Abstract Landscape Painting - Southwell Library - Adult Learning

About this course

The course has been created to show you how to create an intuitive abstract landscape and how gestural brush-strokes and mark-making gives the impression of spontaneity in your compositions. You will benefit from this course as your style of painting will become looser, full of energy and colour. Experiment the pure joy of mark-making by playing with colour and texture using non-traditional tools to achieve an intuitive landscape painting in a semi-abstract style. 

On this course, you will learn how to use quick and bold marks with thick paint to create expressive abstract landscapes in acrylics. We will explore how shadow and light patterns can really help to give perspective and how this information can be used to create the atmosphere of an abstract landscape.  

We will cover: 

• Artist research: Alison Orchard 
• Working out innovative, dynamic compositions 
• Using a bright, colourful palette, with dynamic and bold mark making 
• Painting techniques: impasto, scumbling, sgrafitto and blending 
• Complete a painting in an abstract style 
• Protect your painting by varnishing it 

Resources required:

• Acrylic paper/sketch pad
• A4 canvas
• White gesso
• A range of synthetic paint brushes
• Photo reference
• Metallic palette knife
• Acrylic paint (student grade) 
• Red (Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Red,  
• Yellow (Lemon and Cadmiun Yellow),  
• Blue (Ultramarine, and Cerulean),  
• Magenta , Turquoise, Titanium white  

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, AND
• 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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• By phone: 01623 677 200
• By email: learning@inspireculture.org.uk

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