Course Description

Be moved by the wild idea of flowers to paint a still life arrangement found only in your imagination. You’ll learn to find inspiration in images from various sources, build an arrangement on the canvas, paint a variety of vessels, and bravely mix paint in unexpected combinations.

I never paint flowers exactly as they appear in nature. Instead, I allow myself to be moved by their shapes and the ways they stand and bend. I find creative freedom when I paint these wild flowers.

Techniques Taught in this Course

-Brave color mixing
-How to pull your palette together for a project
-Inspiration-gathering
-Drawing and painting five main flower shapes
-Drawing and painting five main vessels
-Building an imaginative inventory
-Focus on being in your body through mark-making
-Arranging florals in two-dimension
-How to add contrast through primitive shadow and light