Acrylic Painting & Drawing

Acrylic painting & drawing is a journey from the energy of the sketchbook to the expressive potential of acrylic paint on canvas, board or paper.

What The Course is About:

Acrylic painting & drawing is a journey from the energy of the sketchbook to the expressive potential of acrylic paint on canvas, board or paper. We'll explore how drawing serves as a way into a painting. The class guides you through the essentials such as colour mixing, brush work and building up a painting in layers. Each term we have a different theme which guides our work. For example last term it was "Landscape: sky, water & land".

We usually start with various drawing exercises to sharpen your observational skill, then translate these concepts into compelling acrylic paintings.

Relevant examples of work from both historic and contemporary artists will be explored and discussed. We sometimes visit a gallery or museum to draw.

Materials Required:

An A4 sketchbook and a range of drawing media including pencils, charcoal, black ink and marker pens.

We will be painting with – Acrylics and brushes

Previous Experience:

All Levels

End of course:

You will be able to:

Use a range of drawn studies and media as an aid to preparing for a painting.
Understand and use the basic approaches to painting such as colour mixing, tonal contrasts, creating textures etc.
Combine a range painting approaches to produce developed pieces of work.