We are smack in the middle of Winter, Nature is sleeping, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow and even Persephone is saying “five more minutes!”. The end result is that we are starving for colors, bright flowers and green luscious plants, so we are taking matters in our own hands and anticipate Spring by painting it!

In this 6 sessions, online Watercolor course, we will paint a variety of flowers, plants, vegetables, studying their structure, colors, beauty, creating a number of artworks that will grace the walls of our houses and possibly entice Spring to come visit us sooner this year.

Painting flowers and plants is also a great way of practicing the fundamentals of watercolor, increase the precision of our drawing and brushwork, proper dilution and concentration of the paint, study the structure of the specimen, blending colors, create gradations, practice composition and more.

Materials

• Paint: cadmium red medium, alizarine crimson, cadmium yellow lemon, cadmium yellow medium, earth red, (Indian red, Venetian red or burnt Sienna) yellow ochre, ultramarine blue, ultramarine violet, black, burnt umber, sepia, cobalt blue, cobalt violet, sap green, Hooker’s green, and any other colors you might already have
• Paper: a pad (12” by 16” or so of cold press paper.
• Brushes: #2 and #8 or 10, round. You can use synthetic or natural sables (Kolinsky or red sable), a flat, synthetic brush, about ¾ “will do.