Painting Florals in Oils

About

If you've always wanted to learn to paint beautiful, colourful flowers - this course is for you! Painting Florals in Oils is a hands-on painting course designed to help you simplify floral subjects and paint with greater confidence. Whether you're completely new to painting flowers or looking to strengthen your existing skills, you'll learn through practical exercises, demonstrations, and guided projects while creating a collection of floral studies and a finished painting. Course Dates (6 sessions × 1.5 hours), Saturdays 3:45pm - 5:15pm, 3 October - 7 November 🌟 What you will learn ➡️ How to simplify complex flowers into manageable shapes and forms ➡️ Using value to create depth, dimension, and realism ➡️ Colour mixing for flowers and foliage, including vibrant petals, subtle colour variations, and natural greens ➡️ Creating a sense of light, mood, and atmosphere in your paintings ➡️ Techniques for painting petals, leaves, stems, and other common botanical elements ➡️ Understanding flower structure and how to paint convincing blooms from observation ➡️ Building confidence in planning and completing a floral painting 🌟 Course Outcomes By the end of the course you will: ➡️ Have completed a collection of floral studies and a finished painting to take home ➡️ Understand the key building blocks of painting flowers, foliage and plants ➡️ Feel confident simplifying and planning a floral composition ➡️ Be able to create depth, dimension, and beautiful colour in your work ➡️ Have practical painting strategies you can continue using in your own creative practice 🌟 Inclusions ➡️ All painting materials provided throughout the course ➡️ Step-by-step demonstrations and personal attention ➡️ Practical exercises designed to build confidence and skills ➡️ A welcoming and supportive studio environment 🌟 Who is this course for? This course is perfect for: ➡️ Beginners looking for an introduction to floral painting ➡️ Artists wanting to improve their colour mixing, observational, and painting skills ➡️ Anyone who loves flowers and wants to learn to paint them! 🌟 Oil Painting Kit to Keep Take home oil painting kits include: ➡️ Basic selection of 6 Art Spectrum artist's oil paints ➡️ Three artist bristle brushes ➡️ Canvas panel ➡️ 1 x 100ml Linseed Oil ➡️ 1 x 100ml Odourless Solvent