What will I learn?
This 5-week Acrylic Painting for Improvers course is a follow-on course for learners who have completed an introductory acrylic painting course or have some basic painting experience. Build on your existing skills as you explore new techniques, develop confidence with colour and composition, and create more detailed and expressive artwork in a supportive and creative environment.

What will I need to take part?
Your tutor will be in contact with you and provide a list of resources you will need to progress through the course

What to expect
Apply a wider range of acrylic painting techniques, including layering, blending, and texture effects.
Use colour mixing and tonal values with greater confidence to create depth and atmosphere within a painting.
Plan and compose artwork using key design principles such as balance, focal points, and perspective.
Produce a completed acrylic painting that demonstrates improved technical skills and personal creativity.

Where can it lead to?
You can progress onto an advanced improvers course

Course eligibility and fees
This adult learning course is available to residents of Northamptonshire who are:

- aged 19 or over on 31st August in the funding year

- resident in England, outside a devolved adult skills funding area.

- ordinarily resident in the UK on the first day of learning.

If you don't meet the above requirements, including some international students or people not ordinarily resident in the UK, you will not be able attend this course.

Asylum seekers may be eligible to attend in some circumstances, including where they have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered, or where they receive certain types of local authority support.

Fees are payable on enrolment as published on the booking page.

If you are in receipt of certain benefits or in employment and earning below £25,750 a year, you may be eligible for reduced fees.

Under certain circumstances you may be asked to provide evidence of your identity, residency, prior qualifications and where relevant, benefits or income.

If you are not sure what support, you are eligible for please phone our office between 10-4 on weekdays 0300 303 1058 or email adultlearning@northnorthants.gov.uk.