Summer Garden Painting - Next Steps - Online Course - Community Learning - 09:30-12:00

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

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

About this course

The course is offering you an in-depth approach to painting, more suitable for improvers.

The Summer garden painting course guides you through the process of painting with acrylics to create a colourful, vibrant and unique composition The tutor will help you offering instruction and demonstration on how to use colour, texture and perspective to achieve a painterly, Impressionistic style.

Learners will know how to achieve depth and perspective as well as how to paint the light and shadows that create form, to sketch, to draw and how to mix and apply the paint on the surface using different tools to create an impressionistic style of painting in acrylics. On the course, we will cover:

Artist research: Haidee Jo Summers and David Curtis
How to sketch and draw 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

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: