blue water lily – Paint Realistic Watercolour and BOTANICALS
BLUE WATER LILY – Paint Realistic Watercolour and Botanicals
Welcome to this month’s PATREON painting lesson exploring yet another wonderful painting subject together in this beautiful online botanical painting tutorial!
In this course, we’ll immerse ourselves in the delicate world of botanical illustration with a focus on the elegant blue water lily. This stunning floral study is not only a beautiful subject but also a fun and rewarding painting challenge. Whether you’re looking to refine your watercolour skills or explore a new botanical subject, this lesson is packed with valuable techniques and helpful tips to guide you through every stage of the process, improving your painting skills, confidence and work.
Course Highlights:
- Refining Watercolour Techniques: Learn to master wash quality and application, achieving smooth transitions and vibrant colours. Develop your skill in layering to build up complexity, depth and realism in your painting.
- Exploring Colour & Texture: Dive into the beautiful colour combinations that define the water lily’s delicate, textured petals, graceful stem and interesting leaf section. We’ll work through both simple and complex colour mixes, helping you to read and balance colour and tone as we go.
- Creating Realistic Detail: One of the key challenges in botanical painting is capturing those subtle, organic imperfections—like the delicate blemishes and markings found on the water lily. You’ll learn how to paint these details in a way that brings your work to life.
- Mastering Brush Control: Managing long, graceful stems can be tricky, but with the techniques we cover in this course, you’ll gain invaluable practice in brush control and precision, steadying your hand for the task and practice. This section is perfect for building your confidence with fine lines and fluid strokes.
What You’ll Learn:
- Botanical Illustration: Step-by-step guidance on how to approach and break down the blue water lily as a painting subject, capturing its beauty, complexity and grace.
- Watercolour Techniques: Learn to develop your watercolour washes in layers, improve your brushwork and fine line skills with practical exercises.
- Realistic Rendering: Achieve an improved, lifelike result in your painting, rendering the shifting textures and subtleties of our subject in watercolour, from the softness of the blue petals to the intricate textures you see in the features of this wonderful subject.
Why Join?
This course is perfect for nature lovers, art enthusiasts, or anyone eager to improve their painting skills. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned artist, or perhaps just looking for a truly sustaining new interest to explore, you’ll enjoy the creative journey of bringing this beautiful water lily to life. Let’s dive into this calming and inspiring painting challenge together!
Course Features:
- Step-by-Step Instructions: Follow along with detailed, easy-to-understand lessons that guide you from sketching to the final touches of your painting.
- Skill Development: With each lesson, you’ll gain confidence in both botanical illustration and watercolour techniques, improving your overall artistic practice.
- Creative Immersion: Lose yourself in the beauty of nature as you create a stunning, realistic botanical painting.
Join me and let’s explore the elegance of the water lily together, live on PATREON on the 8th!
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Check out these links for more information
See this painting in time lapse
Watch the course introduction clip
Did you know, the Hyacinth Macaw painting tutorial is just one of a range of bird painting, botanical illustration and natural history studies in my own realistic watercolour painting style on offer? Why not check out what else is available. Wed love to see you there!
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