If you want to achieve dreamy, atmospheric and soft looks in your watercolor paintings, specifically white floral artworks, then you found the right class.

Creating dreamy, atmospheric and soft floral paintings has always been my goal when I started with watercolors. It wasn’t easy at first but after gaining enough experience, experimenting with watercolor techniques and practicing with a growth mindset, I finally learned key skills that I need to produce this style.

In this class, I’ll share techniques that you need to learn and practice to create soft floral paintings. We’ll utilize negative painting combined with other watercolor techniques to create these dreamy and atmospheric floral compositions featuring white flowers.

By taking this class, you will be able to:

paint white flowers with watercolors without using white paint through the negative painting technique;
use high contrast to make the flower shapes pop out and be the center of interest;
achieve soft, atmospheric and dreamy backgrounds using wet-on-wet watercolor technique;
learn the importance of timing to create blurry but still distinguishable shapes in the background;
soften edges by observing the wetness of the paper and load of the brush to avoid blooms or cauliflower effect;
correct mistakes by lifting or erasing already dried watercolor paint; and
create beautiful watercolor floral paintings / botanical illustrations that can be gifted to others or hang on your wall.

A downloadable PDF guide is available in the Resources tab where you'll find scanned copies of watercolor exercises demonstrated in this class, watercolor materials you need to prepare, color palette for each botanical illustration project, finished watercolor flower paintings, reference photos and ideas for future projects.

The three watercolor techniques that we’ll be focusing on this class are:

Wet-on-wet. This technique will be used in all our watercolor floral backgrounds. I will share with you how to achieve smooth and soft blending and how to correct mistakes in case you accidentally color in the floral shapes with the background colors.
Damp-on-damp. We’ll differentiate this watercolor technique with wet-on-wet and produce blurry but still distinguishable shapes perfect for our background. The importance of timing and observing the wetness of the paper will also be discussed to avoid unwanted blooms, back runs or cauliflower effect in our botanical illustration.
Soft Edges. Just like the damp-on-damp watercolor technique, the wetness of the paper and the load of the brush play an important role in creating soft edges. Unlike the two aforementioned watercolor techniques, we’ll be softening edges on dry paper. This method is perfect for a balanced composition in your watercolor floral paintings.

This class welcomes watercolorists with enough experience to handle the abovementioned watercolor techniques. Beginners are also encouraged to join and challenge themselves by leveling up their skills and painting these botanical illustrations. Wherever you are in your watercolor journey, let me share with you how I create these dreamy white floral pieces.

I’m looking forward to paint with you so grab your materials and together, let’s make this world a little bit more colorful with our artworks.

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Aditi Agrawal

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