7-day Watercolor Challenge: Paint and Explore Beautiful Spring Flowers
Offered By: Skillshare
Course Description
Overview
Paint and Explore 7 NEW Watercolor Spring Flowers!
Do you want to learn how to use your creative freedom to translate a spring flower into a watercolor painting? If yes, then this class is perfect for YOU!
I always associate spring with beautiful, delicate, and soft flowers. The colors are vibrant and full of life. Looking at these flowers really inspires me to paint. I hope to share this joy with you in this class. This is going to be daily challenge which means that we will paint one project per day or you may follow at your own pace. I will be sharing a lot of tips on how to simplify the process of painting these spring flowers.
In this class, we will learn the following topics:
- Materials
- Tips Before You Start
- How to Hold a Brush
- How to Prepare Your Palette
- How to Control Water in Your Brush
- Color Mixing
- Brush Stroke Drills
- Learn How to Use Different Parts of the Brush
- Sketching Flower Shapes
- Simplify the Shapes of the Flowers
- Floral Warm Up Exercise
- Learn to Paint Petals Strokes for Each Flower
- 7 Flowers
- Sweet Pea
- Lilac
- Magnolia
- Ranunculus
- Peony
- Tulip
- Iris
This class suitable for beginners and watercolor enthusiasts who want to learn how to paint watercolor flowers in a loose style. The skills that you will learn in this class can be applied to painting other flowers too.
By the end of the class, you will learn to paint 7 NEW flowers that you can add to your collection. Paint these flowers as a gift or digitize them and make prints for the season.
I'm excited for this class. So let's jump in!
MORE FLORAL CLASSES
- For more in-depth brush stroke drills, you may check out my other class "The Ultimate Guide to Loose Watercolor Roses"
- Try the popular class 15-day Watercolor Florals Challenge to develop your painting habit.
Happy Painting!
Joly
Syllabus
- What is this Class About?
- Class Projects Overview
- Materials
- Tips Before You Start
- Day 1: Sweet Pea Overview
- Day 1: Sweet Pea Final Project
- Day 2: Lilac Overview
- Day 2: Lilac Final Project
- Day 3: Magnolia Overview
- Day 3: Magnolia Final Project
- Day 4: Ranunculus Overview
- Day 4: Ranunculus Final Project
- Day 5: Peony Overview Part 1
- Day 5: Peony Overview Part 2
- Day 5: Peony Final Project
- Day 6: Tulip Overview
- Day 6: Tulip Final Project
- Day 7: Iris Overview
- Day 7: Iris Final Project
- Final Thoughts
- Bonus Video: Spring Florals Bouquet
Taught by
Joly Poa
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