**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite. Our business hours are 10:00 AM through 5:00 PM. All course information and email correspondence will be sent during business hours. If students purchase a course, workshop, demo or recording outside business hours or during the weekend the course information or recording will be sent the following business day.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/VOLZCe855PU
The objective of this class is to empower you to paint floral compositions in an intuitive manner. Throughout the session, we will begin with abstract techniques, allowing spontaneous marks to guide the emergence of floral arrangements on your canvas. This process is not just a method—it’s a creative journey, a personal roadmap to discovering your unique artistic voice, unbound by the constraints of direct references or physical objects.
Week 1 - The Power of Imagination
As Albert Einstein once stated, “imagination is more important than knowledge.”
In our first week, we will engage in a series of exercises focused on mark making. We will also practice working with a limited palette, which encourages creativity and harmony in your artwork. The emphasis will be on generating multiple beginnings—creating a series of '“starts” that will serve as the foundation for the following week. Expect a fast-paced and energizing session.
Week 2 - Painting with Intuition
Reflecting on Claude Monet’s insight, “everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary, to love.” We will continue by revisiting the starts created in the previous class. This week, the focus will be on painting intuitively into those initial marks, allowing intuitive responses to shape the development of your florals.
Week 3 - Dreaming and Creating
Inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s words, “I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.” The final week will be dedicated to applying everything we have learned on a larger scale. This will be an opportunity to expand your practice, bringing together the skills and intuition developed throughout the course to create bold, expressive floral artworks.
Acrylic paint:
Cad. Yellow
Yellow Ochre
Cad. Red
Alizarin Crimson
Ultramarine Blue
Cerulean Blue
Transparent Red Oxide
Transparent Yellow Oxide
Black
Titanium White
*Please bring the paint colours you love to use as well. This list is your basic double primary; it works for any painting.
Acrylic Inks - bring a few colours (optional as you can use transparent paint, it’s your choice). I like the Inks as they are very transparent and they cover the canvas well.
Yellows, greens, blues…
Posca pens - my favourite colour is the slate grey but bring your own selection please.
Brush 1” flat and 1.5” flat (I love the angle brushes)
Catalyst wedge
Spray bottle with water in it
Palette
Water container to clean brushes
Several, small containers to mix paint in
Paper towel
140 lb. Watercolour Heavyweight Paper (30 sheet pad)
A support and painters’ tape to fasten your paper to 1 canvas 16” x 20”
White Chaulk and pencils.
NOTE: I use a special ‘sauce’ to dip my brush in, instead of water. It’s a mixture of 1/3 acrylic glazing liquid, 1/3 Matt. Medium, 1/3 distilled water mixed together in a bottle. If you don’t wish to purchase all of these products Matte Medium will work absolutely fine.
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite. Our business hours are 10:00 AM through 5:00 PM. All course information and email correspondence will be sent during business hours. If students purchase a course, workshop, demo or recording outside business hours or during the weekend the course information or recording will be sent the following business day.
DEMO: https://youtu.be/VOLZCe855PU
The objective of this class is to empower you to paint floral compositions in an intuitive manner. Throughout the session, we will begin with abstract techniques, allowing spontaneous marks to guide the emergence of floral arrangements on your canvas. This process is not just a method—it’s a creative journey, a personal roadmap to discovering your unique artistic voice, unbound by the constraints of direct references or physical objects.
Week 1 - The Power of Imagination
As Albert Einstein once stated, “imagination is more important than knowledge.”
In our first week, we will engage in a series of exercises focused on mark making. We will also practice working with a limited palette, which encourages creativity and harmony in your artwork. The emphasis will be on generating multiple beginnings—creating a series of '“starts” that will serve as the foundation for the following week. Expect a fast-paced and energizing session.
Week 2 - Painting with Intuition
Reflecting on Claude Monet’s insight, “everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary, to love.” We will continue by revisiting the starts created in the previous class. This week, the focus will be on painting intuitively into those initial marks, allowing intuitive responses to shape the development of your florals.
Week 3 - Dreaming and Creating
Inspired by Vincent van Gogh’s words, “I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.” The final week will be dedicated to applying everything we have learned on a larger scale. This will be an opportunity to expand your practice, bringing together the skills and intuition developed throughout the course to create bold, expressive floral artworks.
Acrylic paint:
Cad. Yellow
Yellow Ochre
Cad. Red
Alizarin Crimson
Ultramarine Blue
Cerulean Blue
Transparent Red Oxide
Transparent Yellow Oxide
Black
Titanium White
*Please bring the paint colours you love to use as well. This list is your basic double primary; it works for any painting.
Acrylic Inks - bring a few colours (optional as you can use transparent paint, it’s your choice). I like the Inks as they are very transparent and they cover the canvas well.
Yellows, greens, blues…
Posca pens - my favourite colour is the slate grey but bring your own selection please.
Brush 1” flat and 1.5” flat (I love the angle brushes)
Catalyst wedge
Spray bottle with water in it
Palette
Water container to clean brushes
Several, small containers to mix paint in
Paper towel
140 lb. Watercolour Heavyweight Paper (30 sheet pad)
A support and painters’ tape to fasten your paper to 1 canvas 16” x 20”
White Chaulk and pencils.
NOTE: I use a special ‘sauce’ to dip my brush in, instead of water. It’s a mixture of 1/3 acrylic glazing liquid, 1/3 Matt. Medium, 1/3 distilled water mixed together in a bottle. If you don’t wish to purchase all of these products Matte Medium will work absolutely fine.
