Painting: Developing Your Practice

This course is designed to support the development of your painting practice through self-directed sessions, helping you build confidence in the use of materials, techniques, and creative decision-making. Each week, we will explore a specific theme or topic, accompanied by a practical painting assignment.

Every session will include a homework task that will be reviewed and incorporated into the following week's activities. You will also be encouraged to maintain a sketchbook diary to document your ideas, observations, experiments, and artistic progress throughout the course.

Students are required to have elements of a basic starter kit - Paint brushes, water-based paints (acrylic or gouache), sketch pad and pencils.

This course will be held at Stockport Art Gallery, Wellington Road South, Stockport SK3 8AB

This course is designed for people with some existing painting experience.

You will complete guided exercises in colour, composition, mark making, colour values, surfaces, grounds and mediums. You will explore technical aspects of painting in acrylics and/or gouache with a weekly project and home-study.

Tutor feedback
Group discussions

Creative Arts and Crafts
Ceramics
Floristry

There are no mandatory units

For further information please contact T: 0161 886 7070 or E: info@trafford.ac.uk

Although every care has been taken to ensure that the information contained within this document is accurate, there may be changes to this programme and provision. We will endeavour to keep prospective and current students updated where appropriate and when the information becomes available.