Landscape Painting - Peak District 2 - Online Course - Community Learning - 09:30-12:00

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

Date	8 - 29 July 2021
Sessions	Thursdays: 9:30am - 12pm
No. sessions	4
Venue	Online Courses, Nottingham View venue details View on Google Maps
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 10
Cost	FREE - £22.50

About this course

The course is offering you an in-depth approach to landscape painting, more suitable for improvers. The Peak District, one of the last pockets of wilderness still remaining in England, is the main subject for this painting course.

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 Acrylics.

Learners will know how to use quick and bold marks with thick paint to create an expressive landscape in acrylics. We will explore how colour, texture an perspectives create a specific place linked with the Peak District landscape.

The course will cover:

Artist research: Haidee Jo Summers and David Curtis
Working out innovative compositions and poses
Using a bright, colourful palette, with dynamic and bold mark making
Painting techniques: impasto, scumbling, sgrafitto using different tools

You will need:

40 by 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

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: