Welcome to the watercolor flower class about how to paint the mysterious flower bouquet using wet-in-wet technique.

Watercolor is a loose and unpredictable medium, especially when painting wet-in-wet, but knowing some key points will allow you to have fun playing with watercolor and at the end of the class to have a beautiful painting. Wet-in-wet technique is a pure collaboration between the artist and the paper, where both parts are interacting by turns.

With warm up relaxing exercises and easy rules for sure you will enjoy painting with watercolor your favourite flowers.

Your class project will be to create a watercolor painting of the flower bouquet showed in the class or any other flowers which inspired you, applying wet-in-wet technique. For more inspiration check my flower folder on Pinterest More Flowers!

The process is really simple and fun. There are 3 steps:

Create a base in a wet-on-wet technique
Define the shapes and give volume by adding contrasts
Add small details to assemble all elements into a complete composition and final strokes to give the painting a personality

As well we will use a plastic card as a creative tool in order to create dynamic effects.

That's all! Of cause I will show and explain the each step. Be sure that you will manage with it.

By the end of the class you will have the skills necessary to create loose flower bouquet that you can sell, frame, use in your illustration portfolio, or gift to a loved one.

The class will be useful for intermediate students who are already acquainted with watercolor basics. However, I also encourage the beginners to take the class and get acquainted with this technique. For better results I do suggest to use 100% cotton watercolor paper, grain fin, do not take the satin texture it is not suitable for this technique.

Looking forward to see your beautiful paintings!!

Ready to start?

Share your progress and final result in the Project Gallery of this class to inspire your classmates and to get my feedback.

For this class I will use the following materials:

Watercolor Paints (I used Van Gogh, White Nights, Daniel Smith)
Watercolor Paper (for better results I do suggest to use 100% cotton watercolor paper, grain fin texture. I used Arches/Fabriano 100% cotton, cold pressed185/200gsm)
Sharp pencil 6-7B (for sketch composition)
Eraser
Mopper brush (goat hair) or kitchen sponge for making paper wet
Small size watercolor brush (squirrel hair) (I used Art Secret #1)
Medium size round watercolor brush with a good tip (I used Da Vinci Kolinsky Sable #6).
Small size brushes (I used Winsor&Newton Kolisky Sable #2, #1, #0)
Plastic card (for dynamic effect in the leaves)
Water dispenser (it is optional, but it is quite convenient to use for maintaining the paper wet)
Paper towels
Paint palette (or just a ceramic plate)
Waterpots

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