Expressive Flower Painting Techniques w/ Acrylics & Collage

[UPDATE] New Demo Added 10/27/2018

Online acrylic course where you will learn the essential skills needed to paint lovely, expressive still life paintings with flowers. You will start from the very beginning as you discover the importance of positive and negative space drawings, then start to explore composition alternatives, explore color combinations and ultimately finish with a step-by-step flower masterpiece.

Who is this class for?

Intermediate and advanced acrylic artists that would like to paint expressive flowers. You should have a general idea of mixing basic colors, good drawing skills and be willing to work diligently to complete the lessons.

Course Breakdown

• Positive & Negative Space - this is essential in understanding the edges of your subject.

• Thumbnail Sketches - a great way to compose your painting without investing a lot of materials.

• Finalizing The Composition - this is a quick composition drawing based on previous thumbnails.

• Value Mass Study - an essential step in understanding how to simplify values and locate lightest light and darkest dark.

• Color Mock-up - an important stage that will bring drawing and color together.

• Explore Color - this is a great lesson for understanding how to shade and tint colors.

• Explore Subject - sometimes you just need to doodle and play with expressive techniques in order to push the boundaries a bit.

• Step-By-Step Demo - now it's time to put all the lessons together and create a final painting.

Materials

• 4 sheets drawing paper - 60lb. 9x12"

• graphite pencil, or a standard #2

• 4 sheets watercolor paper (140lb. cold press), or Bristol - 9x12"

• small canvas (11x14 inches), watercolor paper, or Bristol for final painting (12x16 inches)

• acrylic paints, ultramarine blue, titanium white, lemon yellow (or cad, Hansa yellow), deep red (Cadmium, pyrrole), alizarin crimson, burnt Sienna

• brushes, small round, medium round & large flat

Ready To get Started?

The hardest part is starting and you are already here. Sign up today and start learning the process of how to create expressive flowers with acrylics.