Garden Painting - Beginners - High Pavement Learning Centre, Sutton-in-Ashfield - Adult Learning

About this course

The garden painting course for Beginners guides you through the process of painting with acrylics to create a colourful, vibrant and unique composition. The tutor will help you offering instruction and demonstration on how to use colour, texture and perspective to achieve a painterly, Impressionistic style. With practical advice on colour mixing, techniques and exploring composition ideas, learners can develop the necessary skills to approach a painting using acrylic paint to achieve exciting and dramatic effects.

You will be guided step-by-step in order to build your skills and confidence, focusing on subjects like sketching, painting principles and colour mixing. On the course, we will cover: 

• Artist research: Haidee Jo Summers and David Curtis 
• How to sketch and draw 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 greens creating a subtle acrylic palette and a realistic sense of sunlight hitting the leaves and petals. 
• Painting techniques: dry brush, layering, flat brush, gradient, glazing, visual colour mixing 

Learners will know how to achieve depth and perspective as well as how to paint the light and shadows that create form, to sketch, to draw and how to mix and apply the paint on the surface using different tools to create an impressionistic style of painting in acrylics. 

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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