Fluid Florals - Monochromatic Studies with Claire Wilson
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Saturday, March 28, 11:00am - 12:30pm PT
This is an online workshop held via Zoom.
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 flowers and observing their wide range of texture and depth.
This month we’ll be setting ourselves a new challenge by capturing flowers using one single colour. We’ll be focusing on tone, form and layout to observe flowers without having to think about a palette, whilst building up depth with tonal details. 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:
These guidelines are here to help you gather supplies from home—feel free to use alternate options you love or have on hand!
- Watercolour paint - for this exercise I like to use a saturated colour like CFM Indigo, Plum, or Ruby
- Mixing Palette
- Brushes - large/medium round and a small/medium flat brush if you have one - these are great for painting ribbons
- Cup of Water
- Paper Towel
- Watercolor paper - I’ll be using my fave 140lb Arches cold press watercolor paper but any 140lb/300gms watercolor paper will work
- Spare sheet of paper to swatch colours/warm up exercise
- Pencil - I like to use 2H/3H Floral reference - fresh flowers are great if you have access to some, I’ll also be providing reference photos.
- *optional - washi or artists tape
- **Filbert Brush - my fave brush for painting flowers
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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If you are planning to teach in the future using anything you’ve learned from us, we kindly ask that you credit Case for Making + the individual instructor where applicable.
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