Naïve Doodles | Contemporary Florals In Gouache Or Watercolor

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Welcome to Naïve Doodles | Contemporary Gouache or Watercolour Florals!

I've ascribed this a 'suitable for all' category, as I do cover some gouache fundamentals with plenty of preliminary practise, but it's also suited to intermediate level students who can just choose to do the project part, or for seasoned artists who fancy trying something different to their usual style.

We're grabbing our brightest colours for this riot of naïve-style florals. I'll be taking you through materials, how to use watercolour instead of gouache, practise runs with our florals, before bringing all of our favourite flowers together in our class project.

This class is perfect for:

• those of you who need regular breaks. Because of the style of painting, we can leave at any point and come back to it when you're ready to add more motifs....... or you can come along with me for one whole painting session!

• the gathering of floral motifs for you to embrace as your own. (I often use the Michaelmas Daisy shapes and pinnate leaves in my work)

• those of you who want to transition from watercolour to gouache, as you can use either of these mediums to create your florals. Or you could use both! I filmed a little demo of me using watercolour, which you'll find after materials. 

We're also working with balance, using the placement of colour, size, shape and depth.

For example:

1. we'll be using a Pastel wash background, then layers of bright flowers. We'll also be using flat layers then as we go along we will begin to use thicker paint.
2. Another balancing component will be our use of complementary colours. Primary Blue, Yellow, Red with Secondary Orange, Violet & Green. Placing Complementary colours in a relaxed way, can heighten each colours' vibrancy and 'presence'

I aim to provide classes which are;

Informative

Relaxing

Fun

I hope I've been successful in that with this class :O)

Paper - Hanhnemuhle Harmony 21cm x 29.7cms - or any of your favourite watercolour paper

Gouache:

Cobalt Violet Hue (Shin Han)

Blue Green 068 (Shin Han)

Moss Green 044 (Shin Han)

White 162 (Shin Han)

Cobalt Teal Blue (Daniel Smith)

Opera Pink (Daniel Smith)

Ultramarine (DS)

Hansa Yellow Deep (DS)

Pyrrol Red (DS)

Titanium White (DS)

Primary Yellow (Winsor & Newton)

Bengal Rose (Winsor & Newton)

Brushes:

0 Mop Brush (Jackson's) or any soft brush suitable for laying down a wash.

Size 5 round brush (Memory Point)

Size 2 filbert (Mastertouch)

Size 8 filbert (Royal & Langnickel)

Pens:

01 Pigma Micron (sepia)

Signo white gel pen

Bic pens in turquoise & Pink

Tombow Port Red 757

Tombow Dark Ochre 027

Mechanical Pencil (Faber Castell)

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