Small Group Acrylic Painting Course

This personalised 12-week programme is perfect for children aged 8–14 who thrive with focused, individual support. Each week introduces a new artistic skill - from mark-making and colour mixing to still life, landscapes, and impressionistic techniques.

Working in a small group of up to four students, they’ll build confidence, grow their creative independence, and discover a genuine love for art. Each week they will complete a canvas painting inspired by a new technique, all within a warm, encouraging studio environment.

This carefully designed programme features some of our most popular Canvas Club artworks and gives students the confidence to tackle their own ideas with skill and imagination.

This course is led by professional artists

Course Breakdown Example (12 Weeks)

Week 1: Intro to Acrylics & Mark Making
We will cover: brush types, textures, expressive marks to create am abstract mark-making panel.

Week 2: Jellyfish Motion Painting
Expressive lines, flow, transparency, creating a Jellyfish painting in the ocean

Week 3: Garden of Colour
We will focus on colour mixing, warm/cool colours and tints/shades. To create an flower meadow painting.

Week 4: Lemon Still-Life
We will discuss light, shadow, composition and form to create a Lemon tree still-life painting.

Week 5: The Wave
Directional brushwork, layering blues, colour mixing and texture. Wave inspired by Hokusai.

Week 6: Starry Night
Foreground/midground/background, night colours. Van Gogh-style landscape.

Week 7: Monet Water Lilies
Glazing, mixing greens, soft blending. To create a focused study of Monet's Water lilies

Week 8: Sunset
Focussing on warm gradients, light, shadow and atmosphere to create a sunset scene.

Final Project (Weeks 9–11)

Students will design and create a full acrylic painting for their final project. With our guidance, they’ll choose inspiration for a larger artwork and develop it over the remaining weeks. Their final piece can focus on an animal, a still life, or a landscape - whatever excites them most.

Week 9: Planning & Composition
Thumbnail sketches, colour palette, layout.

Week 10: Underpainting & Blocking In
Tonal ground, large shapes, first colour layer.

Week 11: Developing Colour & Detail
Glazing, textures, highlights, finishing touches.

Week 12: Finishing

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Course starting Thursday 26th Feb - Buy Now

Thursdays 12:30 - 2:00pm

26th Feb - 2nd April

then 16th April - 21st may

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