Minimalistic Botany: Master Watercolor Mixed Washes Painting a Strelitzia Flower (bird of paradise)

Minimalistic Botany in Watercolor
Painting flowers in watercolor never gets boring because of their vibrancy, tenderness, and uniqueness. Creating floral paintings in a minimalistic style gives you space to focus on a flower and not get distracted by the background. Your flower is at the center of attention!
This is a series of floral courses where we will focus on 1 or 2 primary watercolor technique and master it to the point you feel like a pro!
We kick off with an exotic strelitzia!
YOU WILL DISCOVER
Wet-on-dry watercolor techniqueAnd paint the whole flower using this one technique!
Mixed washDo not miss out on special exercises to practice creating stunning mixed washes!
Negative spaceYou will briefly use the negative space technique to create petal outlines.
Alla prima techniqueAt the end of the course, you will realist you painted a whole artwork just in one attempt without coming back to the same layer. This means you used all prima!
MinimalismFinally, you will create a piece where a single flower is at the center of attention. Your painting will look amazing in a minimalistic interior.
INSIDE THIS COURSE
- Review of art materials you need to paint strelitzia
- Discussing your color palette & selecting the best color combinations for your flower
- Practicing mixed washes with specially tailored exercises for this course.
- Sketching a flower on your own or downloading an outline of strelitzia.
- Looking into the anatomy of strelitzia & learning about every part of it
- Painting an exotic flower step by step
Our minimalistic flowers will be eye-catching, simple, quick, and in the best watercolor traditions. They also look stylish on the wall!