Part Time Mexican Decorative Painting

Mexican Decorative Painting
Course Length: 1 Day
Site: West Durrington Campus
Attendance: Part Time
Course Code: DCL168

Day : Time : Start
Saturday 10:00-16:00 24-Jan-2009
ABC
17.00 (Fee per year)

A-Full fee,
B-Discounted fee for full payment at time of enrolment,
C-Concessionary fee for people in receipt of specified benefits

The Course
This one-day acrylics workshop will explore the vivid colours of traditional Mexican folk art and its decorative images of flowers, birds and fruit. Learn the basic brush strokes needed to paint motifs and designs that can be used on furniture, greetings cards and household objects.

Course Content
Mexican folk art painting - some of the motifs and images used, the basic brushmarks needed, colours used, how designs can be adapted to decorate items

What you will achieve
You will be able to form the basic brush strokes needed to create flower and leaf motifs, recognise some of the images used in Mexican folk art, use acrylic paint at an introductory level

Progression/Career Path
Painting for decoration and design (8 week Wednesday afternoon course - summer term) Painting and drawing classes to extend their skills

What you need to bring
Acrylic paints, brushes for acrylics - synthetic with point, sizes 8, 6 and 2 approx, plastic pots/trays for palette, a sheet of A1 black paper, a sheet of heavyweight white watercolour paper, a sheet or pad of tracing paper, sketchbook or sketchpad, pencil, notebook.

Other Costs
Set of paints - from 10, brushes approx 5, sheets of paper from 50p-2