of sunlight hitting the leaves and petals.

•Painting techniques: dry brush, layering, flat brush, gradient, glazing, visual colour mixing

Resources required by attendees

Acrylic paper
sketch pad
A4 canvases
gesso
a range of synthetic paint brushes
acrylic paint
baby wipes
cotton rags
palette.
Cadmium Red
Alizarin Crimson
Cadmium Yellow
Lemon Yellow
Cobalt Blue
Ultramarine Blue
Burnt Umber
Titanium White acrylic paint

The art materials are to be discussed during the first session of the course when the tutor will cover the topic.

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: