Translucencies in Acrylic
20th & 21st May 2023
10am - 3pm

£160 (inc all materials and VAT)

Tutor -  Owen Normand

Course full! To join a waiting list, please contact: enquiries@paintboxartclasses.com

Owen Normand is an award winning still life and figure artist and was the winner of BP Portrait Award Young Artist Prize in 2013.  He studied at Leith School of Art and then went on to graduate from Edinburgh School of Art in 2008.   He spent several years living and working in Berlin while exhibiting around the world including London, New York and Edinburgh.  Owen has now returned to Scotland and as he was named as one of 15 emerging artists of great promise from around the world by Rebecca Wilson, Saatchi Art's Chief Curator.

Instagram - @owennormand 
www.owennormand.com 

This course will take a fun and informal look at painting in translucencies in acrylic. It will teach students practical and satisfying techniques of layering acrylic paint to produce intense, lustrous finishes that mimic those of traditional oil painting, without the drying times.

Day one will consist of talks, demonstrations and experimentation. Students will conduct several experiments to give them a hands on understanding of opaque vs translucent pigments, optical mixing of colours and how varnishing can reinvigorate a painting that has gone dull and flat as it has dried.

Day two will allow students a chance to apply some of the new knowledge by painting a still life set up and come away with a finished piece.

If you have ever struggled with acrylic paintings that have a chalky and dull finish and would like to unlock a lively new dimension of painting this course is for you.