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‘Beautiful Flowers’
- colourful, exciting & beautiful -
2nd - 3rd August, 2025 (2 days)
at my Buderim studio - Sunshine Coast
This flower painting workshop will be a fun and creative way to learn new skills and techniques. It’s all covered here, the beauty, structure, colours and composition of flowers, all under Don’s watchful eye and expert guidance. We explore many painting options like big, bold and brilliant colours, textural effects, hard and soft edges, even some more traditional techniques and so much more. Learn Don’s easy to use painting methods for great results faster. Whether you're just starting out or looking to refine your technique, this will be a workshop not to be missed. (All student levels welcome)
Day 1.. 'Learn, explore, practice, apply paint'
Let’s get started as we explore beautiful Flowers through painting, innovative thinking and better choices with reference. Sketch out our ideas and then transfer to canvas and paint your very own ‘Flower painting’ where you will apply all that you are learning and create your very own painting
Day 2.. Create a 2nd ‘Fantastic Flower’ painting
Begin your second Flower painting with a whole day to complete it. Apply and consolidate all your new learning as we also explore creative colour mixing, paint mediums and how to use, palette knife and brush techniques, all included and lots more...
You will learn:
- New ways to create better flower paintings
- Capture the brilliant colours of flowers
- What makes a great painting and how to achieve it.?
- How to prepare and get started.?
- Essential flower painting techniques explained and then applied
- How to interpret photo reference. What to use and what to leave out and why.?
- Apply your new creative processes for wonderful, visually exciting paintings
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Here is what you get:
- Creative fundamentals of easy flower painting explained (Step by step)
- Your class reference photo
- New creative processes for wonderful, visually exciting results
- Rendering flowers, colours, composition, textures and surfaces
- What makes a great flower painting & how to achieve it.?
- Easy and apply and learn methods as you practice flower painting
- Learn how to recognize, capture and paint essential aspects of your subject using my
simple and practical methods
- Heaps of one-on-one instruction. Class numbers are limited to 8
- Live, in-class painting demonstrations by myself to show you how it’s done
- Best practice use of materials & equipment
- Heaps of practical painting tips and tricks
- All this and much, much more...
* Conducted at my home/studio which offers great natural light for painting
* I supply morning & afternoon tea & coffee with delicious snacks & treats.. Yumm.!