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Floral Painting in Oils with Leanne Pearson
7 students
Floral Painting in Oils with Leanne Pearson
Learn to paint vibrant, expressive floral still lifes using oil paints
Created byLeanne Pearson
Last updated 7/2025
English
What you'll learn
- How to paint flowers from life, capturing their essence and vitality.
- Techniques for composing and designing your own unique floral setups.
- Methods to express simple tonal shifts, creating the illusion of light and dark in floral shapes.
- The importance of accurately perceiving and rendering shapes.
- Drawing with simple shapes first to utilise the canvas effectively.
- Creating interesting negative and positive shapes within your composition.
- Flexibility in creating on the canvas, moving beyond mere replication of your setup.
- Understanding what elements to focus on and where to maintain looseness.
- Utilising both sunlight and studio lighting to enhance your work.
- Making impactful impressions with your marks and being sensitive with edges.
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Course content
2 sections • 9 lectures • 1h 24m total length
Requirements
- No prior floral painting experience is necessary — this course is suitable for beginners and intermediate artists.
- Basic familiarity with handling a paintbrush and setting up a palette is helpful but not essential.
Description
Discover the beauty of painting flowers from life in this vibrant, hands-on course with award-winning Australian artist Leanne Pearson. Whether you're a beginner or an intermediate painter, this course will guide you through the foundations of expressive floral painting using oils.
Leanne’s warm, down-to-earth teaching style makes complex concepts easy to understand. You’ll learn how to set up your own floral still life, draw out shapes directly onto the canvas, and approach your composition with freedom and confidence. With a focus on observing tonal shifts and simplifying forms, you’ll develop the ability to capture the freshness and energy of flowers without getting lost in the detail.
Throughout the course, you’ll work through two full floral demonstrations — including Leanne’s popular “Funky Flowers” series — and discover how to use colour, light, and shape to create expressive, impactful paintings. Leanne will show you how to develop a strong composition, find interesting negative space, and paint more intuitively.
You’ll also learn how to use props and lighting to elevate your floral setups and understand what areas of the painting should be tight and descriptive, and where to let loose. Most importantly, you’ll gain confidence to trust your brush and make bold decisions on the canvas.
By the end of the course, you’ll have completed two floral paintings and developed a toolkit of techniques that you can apply to future works. This is floral painting for those who want to loosen up, express themselves, and truly enjoy the process.
Who this course is for:
- Beginner and intermediate artists eager to explore floral painting in oils.
- Individuals interested in learning to paint flowers from life with expressive techniques.
- Artists aiming to understand composition, light, and colour in floral still lifes.
- Those seeking to develop a more flexible and intuitive painting approach.