This playful painting course explores expressive figurative painting in acrylics from the life model, with both nude and clothed poses, incorporating narrative backgrounds and theatrical make-up to gain fabulously bold, colourful, abstract and expressive paintings on a large scale.
The focus will be on colour, abstraction and mixed media techniques. You will start by making a series of quick drawings and studies from the life model, who, throughout the course, will incorporate a theatricality to the poses to inspire your work. You will then move on to acrylic painting and explore abstract figurative paintings by looking at form, colour, texture and scale. The course will help you to explore making bold and colourful expressive paintings, experiment with mixed media techniques and work on a larger scale format.
You will broaden your knowledge of painting and increase your confidence in depicting the figure from both observation and abstraction. You will gain knowledge of different approaches and techniques to loosen up and improve your ability to work on a large scale.
Led by an inspirational tutor, you will be guided through demonstrations, exercises, discussion and one-to-one tuition, which will help you develop your painting and a playful attitude to making work.
A playful and practical approach to painting from the model is encouraged on this partly structured course, which covers:
- Ideas and inspiration for being more playful and freeing up your approach to painting
- Acrylic painting techniques/expressive mark-making
- Painting from a life model
- Line to colour and bold compositions
- Larger-scale painting
- Form, colour and abstraction
