Welcome to this month’s painting lesson, exploring yet another wonderful subject together.

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 delicate 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.

BLUE WATER LILY goes live on the 8th so get ready, get steady, its almost time 💙 Ill see you there!