Key details
- Date: 3 June - 8 July 2024
- Sessions: Mondays: 9:30am - 11:30am
- No. sessions: 6
- Venue: Newstead Community Centre, Newstead Village
- For ages: 19+
- Group size: 5 - 12
- Cost: FREE - £36
About this course
The course shows you how gestural brush-strokes and mark-making gives the impression of spontaneity in your compositions. Create abstract floral compositions by experimenting with media and tools. Learn how to create impact in a composition by capturing vibrant colours, movement, textures. Floral art in an abstract style brings the spotlight onto the colours
What will be covered on the course?
- Artist research: Petra Tholken
- Working out innovative, dynamic compositions, full of energy and colours
- Using a bright, colourful palette, with dynamic and bold mark making
- Painting techniques: impasto, scumbling, sgrafitto, drips and blending
What will learners achieve by the end of the course?
- Learners will know how to use quick and bold marks with thick paint to create expressive floral compositions in acrylics
- We will explore how texture, colour and line can really help to achieve a visually interesting composition.
Resources required by attendees
- 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
- metal palette knife
- silicone spatula
- photo reference
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:
- Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
- Greater London
- Greater Manchester
- Liverpool City Region
- Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
- Tees Valley
- West of England
- West Midlands
- West Yorkshire
Any questions?
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Book your place
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