Mixed Media Collage - Online Course - Community Learning - 15:30-17:30

Online Courses, Nottingham

Date	24 February - 24 March 2022
Sessions	Thursdays: 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 aim of the course is to guide learners through non- traditional methods of using materials and tools by exploring the playful act of experimentation, using acrylic painting techniques. With a different theme each term, learners will be encouraged to explore a range of experimental approaches to art through drawing, painting and collage, the processes and materials themselves will be a source of inspiration. Learners have the opportunity to work from both observation and imagination with opportunity for individual projects. Through guided exercises, the course offers the opportunity to widen learners creative expression, address creative ‘blocks’ and encourage more spontaneity and mindfulness in making art.

This course is teaching you to loosen up your painting style and to work with the materials and tools more imaginatively. Learn how less is more when painting. During the course we will research mixed-media artists like Susan Cornelis, 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 techniques (including collage) 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.

Understand mark-making by completing several exercises using different tools (sponge, silicone spatula, pallete knife, card, nail brush, squeegee)

You will need:

40 x 50 cm Stretched canvas/ Canvas board, acrylic paint (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, tissue paper, different types of paper, glue

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: