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Start the class playing, and you will be able to access them on the right underneath the video. Subtitles are available in English, Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese too! Start the class playing, and you will be able to access them on the right underneath the video
There is also access to a transcript as the class is playing, which can be found here:

Welcome to "Eliana"!

We're painting pretty florals with an upwards direction in this ode to wild & garden flowers. Follow along with me step-by-step, or create your own favourite flowers.

I often paint flowers and decide afterwards which flower they may be! Allow yourself the same freedom as we explore a colour palette of Pastel Pink, Lilac and, what Crayola call, 'Jazzberry Jam'. With lush warm greens on a bed of buttery yellow.

We'll be using round brushes and a small filbert to create c-curve petals, and clustered, compound flowers. After I finished the painting, I realised that the tall flowers looked a bit like Viper's Bugloss, a wildflower which grows abundantly along the road waysides near where I live.

Echiums are more French Ultramarine than deep Magenta... but I think we can be allowed our own interpretations! lol The Lilac flowers, I imagined to be Michaelmas Daisies? and the White a Opera Pink ones, small Polyantha Roses?

What We Will Be Covering in Class

Creating a background of Buttery Yellow in gouache or watercolour.
Mixing colours adjacent to each other on the colour wheel.
C-curve petals shapes for our small roses
Side sweep and downward brush strokes for our leaves and tall flowers.

Who is This Class For?

Confident beginners to Intermediate levels
Those of you wanting to become more practised at balancing out motifs to form a cohesive project.
Those of you with society6, Printful, Redbubble etc accounts, and want to create a painting which lends itself to providing good coverage on products.
Those wanting to learn basic colour theory, in the form of analogous hues in the motifs, and a complementary effect achieved with the use of yellow for the background.
As always, for those of you who want to nurture self-care routines, and relax.

As always my aim with all of my classes is to provide content which is:

Informative
Fun
Relaxing

Arches Hot Pressed: 20cm x 20cm block

Brushes:

Larger brush for putting down a wash

Size 10 round brush (I used a Escoda)

Size 0 and 2 Filbert (I used brushes from an inexpensive set. I couldn't source the ones I have, but this is very close: Filbert Brush set

Size 5 round brush (I used Memory Point)

A liner brush (I used a Billie Showell)

Paints: you could use watercolour, gouache or a mix of both :O)

Titanium White (I used gouache)

Hansa Yellow Deep (gouache)

Undersea Green (Watercolour)

Quinacridone Lilac (Watercolour)

Ultramarine (gouache)

Hansa Yellow Light (gouache)

Lamp Black (Gouache)

Materials for "Primavera" Bonus Class:

Clay Modelling Tools Here
Liner brush
Deerfoot stippler
Makeup stippler brush & Flat wedge Here
1/2 inch Flat brush

Paints: I used all watercolour, as I didn't have my gouache paints handy. If you have gouache, it would be preferable, as watercolours when used thickly, and not mixed with, say, a white gouache, are slightly shiny.

Undersea Green (watercolour)
French Ultramarine (watercolour)
White (watercolour)
Hansa Yellow Light (watercolour)
Perylene Red

For my disabled/Chronically ill followers: I do try to create classes which have a relaxed fun feel about them, where we can experiment together. Some of you will find smaller work easier, the same is true for larger-hand-off-the-table brush strokes... and some will have difficulty with both of these.

I wanted to bring your attention to contraption I discovered recently, after canvassing disability manufacturers and getting a 'I'm sorry, the contraption you're describing doesn't exist', I came across an advert on Instagram for a desk device which helps support your arm and can be moved in multiple directions.

I am really excited to find this, and have been trying it out, and I personally have found it helpful in supporting my right arm (the right side of my body being weaker than my left, In practically every way, even my right eye is weaker and has a different prescription to my left) Here is the link: Ergonomic Armrest Support

Another aid I've just found is grip toggles. I've not used one of these yet, but they may come in handy for those of you, (to mention just a few conditions) with Arthritis, ED, FND, Fibromyalgia, MS, ME or injury. Here is the one I've sourced which can be used time and again (There is one on the market which is a single use (?) sticky toggle to help with pulling drawers and plugs out of sockets etc) but this one seems better for holding pens/paint brushes: Grip Toggle

I am very focused and interested in trying to make my classes as accessible as possible, so if you have any feedback, I'd be very grateful to hear it. For example, I heard back from followers with limited movement that leaf printing was more accessible than painting, and that the smaller ditsies are easier for muscle weakness, as it's possible to rest the arm fully on the desk and the range of movement is small. Do you have anything to add?

So, when you're ready, let's move on with the class!

Tracie Walters

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