Unleash your expression with acrylic paint in this workshop. Designed to discover different painting techniques, colour-mixing, painting mediums and layering processes to boost your confidence in painting with acrylics.

Please bring with you:
Basic range of acrylic paints
Range of brushes, including large flat brushes at least 1 inch (household brushes are fine)
Small sponge
Rags for wiping brushes
A couple of large plates or trays to use as palettes and for mixing paint on.
Some grease proof paper.
Plastic/glass pots for water
Water spray bottle
Pastels (optional)

We have a Design shop at Rheged in case you are missing any materials.

Catherine MacDiarmid is an award-winning artist from Kendal and has exhibited widely. She featured in the recent New Light Art Prize hosted at Rheged, and regularly has work in the Mall Galleries, London. She was a semi-finalist in the Sky Portrait Artist of the Year 2019, and painted renowned journalist and news reporter John Snow, live on the Sky Arts channel in 2020. Catherine has 30 years experience teaching art courses and workshops.

10am-4pm, 70 pp
Max number of 14 people | Minimum age 16
Please note tickets are non-refundable. Exchanges to other classes by the same tutor may be offered more than 2 weeks before the start date (subject to availability).