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Paint a POPPY trio in a VERY WET style & one more PRECISELY.
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Paint a POPPY trio in a VERY WET style & one more PRECISELY.

Two different styles for this popular flower. Use a bright red/big brush. Then be more Botanical with a smaller brush.
Created byNicola A Blakemore
Last updated 3/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • How to paint in a VERY wet style.
  • Learn to relax and let the colours run and the picture paint itself.
  • Learn to use strong colours.
  • Become confident using a large brush.

Course content

2 sections • 8 lectures • 1h 35m total length

  • How to find your way around the Udemy platform.4:06

    Please watch this video and see how this platform works.

    It could save you a lot of time and frustration.

  • Single Poppy - a slightly controlled and precise style.30:26

    Here is one large poppy to paint to get you started. It will ease you into getting to play with more water AND getting you colours to vary from light to dark.

    Take your time, relax and try not to control the outcome too much.

  • Learning how to use more water -surface tension8:51

    This is a valuable, all round exercise for painting with wtaercolours. It will also lead you onto painting the next trio of poppies where you use much more water.

    Do this as many times as you like to feel comfortable with the process.

Requirements

  • A knowledge of how to use watercolour paints.
  • Students must have at least a 300 gm (140 lb) watercolour paper.
  • A large (No 10 or there about) brush.
  • Sufficiently confident to try something new.

Description

NEW BONUS LECTURE - added August 2023

Improve your painting confidence by painting these poppies and learn how:


  • to use more water and let the paints flow.

  • use stronger colours and more pigment.

  • make meaningful marks with your brushes.

  • create specific shapes from the accidental marks that occur.

There is so much fun to have painting these pictures. Your painting confidence with really soar when you grasp the basics of NOT colouring between the lines. There is no need to use a pencil first. Let the paint and the water make the marks for you. Use your imagination and let the images create themselves.

I have used a mixture of colours. Scarlet lake, Alizarin and vermillion for the main reds. But use what reds and oranges you have. Maybe you have poppies growing near you which have more orange and yellow in them, so I will leave it up to you.

Most of all discover the magic of watercolours when the are used in this really fluid way.


Follow me as I demonstrate how to work in stages and also how to correct mistakes. It happens to the best of us ! 

  • Why choose one of my courses?

    Because, as a self-taught artist I understand how a lot of people feel about their creative work, sometimes anxious, sometimes overwhelmed and often that it's not 'good enough. I will hold your hand as you overcome these fears as I offer a friendly, relaxed and sensitive teaching style.

    I also have years of experience teaching people of all levels both in-person and via the internet.

    Do one of my courses and you will feel as if I am in the room with you every step of the way.

Keep safe and keep painting, love Nicola

Who this course is for:

  • For those who wish to paint in a more WET and loose style.
  • Anyone who wants to build their painting confidence.
  • Those who wish to take their painting to a higher level.
  • For thos who have mastered the basic skills.

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