You love houseplants, I love houseplants, we all love houseplants! Join me in immortalizing your favorite plant with ink and watercolor!

This class is a fun introduction to loose ink and watercolor technique and learning to make your own stylistic choices.

Great for everyone who goes crazy for green things and loves experimenting with new styles, this class is suitable for all skill levels! The techniques used are easy and I will go through them step-by-step.

By the end of the class in addition to having a pretty picture of your favorite plant, you’ll walk away with a deeper knowledge on how to translate the things you see into appealing images that communicate your personal vision. The loose ink and watercolor technique can easily be adapted to other subjects, providing a new creative tool for your arsenal. And you’ll have a wonderful mindful time of appreciating your favorite plants!

Back as an art student I remember agonizing over finding ways to stylize plants that would feel right to me. I loved looking at beautiful illustrations of plants, but I just somehow didn’t get how I could do that for myself.

In the class I’ll go over:

How to make stylistic choices
Building an appealing, stylized image from the essential elements
The guidelines I use for creating stylized pictures of plants
My approach to inking an image
Using loose watercolor washes to add color and life

I’ll talk about why my guidelines work for me and encourage you to try them out for yourself. You can add and modify them as you see fit for your own use. I’ll show you the process from idea to execution, and give you tips to make your journey easier. The aim is to help you experiment with your own way of stylizing plantlife, learn a fun loose technique with ink and watercolor and give you the tools to develop your own personal voice!

Please share your finished work here on skillshare and on instagram with #jaanaheiska_skillshare, I’d love to take a look!

Jaana Heiska

Illustrator

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