Watercolours for Beginners - High Pavement Learning Centre - Adult Learning

High Pavement Learning Centre, Sutton-in-Ashfield

Date	24 April - 22 May 2025
Sessions	Thursdays: 1pm - 3pm
No. sessions	5
Venue	High Pavement Learning Centre, Sutton-in-Ashfield View venue details View on Google Maps
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 15
Cost	FREE - £35

About this course

Would you like to try your hand at watercolour? Perhaps you were not sure if you could paint but now have the time to explore as a beginner.

This course will help you build confidence in painting, beginning on a small postcard, you will explore six watercolour techniques, then move on to larger paper. Also, you do not have to be able to draw, as we will use tracing, and squaring up an image, to paint shapes from nature. We will also use angles to create perspective, and rule of three to create a simple landscape composition.

What will be covered on the course?

Session 1: Experimenting with watercolour samples
Session 2: Exploring correct ratio in colour mixing
Session 3: Using shapes and grids to help draw forms,
Session 4: Exploring methods of creating perspective

What will learners achieve by the end of the course?

Make pencil and paint marks on a postcard
Demonstrate colour mixing
Copy shapes and use grids to draw natural forms
Explore angles in perspective

What skills or knowledge do learners already need to have to attend the course?

None just an interest in painting!

The tutor will be in touch with you to advise what resources to bring to your first session.

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: