Fluid Florals - Irises with Claire Wilson
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Saturday, June 7, 11:00am - 12:30pm PT
This is an online workshop held via Zoom.
Irises are one of my favourite flowers of the Summer season, Vincent Van Gogh famously painted several studies of their vibrant blue and violet hues. In Greek, Iris means rainbow, and it’s believed that the flowers ended up with the name due to the variation in colour of their blooms. Flowers have been a constant source of inspiration for my textile designs for many years and I just find it so therapeutic to try and capture their beauty with paint. There’s something magical about the fluidity and movement of pigments traveling through water that can represent the iridescence of petals.
In this session we’ll be studying Irises and observe their wide range of colour and depth. Exploring wet on wet, charging, and pulling techniques we’ll move pigments around to capture the magic of flowers.
Join Zoom 15 minutes early for an informal meet and greet with the instructor and class participants! Class will begin promptly at 5 minutes past the hour, so everyone has plenty of time to create!
SUGGESTED MATERIALS:
- Watercolour paints - some warms, cools, neutral like a grey, brown, or ochre, and maybe a neon if you have one!
- Mixing Palette Brushes - size 6/8 round and 1/2 for smaller details
- 2 x Cups of Water
- Paper Towel
- 2 x Sheets Watercolor paper - I’ll be using my fave 140lb Arches cold press watercolour blocks but any 140lb/300gms watercolour paper will work
- Spare sheet of paper to swatch colours
- *optional - washi or artists tape
- **watercolor pencil for sketching - i like to use a neutral like grey
- ***A titanium white, or white gouache
ABOUT INSTRUCTOR
Claire Wilson-Oghedo is a fine artist, creative educator, and textile designer living in Brooklyn, NY. Through her work she explores the beauty of the female form, interior spaces & fashion while considering the use of colour, shape and textures. Having spent her career creating fabric designs in the fashion industry, colour palettes are the foundation of her practice.
smudgestudiobk.com / @smudge_studiobk
THINGS TO KNOW
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