Floral Abstractions for Beginners-Mansfield Woodhouse-Adult Learning

• Date: 4 June - 9 July 2024
• Sessions: Tuesdays: 9:30am - 11:30am
• No. sessions: 6
• Venue: Mansfield Woodhouse Library, Mansfield
• For ages: 19+
• Group size: 5 - 15
• Cost: FREE - £30

The course shows you how gestural brushstrokes and mark-making gives the impression of spontaneity in your compositions. Create abstract floral compositions by experimenting with media and tools. Learn how to create impact in a composition by capturing vibrant colours, movement, textures. With practical advice on fundamentals of colour mixing and exploring mark-making techniques you can develop the necessary skills to approach an abstract flower composition using acrylics. 

By the end of the course, you will know how to compose an abstract image and how to manipulate the acrylic paint by using different techniques to create abstract flower compositions. You will complete at least one work on canvas.  We will look at how one might begin on a ‘blank canvas’, how to build up a work, paying attention to tone and colour, how to spot problems along the way and finishing touches.   

•Artist research: Petra Tholken 

•Working out innovative, dynamic compositions, full of energy and colours 

•Using a bright, colourful palette, with dynamic and bold mark making 

•Painting techniques: impasto, scumbling, sgrafitto, drips and blending 

Resources required by attendees

• Acrylic paper
• sketch pad
• A4 canvases
• gesso
• a range of synthetic paint brushes
• acrylic paint
• baby wipes
• cotton rags
• palette. 

The art materials are to be discussed during the first session of the course when the tutor will cover the topic. 

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

Check the FAQs page, or get in touch:

• By phone: 01623 677 200
• By email: [email protected]

Visit the Inspire website for full details and booking options

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Mansfield Central Library, Church Street, Mansfield, United Kingdom