Master Botanical Art: Paint Realistic Watercolor Pansies Step-by-Step

If you love botanical art, this class will be a perfect way to advance your watercolor skills and learn some new ways of layering and mixing colors to achieve super vibrant realistic results. You will paint  3 colorful pansy [viola] flowers by following me along in real time. 

Together, we will practice:

• How to draw a perfect pansy outline with your pencil - even without a reference photo! 
• How to organize your watercolor palette to streamline your painting process and to help you make decisions about which pigments to use at every stage of your work. 
• How to create a truly realistic look by carefully planning and applying transparent layers of color.  
• How to use achieve different color schemes with a limited palette, by changing your base pigment and your supporting pigments. We will come up with a completely different colour combination for every flower by layering transparent pigments and using different palette structures.   
• How to combine wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry watercolor techniques to achieve natural color transitions  that are essential for successful botanical painting.  

MATERIALS

1. List of watercolor supplies, including alternative brands and pigment choices.

2. Colour palette "maps" for every flower.

3. Black and white outline of every pansy.

4. A variety of reference photos to get your creative juices flowing.

I look forward to seeing you in class! xo

 

• Introduction
• Painting Tools & Optional Supplies
• Pigments & Palette Structure
• Flower Outline - Tips & Technique
• Purple Pansy - Part 1
• Purple Pansy - Part 2
• Red Pansy - Part 1
• Red Pansy - Part 2
• Yellow Pansy - Part 1
• Yellow Pansy - Part 2
• Final Thoughts