Key details
- Date: 4 June - 9 July 2024
- Sessions: Tuesdays: 12pm - 2:30pm
- No. sessions: 6
- Venue: Mansfield Woodhouse Library, Mansfield
- For ages: 19+
- Group size: 5 - 12
- Cost: FREE - £39
About this course
This course will help you to paint in the Impressionistic style. Every week we will study one of the French painters to better understand the style and you will complete one small painting in the style of the artist. Tuition is provided through a mixture of demonstrations and exercises according to your needs.
During the course, the principles of drawing and painting are progressively practiced with techniques, including drawing composition and perspective. You will discover how to apply contrast, colour theory, and tonal values to create beautiful paintings that burst with light using acrylics on canvas. By the end of the course, you will be more confident to:
•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 blues creating a subtle acrylic palette and a realistic sense of sunlight
Resources required by attendees
- 30 x 40 cm stretched canvas
- canvas board
- acrylic paper
- sketch pad
- acrylic paint
- Cadmium Red
- Alizarin Crimson
- Magenta
- Cadmium Yellow
- Lemon Yellow
- Cobalt Blue
- Ultramarine Blue
- Burnt Umber
- Titanium White acrylic paint
- white acrylic
- gesso
- palette
- glycerin
- spray bottle
- a range of synthetic paint brushes
- graphite pencils
- metal palette knife
- silicone spatula
- baby wipes
- cotton rags.
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:
- 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
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