Course "Floral Compositions with watercolor"

ONLINE COURSE

BY EKATERINA SAVA

Floral Compositions with Watercolor

Learn to lead a painting from tone to color and create 3 marvelous bouquets with Ekaterina Sava

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Flowers are one of the best subjects to paint with watercolor! This flowing, transparent, and unpredictable medium conveys their tenderness and vividness like nothing else.

At this course, you will see how to compose many flowers in exquisite bouquets. You will learn to show the center of interest, create striking contrasts of tone and color, combine wet and dry techniques, and show all the beauty and freshness of watercolor in your works.

Sign up for the course, make 3 marvelous bouquets in Ekaterina’s technique, and get all the needed skills for painting flowers with watercolor!

Ekaterina Sava,

a master of watercolor,

the author of the course

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Lesson 1

Introduction

Organizational information, how to use the platform. The list of materials needed for the course.

Lesson 2

Yellow Mood. Preparation

You will select colors for a future painting, learn to mix different shades and choose color combinations, and do a preparatory exercise.

Lesson 3

Yellow Mood.

Pencil part

You will make a pencil drawing for the future painting, getting rid of extra detailing and creating correct harmonious proportions and change the size and format of composition (from standard to a vertical panorama).

Lesson 4

Yellow Mood.

Watercolor part

You will learn how to work with large groups of flowers, analyze the variety of yellow shades in the light and shadow, control water and pigments, and convey the shape and volume of a glass jar.

Lesson 5

Bouquet of jasmine.

Preparation

You will select colors for a future painting, learn to mix different shades and choose color combinations, and do a preparatory exercise.

Lesson 6

Bouquet of jasmine.

Pencil part

You will make a pencil drawing for the future painting, getting rid of extra detailing and creating correct harmonious proportions, and change the size and format of composition (from standard to a vertical panorama).

Lesson 7

Bouquet of jasmine.

Watercolor part

You will learn more about the contrast of color and tone, work with white color, create lots of shades with a limited palette, practice a useful trick with paper tape and sea sponge, and see how to save the freshness of watercolors.

Lesson 8

Bouquet of lilac. Preparation

You will select colors for a future painting, learn to mix different shades and choose color combinations, and do a preparatory exercise.

Lesson 9

Bouquet of lilac.

Pencil part

Lesson 10

Bouquet of lilac.

Watercolor part

You will continue working on the contrast of color and tone, learn how to combine small lilac flowers into whole bunches, train to show white area without masking, see how to convey the abundance of flowers keeping the focus, and mix a lot of colors without dirt.

Lesson 11

Conclusion

Summing up, getting feedback, and doing a creative task using the techniques and knowledge acquired.

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“If you want to paint beautiful flowers, do not copy the photo, but compose the composition yourself. This way you will get much more interesting and harmonious color combinations.

I often build compositions in Photoshop – rotate something, zoom in, zoom out, expand.

You can combine several different photos – somewhere the shadow falls beautifully, somewhere the flower turned out well”.

In this lesson, you will:

learn to create a complex composition with only 1 or 2 flowers,
see how to choose reference photos for painting flowers,
get useful advice on how to change references from the Internet for avoiding copyright issues.

Ekaterina Sava

Author of the course

An aquarellist, a graphic artist, an architect Ekaterina Sava conducts online master classes all around the world;
Member of the American Watercolor Society (AWS) and the National Watercolor Society (NWS);

An active participant of various art exhibitions;
Over the past few years, her art works haves been recognized at dozens of major exhibitions and festivals in Europe, North and South America, Southeast Asia and the CIS;
The winner of IWS x Paul Rubens (China) 2018 Winner of the Chinese watercolor paper block cover competition.

Here you can find Ekaterina's works

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Certificate of completion (in Premium Plan)

Upon completion of the course for the students of Premium plan we issue a certificate. The certificate could be used as a proof of your qualification's upgrade at work (if it is related to arts) and for your private affairs as a recognition of your mastery in painting.

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Which materials do you need for the course?

Paints - any high-quality artistic paints in cuvettes or tubes (e.g. Daniel Smith, Sennelier, Winsor&Newton, Schmincke, White nights etc.)
Brushes: Natural round and synthetic brushes with a beveled tip, flutes
Watercolor Paper 100% cotton 300 gsm
A board and a tape to fix the paper
Pencil, eraser