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Watercolor Flowers - Negative Painting Technique
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Watercolor Flowers - Negative Painting Technique

How To Paint Dreamy Watercolor Florals Using Limited Color Palette
Created byJana Raninis
Last updated 1/2022
English
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What you'll learn

  • How to paint lovely watercolor flowers
  • How to choose harmonic color palette for your painting
  • How to use negative space in watercolor painting
  • What materials and art supplies to use

Course content

1 section • 7 lectures • 37m total length

  • Introduction1:13

    Paint dreamy watercolor florals using the negative painting technique for a translucent finish. Follow Jenna's process to create modern florals you can turn into greeting cards.

  • Materials2:57

    Choose 100 percent cotton watercolor paper like arches for smooth washes and pigment control, and gather brushes, masking tape, paper towels, a water jar, a sketching pad, and a pencil.

  • Color Palette3:14

    Choose a harmonious watercolor palette using a color wheel to balance analogous blues and purples, with complementary accents for subtle contrast. Test swatches to preview color combos.

  • Floral Shapes3:21

    Explore negative painting technique by sketching simple four-petal flowers with diamond shapes and rounded tips, plus easy leaves for contrast.

  • Negative Painting Technique3:16

    Master negative painting by filling around shapes with negative space, while understanding positive space around objects, in watercolor, and keep the paper dry for sharp edges.

  • Class Project - Paint the Flowers23:25

    Create a watercolor featuring three flowers using negative painting, layering wet washes around petals and leaves, with masking tape edges, then finish with center dots and light splatter.

  • Final Thoughts0:31

    Enjoy the instructor’s final thoughts that celebrate art, fun, and relaxation. Share your projects for inspiration, provide feedback, and explore other Skillshare classes.

Requirements

  • There are no special requirements for taking this course.

Description

This class features two popular watercolor topics: watercolor florals and negative painting technique.

Watercolor floral design is very popular these days - you can find a lot of these motives on posters, fabric, homeware... I believe people like them because of their dreamy and fresh look.

In this class we are going to learn how to paint watercolor florals, but not just any florals - we are going to use negative painting technique to do it. This painting technique is very important especially in watercolor. To achieve the dreamy look of our painting, we are going to talk a little bit about the color theory and color wheel - which is good tool to understand how the colors work together.

As a class project, we will create lovely, harmonious floral painting which looks very nice framed and displayed, or works very well also as a greeting card.

This class is suitable for beginner and intermediate level.

As for the materials, in this course we use watercolors, watercolor paper (ideally 100% cotton paper), brushes (various sizes), jar of water, paper napkin, piece of hardboard and masking tape.

The Class Project will help you understand negative painting technique and natural color blending on the paper. We will paint simple watercolor flowers surrounded by lovely pointy leaves. Even if you are a beginner, the shapes of petals and leaves are easy, so don't worry, you can do it!

This kind of painting takes time, feel free to take breaks (actually you need to as you wait till your layers of paint dry :) ).

Who this course is for:

  • This course is suitable for beginners and intermediate level

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