Are you finding painting with watercolors too overwhelming at times? Join Garima Srivastava, an artist and top teacher on Skillshare, for a relaxing watercolor class and paint vintage style flowers on colored backgrounds. This class is the first in a series of watercolor classes, where the focus lies on learning new watercolor techniques without the pressure of chasing perfection.

Garima’s gentle voice will help you learn the important concept of color layering as you paint beautiful flowers like Coneflower (Echinacea), Mimosa (Silver Wattle), and Salvia (Ornamental Sage) on colored backgrounds giving them a vintage touch in a stress-free learning experience.

Key lessons:

Art supplies: an overview of the art supplies used in the class
Color layering: an introduction to optical color mixing with transparent watercolor layers
Watercolor concepts and techniques to help beginners
Brushstroke practice: a closer look at the brushes Garima uses in the class
Painting coloured backgrounds in three different styles
Step by step 5-10 minute long lessons for 3 beautiful flowers with gold accents
Coneflower (Echinacea)
Mimosa (Silver Wattle)
Salvia (Ornamental Sage)

This class is meant for all skill levels. Beginners and experienced artists are both welcome.

The goal of this class is to get you to try a different painting technique for flowers, while giving you enough space and encouragement to experiment further on your own with different flowers and background colors. With this class you will learn important watercolor techniques that you can use beyond this class:

Wet on dry
Color layering/glazing
Adding eye-catching gold accents

By the end of this class you’ll not only have beautiful vintage style floral paintings, but also the confidence to further explore this technique with different flowers and colored background combinations.

Resources for this class include line drawings of the projects and inspiration photographs for the three projects.

As the project students are invited to paint along for one or more of the three flowers being shown in the class.

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