If you’ve ever wanted to learn the layering depth and techniques of mixed media. Your tutor’s fun and comprehensive 8 sessions will help you bring your vision to the canvas in stunning fashion! Flower is easy to paint if you know the techniques and we are here to help you to create beautiful blooms paintings flowers. Get the knowledge to create lovely flowers on canvas and create a professional finished painting that are affordable to create, decorate and make ideal gifts!

We will be using methods that will give you great results even if you’ve got no artistic training before or if you are a seasoned or emerging artist. We will cover different techniques, use variety of shades (gradation) and shape/sizes, have a focal point off centre, blending, learn colour-mix with delicious pale rose, orange, marble/tile mixing colours. Just join me in this creative Bloom – flowers journey and spread the happiness and fun to get beautiful acrylic painting in Bloom flowers. Learn great techniques to take away!

Course Outline:

• Introduction: Important consideration to have in mind before starting your flower painting journey. Like lighting your workspace, characteristics of acrylic paints. Paint in detail and Paint in shapes. At the end use your own method
• Materials: Brushes, medium, canvas, (application of medium)
• Paint with alternative tools as brushes & train to handle pallet knife to get beautiful marks
• Colour mixing lessons and petal studies
• Combine painting and drawing on the canvas
• Mixing tones and impacts your ability to interpret and mix colour
• Mixing tones: create a board with various tones that will from the backbone of colour missing for flowers (cool and warm)
• Mixing colours: using limited palette
• Petal studies: individual and sketches to begin with a base layer before making slight colour modifications to gradually build realism
• Intro to painting Peonies, rose and blue flower
• Transferring the drawing
• Painting the Background – blending, shadow, light, learn impasto
• First Layer – centre / outer petals using soft blends to make brushstrokes invisible and add the realism
• Second Layer, which adjustments you like to make, and what do to if you make an unsuccessful adjustment – create volume
• Second layer – background and flower
• Finishing the flowers: calibrate to make it appear more lifelike. Important question to ask yourself – which adjustments to make
• Varnishing

Learning Outcomes:

• You will learn all about your materials, petal studies, canvas preparation, drawing transfer, medium and so much more!
• Solid foundation of how the mixing tones and colour mixing colours with reduce palette colours are so important as well the lighting and shadows
• Develop different types of painting flowers and be comfortable to develop your own painting method at the end
• This will give you a great toolkit of ideas and techniques to use in the future
• You will enjoy and get fun creating your artwork! You will be happy and it will improve your wellbeing

What to bring:

• Bring you own material
• Before class begins your tutor will contact you by email with the acrylics painting material list to bring for the first week.

Art Supplies Discount:

As a bonus for learning Art with SGSCC, all enrolled students are entitled to a generous 10% discount off the purchase of art supplies when they shop in-store at Eckersley’s Art & Craft, Taren Point!
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About the tutor:

'I am a self-taught acrylic artist and experience educator. I focus on bringing happiness to people and provide an excellent experience. Painting allows a person’s mind to relax, when people create something beautiful through painting, they stimulate the creative mind. I enjoy teaching and sharing my knowledge. My collection has a bit of nature, abstract, calm, force. I teach fun painting classes and sell arts products. I have studied alcoholic ink and I also do kids creative workshops using Arts & Crafts. So, if you are looking for fun things to do and revel the artist you have inside, this painting class is perfect for you. Let’s create something beautiful together!' Gloria

Other Information:

• To ensure resources are ready for you at the start of your course, we ask you ideally enrol at least one week before the course commences.
• All courses need a minimum number of students to run ("we try our hardest to get those") . If your course does not have enough students it will be cancelled before the commencement and you will be informed.