Hi everyone! I'm Nia and I'll be your teacher for this Honeybee class! I've decided to paint this subject matter in a very detailed way that depicts a scientific illustration style with my own interpretation of course.

Since this is a small and detailed painting, I would say that this requires good brush control, this means understanding paint consistency and brush load will be very important as we are going to be painting on small areas, and creating small details.

So personally I’d recommend this class for intermediate students, but if you’re new and you’d like to give this a go, I’d still welcome you to join. Just make sure to paint at your own pace, you can even draw the outline a bit larger, so it’s easier to control the flow of paint on your brush.

***Here's a link of a skillshare class that I made on brush control techniques and exercises if you'd like to use it as warm up to this class

https://www.skillshare.com/en/classes/Watercolor-Brush-Control-Exercises-for-Beginners/477683588

Like in my usual classes I will include the references that I used including the traceable outline, and because this painting has a lot of overlapping I will have 3 outlines available for the layers.

In my edit I will be cutting off parts of the footage when my hand is either inactive or off the camera though, often times that’s when I’m either cleaning my brush or thinking and trying to make a decision in my head.

This means that I’ll be painting faster than normal but I just find that doing this makes the class more efficient and in a way more comprehensive as it’s more visually continuous.

If you guys are new to my classes, I’d recommend for you to either watch the full class first so you understand the flow of each lesson. Or you can also watch each lesson before painting along, so you know what’s to come in the next steps for your painting. When you paint along, you can then pause in between each step, so you can paint at your own pace without feeling rushed.

If this is something that you guys would be interested in painting, please join me in this class and let's paint!

Nathianne De Moura de Andrade

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