Start your 2025 painting practice with an abundance of flowers. We will create larger light filled paintings, honing in on value and relational color (colors that sit next to one another).
Prior to painting, we will examine blooms via dry medium or quick sketch paintings, rendering flowers quickly to get to their essence, examining value all on its own. Amy will demo in oil but all mediums are welcome in this beginning of the year workshop.
Sessions:
The singular closed form flower (a rose, for example). Understand the folding nature of this flower by drawing and then painting.
The larger bouquet using opened flower blossoms and two colors. Using a larger surface, let's emphasize form and volume and examine how flowers relate to one another.
The big, full bouquet! Using a larger surface, flowers will be in a state of closed and open forms and we will work with a variety of colors. Amy also reviews the concept of analogous colors in paint mixing.
Complements, neutrals, values, and temperature will be part of our exploration together.
This workshop has additional SECOND follow up painting session demos by Amy, all included in the regular price. Each session has an A section (2 hours) and a B session (1-2 hours) of follow up, non-instructional painting. These second sessions show Amy completing the demo she began during the live class.
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Amy completes two demonstrations. One with a single rose, very quick and loose. Second demo is the beginning stages of a larger, 16 x 16 painting with a bird's eye view of a white rose bouquet.
Amy conducts a 1.5 hour demo focusing on two color, open and closed form flower bouquet. The 16 x 16 painting is largely blocked in by the end of the demo.
Amy discusses the topic of analogous colors in painting and provides a simple demo of the topic using the workshop's limited palette. She then moves into a 1.5 hour demo using a full bouquet in front of a window, revealing pure clean light and strong shadows. A backlit composition.