Artistic Floral Watercolor: Connect with Nature

Begin the course by getting to know Inga Buividavice, your teacher for this course. She talks you through her creative career and how she went from working as a graphic designer to creating her own watercolor artwork, which she shares and sells online. Discover the influences that inspire her as an artist.

Dive into the materials needed for this course. Inga goes into detail about the brushes, watercolors, and other tools needed before demonstrating different watercolor techniques, from wet-in-wet to lifting. Explore the principles of color and how to create strong colorful compositions. Then use what you’ve learned so far to paint feathers using a limited palette of four colors.

Collect inspiration for your botanical composition and learn how to simplify complex floral shapes into sketches. Warm up for your finished piece by practicing brush pressure and other techniques. Then decide on the flower for your final composition before creating a series of thumbnail sketches. Choose your color palette, prepare your materials, and start work on the first layer of blooms and leaves. Build on your painting by adding darker leaves, berries, and texture to your flowers. Put the finishing touches to your watercolor illustration with splashes, gouache, and posca pen.

To finish the course, Inga shares her advice for overcoming creative blocks. Learn how to hold yourself accountable, analyze your work for future improvements, put in place healthy boundaries for your creative process, and more.