Have you always wanted to paint, but unsure how to begin? Learn to paint using acrylics with our painting short courses. Get fun and open your creativity. Our skilled tutor will help you how to paint with acrylics and unleash your inner artist.

Acrylic is very easy to use and quick to dry and is versatile to use in paper, canvas, wood, glass and ceramics. Get the knowledge to create lovely paintings on Canvas and start your creative journey. Learn different acrylic painting techniques and experiment with different brushes and pallet knives.

We will get painting using methods that will give you great results even if you’ve got no artistic training before. We will cover a wide range of techniques from classical realism to a more modern abstract approach. At the end, you would have created different paintings with different styles and you will have a really good solid foundation of how acrylics work and then you will be able to develop all the paintings you’ve ever dreamt about! You could find yourself as an artist creator at the end.

So why don’t you grab a brew maybe a couple of biscuits and join me on this beginner’s course so you can Unleash your inner artist and put paint to canvas. Be creative and connect with your inner you and relax and enjoy with your new skill improving your wellbeing.

Course Outline:

• Understand the qualities of acrylic paints
• Materials and set up: Choosing and looking after your tools – brushes (four common shapes: flat, bright, filbert and round)
• Colour theory and mixing (cool tones, warm tones)
• Explore various types of acrylic painting techniques and the effects
• As the course goes through step by step, I will introduce each new technique slowly and in a logical progressive sequence.
• Brush handling, palette knife techniques and some medium. All these provide the foundation for all your future works
• Elements of Composition: Balance, contrast, emphasis, rhythm.
• Additional materials
• Discover your creativity
• Tips to be familiar with acrylic painting and paint successfully.
• How to transform a drawing into a completed painting
• An assessment of our own personal style and how to develop it more fully

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand acrylic paints. Integrate design and colour concepts to create paintings both representational and abstract.
• Recognise colour, tone and paint quality in the structure and mood of a painting
• Develop your creative potential and painting style – construct a painting
• You will have a really good solid foundation of how acrylics work and then you will be able to develop all the paintings you’ve ever dreamt about!
• You will enjoy and get fun creating your artwork! You will be happy and it will improve your wellbeing

What to bring:

• Bring your own material. After the enrolment your teacher will contact you by email with the Acrylics Painting Material List to bring for the first week
• Additional Information: Use closed-in shoes, wear old clothes or bring an apron, long hair must be tied back

Art Supplies Discount:

As a bonus for learning Art with SGSCC, all enrolled students are entitled to a generous 10% discount off the purchase of art supplies when they shop in-store at Eckersley’s Art & Craft, Taren Point!
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What students are saying:

I was a beginner with some experience So happy to have attended this class Gloria was always well prepared. Her manner was professional yet friendly. The theory as well as the practical advice was always spot on, well observed and very helpful. She guided us thru several techniques and I was able to finish the course with five paintings that were immensely enjoyable to work on and are all “keepers” and my friends liked! Teresa

About the tutor:

'I am a self-taught acrylic artist and experience educator. I focus on bringing happiness to people and provide an excellent experience. Painting allows a person’s mind to relax, when people create something beautiful through painting, they stimulate the creative mind. I enjoy teaching and sharing my knowledge. My collection has a bit of nature, abstract, calm, force. I teach fun painting classes and sell arts products. I have studied alcoholic ink and I also do kids creative workshops using Arts & Crafts. So, if you are looking for fun things to do and revel the artist you have inside, this painting class is perfect for you. Let’s create something beautiful together!' Gloria

Other Information:

• To ensure resources are ready for you at the start of your course, we ask you ideally enrol at least one week before the course commences.
• All courses need a minimum number of students to run ("we try our hardest to get those") . If your course does not have enough students it will be cancelled before the commencement and you will be informed.