Contemporary Lansdscape Painting - Southwell Library - Adult Learning

Southwell Library, Southwell

Date	4 June - 9 July 2025
Sessions	Wednesdays: 10am - 1pm
No. sessions	6
Venue	Southwell Library, Southwell View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 10
Cost	FREE - £63

About this course

Learn to use innovative painting exercises and unconventional tools to discover new possibilities for your landscape painting. This extended course ensures you stretch your techniques; experiment in your approach and discover a variety of methods and techniques to increase enjoyment of landscape painting in a semi-abstract style. This course is designed for beginners or more experimented learners.

The emphasis of the course is to focus on editing, colour balance, tone and composition. Explore process: techniques of mark making with complementary and monochromatic colour palette to achieve interesting visual effects:

- Selecting appropriate photo references

- Analysing examples of contemporary still life painting

- Prepare the surface to receive the painting

- Sketch the composition on paper and canvas

- Work with complementary colours

- Varnishing

Resources required:

Acrylic or watercolour paper
White acrylic gesso
30 x 40cm stretched canvass
Photo references
Metallic palette knife
Acrylic paint (student grade)
Glycerin*
Spray bottle
Synthetic Brushes
Apron
Baby Wipes
Cotton Rags

Acrylic Paint:

Red (Alizarin Crimson, Cadmium Red
Yellow (Lemon and Cadmiun Yellow)
Blue (Ultramarine, and Cerulean)
Magenta, Turquoise, Titanium White

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: