Floral Abstractions - Beginners - Mansfield Woodhouse Library - Adult Learning

About this course

The course offers a perfect environment to achieve your artistic potential. Create abstract floral compositions by experimenting with media and tools. Floral art in an abstract style brings the spotlight onto the colours. Painting abstract helps learners let loose and unleash their creativity in the most invigorating ways. Join us and connect with fellow art enthusiasts in a supportive and inspiring environment and let the beauty of flowers bloom through your creativity! 

You’ll discover innovative techniques and modern approaches to capturing the beauty and essence of flowers on canvas. Guided by an experienced tutor, you will learn to blend colours, create striking compositions, and use brushstrokes that convey movement and vitality. Our focus on a fresh and contemporary style will inspire you to break away from traditional methods and experiment with bold, expressive forms and a vibrant palette. 

• Artist research and examples of floral painting 
• Colour mixing and composition studies 
• Surface preparation and sketching 
• Painting techniques: layering, impasto and glazing 
• Complete a painting on canvas 
• Protect your painting by varnishing it 

Resources required by attendees:

• 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.
• 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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