Expressive acrylic painting

Next date: Wednesday, 05 February 2025 | 12:15 PM to 03:15 PM

Join accomplished artist Kim Sotheren to refine your mastery of colour and composition as you find expression through this popular paint medium.

Kim provides creative learning experiences to find your own distinct painting style, working with each student to achieve their unique personal goals.

Kim will introduce you to techniques and colours that you may not have worked with before, for example, finding colours to make blacks that don't turn your rich colour into the muted shades.

You may choose to work with realism or expressively - a visual travel exploring values, shapes, movement, textural effects - all to be discussed within your compositional works.

Individual teaching covers mixed media, medium, colour mixing, composition, observation of form and depth and research.

Kim offers an introduction to one portrait painting class, graphic or realistic study. Students are encouraged to develop self-expressive works in a fun, relaxed atmosphere.

Level 2/3, Competent to Advanced

If you would like to book into term 1 & 2 together at a discounted rate, please contact us via email or phone.

Alternatively, if you would like to book an additional course in the same Term, please contact the Art Centre for a discount code to apply to your second course booking. Note that this discount code cannot be used in addition to the combined Term 1 & 2 discounted rate.

Materials required

Essentials:

Acrylic Paints - you do not need a lot of different coloured paints you only need five to start with so, please bring Matisse Structure master paints listed below:

• Primary Yellow

• Primary Blue

• Primary Red

• White (large) and Paynes grey (standard)

• Atelier Retarder Medium (100ml bottle).

*Master colours above only if you are a new student who has no acrylics. Otherwise bring the acrylics you have. (Collect some reference photos to use as guide for you to work from (not someone else’s painting). Three extra colours will be needed for the portrait class in approximately 3 weeks, the tutor will discuss this in the first class.

Applying the paint:

• Palette knives/or old credit cards

• Palette – disposable plastic plates (White)

• Water containers, a drop sheet, rags, apron or old shirt.

• A variety of shapes and sizes (flat and pointed) – acrylic Taklon Brushes. (Note: if you are using acrylic paint you must have acrylic brushes)

Painting Surfaces:

Paper – heavy 300gsm.
Canvas – can be ready made canvas or 300gsm print paper
An A3 or A4 visual diary is essential! (Sketches, ideas, notes and you may be required to bring references or props)
A graphite pencil, eraser, and willow charcoal