Watercolor Flower Bouquet
Mary P. Murphy
Class Preview
0:45
- In-depth Instruction; over 137 mins
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Introduction
3:20
Meet your instructor, Mary Murphy, and learn more about watercolor and some of the techniques covered in your class.
Watercolor Techniques
14:30
Watercolors interact in a variety of ways, depending on how you apply them. Murphy demonstrates how to practice the wet-in-wet, drybrush and blossoms techniques and become familiar with the watercolor medium.
Value: Scaling Lights & Darks
17:25
Learn how to scale the lights and darks in your work as you paint a monochromatic value study.
Color
27:44
Murphy takes you on a tour around the color wheel and shows how neutral, adjacent and complementary colors will work together in your painting.
Composition
16:18
Plan your painting by identifying the masses and shapes in your composition. Murphy helps broaden your awareness of how those masses fall within the painting, adding focus and movement, and drawing the viewer in.
Preparing to Paint
15:11
Murphy explains how to transfer a drawing to your watercolor paper and lay down a preliminary wash of color to define shadows and light.
Developing Your Painting
18:39
Your bouquet will begin to take shape as you build up layers of color with a wet-in-wet technique that creates the illusion of depth. Learn how to fix small mistakes and add background color.
Finishing Techniques
23:00
When is a painting truly finished? Murphy shares some strategies for looking at your work, fine-tuning it and modifying or fixing the parts you're not satisfied with.
Learn how to paint watercolor flowers with delicate petals, bold blossoms and dramatic light! Explore color theory with fun exercises in mixing hues to convey mood, and create a monochromatic study to hone your skills in depicting lifelike value and depth. Discover compositional strategies for a scene that engages your viewer, and begin painting with fluid transparent washes. Use wet-on-wet blending to build layers of jewel-toned petals, and apply the drybrush technique for detail and texture in your bouquet. Plus, learn surprisingly simple ways to correct any problems, and how to crop and frame your work for the best result.
Mary P. Murphy
Mary Murphy loved art from a young age, but her initial career path took her in a different direction, toward life as an award-winning speechwriter. After 20 years behind a pen, though, she picked a brush back up and the rest is history! She honed her skills training with artists such as Martha Deming and Jim McFarlane, president of the American Watercolor Society, setting up an in-home studio so she could paint nonstop. Her exuberant floral paintings began to accumulate local and national recognition and awards, and now she's thrilled to bring her passion to the Craftsy community.
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