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Expressive Painting Short Course

Expressive Painting Short Course | On campus
Experience the power of expressive painting. This structured course uses visual exercises and themes to enhance your understanding of essential creative elements.

Next start months
August 2025
December 2025
March 2026
Tutor(s)
Ewa Gargulinska
Price
From £700.00

Course description

Course overview

Using painting as a medium, you will experience the limitless creative power of self-expression. This course is structured around visual exercises in response to a theme. They will accelerate your understanding of essential elements in the creative process. Imagination, intuition, freedom and spontaneity are essential in the development of visual expression.

Who this course is for

This course is suitable for anyone interested in developing expressive painting skills, regardless of prior experience. Beginners are welcome, as are those looking to expand existing knowledge.

Key information

Topics covered

  • Students will learn composition, texture and value of colour in abstract, figurative and surreal forms
  • Daily exercises are designed to release students' potential by establishing an independent vision
  • There will be a demonstration of techniques relating to surface, texture, depth and use of colour

Learning outcomes

  • Ability to recognise your creative strength
  • Ability to sustain concentration, trust your vision and express your imagination with confidence through technique, form, and colour
  • Ability to unlock and connect to the creative power of your mind
  • Digital badge and certificate of attendance

Materials

Please bring with you to the first session:

  • A flat large plastic or wooden palette
  • A heart-shaped palette knife
  • White acrylic gesso

Brushes (1.5"" to 2"" long):

  • Flat 3"" wide from hog bristle
  • Flat 2"" wide from hog bristle
  • Flat 2"" wide from nylon fan brush for glazing, approximately 1"" wide

Paints (acrylics by Winsor and Newton):

  • Brown Madder or Raw Umber
  • Alizarin Crimson
  • Indian Red
  • Lemon Yellow
  • Indigo or Prussian Blue
  • Cadmium Red
  • Sap Green
  • Viridian Green
  • Cerulean Blue
  • Ultramarine
  • Zinc White
  • Ivory Black
  • Matte Acrylic Medium

Tutor

Ewa Gargulinska

Ewa Gargulinska is an internationally recognised Polish artist and lecturer from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her private collectors include Arthur Sackler (founder of the new wings to the Royal Academy in London and Metropolitan Museum in New York), Jeremy Irons and Vernon Ellis, chairman of English National Opera. www.ewagargulinska.co.uk



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