Watercolor Hydrangea: Take Your Blending Skills to the Next Level

Master watercolor blending techniques by painting a spectacular purple hydrangea in a 1-hour class created by Katya Rozz. In this class you will learn and practice useful techniques such as smooth blending and natural rough petal textures, which will take your botanical paintings to the next level.

This class includes the following steps:

• Warm-up practice with smooth blending, watercolor textures and painting veins

• Dealing with mistakes

• Creating a detailed drawing of hydrangea flowering plant step-by-step

• Analyzing color choices for different parts of the flower

• Detailed and precise watercolor painting of accent hydrangea petals using a one-layer watercolor technique

• Creating overall volume of the plant by loose and atmospheric painting of purples masses of other petals

• Intro
• Tools
• Fantasy Flower Exercise: Smooth Blending
• Fantasy Flower Exercise: Textures
• Fantasy Flower Exercise: Veins
• Class Project
• Pencil Drawing & Tracing
• Detailed Painting of the First Accent Petal
• Detailed Painting of the Central Flower
• Detailed Painting of Other Accent Petals
• Painting of Top Accent Petals
• Painting of Bottom Accent Petals
• Painting All Remaining Petals
• Painting of Central Parts
• Final Thoughts