Garden Painting - Next Steps - High Pavement Learning Centre - Adult Learning

High Pavement Learning Centre, Sutton-in-Ashfield

Date	6 June - 11 July 2025
Sessions	Fridays: 1pm - 4pm
No. sessions	6
Venue	High Pavement Learning Centre, Sutton-in-Ashfield View venue details View on Google Maps
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 15
Cost	FREE - £63

About this course

This course guides you through the process of painting with acrylics to create unique garden scenes. The tutor will help you offering instruction and demonstration on how to use colour, texture and perspective to achieve a painterly, Impressionistic style as well as how to paint the light and shadows that create depth and dimension in your acrylic painting. This course involves working in acrylics and is more suitable for improvers.

We will look at how one might begin on a ‘blank canvas’, how to build up a work paying attention to sketching, tone and colour, how to spot problems along the way and finishing touches. 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

What will learners achieve by the end of the course?

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:

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: