Fluid Florals - Sunflowers with Claire Wilson-Oghedo
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Saturday, August 1, 11:00am - 12:30pm PT
This is an online workshop held via Zoom.
Sunflowers have long inspired artists around the world for their radiant color, bold shapes, and symbolic meaning. Most famously, Vincent van Gogh elevated the sunflower into an icon of emotional depth and artistic freedom. His Sunflowers series, painted in the late 1880s, reflected his desire to bring joy through colour, and captured the radiance of one of nature's most beloved blooms. In this session we will cover some basic watercolor techniques including washes, layering, and blending and apply them to capture the lively textures and sunlit warmth of sunflowers. I’ll also provide composition tips for creating a balanced and eye-catching floral study.
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.
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 paints - some warms, cools, neutral like a grey, brown, or ochre, and maybe a neon if you have one! I’ll be using the CfM All the Feels custom blends palette as it's perfect for flowers.
- Mixing Palette
- Brushes - size 6/8 round and 1/2 for smaller details, I also love using filbert brushes for botanical studies.
- 2 x Cups of Water
- Paper Towel / studio cloth
- Watercolor paper - 9 x 12 Sheet Watercolor paper – I’ll be using my fave 140lb Arches cold press watercolour paper blocks but any 140lb/300gms watercolour paper will work (100% cotton preferred)
- Spare sheet of paper to swatch colours
- *optional - washi or artists tape
- **A titanium white, or white gouache
- Floral reference - fresh flowers are great if you have access to some, I’ll also be providing reference photos.
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
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