Name: Landscape Painting in Acrylics - Mansfield Woodhouse Library - Adult Learning
Start: 2025-02-25T13:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-04-01T16:00:00+00:00
Location: Mansfield-Woodhosue Library

Landscape Painting in Acrylics - Mansfield Woodhouse Library - Adult Learning

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About this Event
Key details

Date: 25 February - 1 April 2025
Sessions: Tuesdays: 1pm - 4pm
No. sessions: 6
Venue: Mansfield Woodhouse Library, Mansfield
For ages: 19+
Group size: 5 - 10
Cost: FREE - £63

About this course

Unlock your creativity by creating a lively landscape with excellent composition. Express yourself using acrylic paint and a palette knife to create fun textures. With practical advice on colour mixing, techniques and exploring composition ideas, learners can develop the necessary skills to approach a painting using mark-making to achieve exciting and vibrant landscape painting.

You will be guided step-by-step in order to build your skills and confidence, focusing on subjects like composition and mark-making using rhythm, repetition and intuition:

- Get loose and explore exciting ways to apply the paint

- Enhance your paintings with palette knife technique

- Ensure pleasing composition with simple rules

- Add abstract elements to your work, such as varied brush marks and scribble writing

- Complete a landscape painting on canvas

- Protect your painting by varnishing it

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: