Mastering Florals (Online Workshop) Spring 2025 w/ Yelena Lamm
April 3 to April 17 (Thursdays), 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO:
Workshop Description
Flowers, as artistic subjects, offer an infinite variety in form and color, carrying deep symbolic meanings, evoking a wide range of emotions, fostering a connection to nature, and allowing for artistic freedom in terms of interpretation and style.
This immersive and vibrant workshop focuses on painting flowers both from photo references and live setup. Yelena will guide you through the essential techniques of alla prima oil painting, helping you master your approach to composition, color harmonies and values. You will work with a limited primary palette and have an option of expanding this palette to boost your skills creating rich, cohesive artworks, explore your creativity, and enhance your artistic abilities.
Workshop Outline
Each of the weekly lessons will include a live streamed painting demonstration.
Week 1: painting techniques, brushstrokes, and color mixing.
Week 2: shapes and values, understanding underlying structure of different flowers.
Week 3: color harmonies, color temperature, painting a bouquet.
Workshop Materials List
Surfaces:
Minimum 3 stretched canvases, canvas boards or panels, recommended size between 8˝x10˝ and 12˝x16˝. I use Centurion Deluxe Professional Oil Primed Linen Canvas
Panels. Small (5˝x7˝ or so) surfaces for the exercises and color thumbnails (can be scrap canvas pieces, oil paper, primed watercolor paper or board).
Brushes:
I use Rosemary and Co. brushes. My favorite are Evergreen Short Flat sizes 4-10; Eclipse Fan (1.5-2”, optional).
Palette:
Minimum 12˝x16˝ in size; glass or wood, disposable paper palette acceptable.
Medium:
I highly recommend Michael Harding Miracle Medium MM0 (replaces Gamsol) and MM1
(replaces linseed oil), if not, Gamsol and linseed oil.
Oil paints:
I came up with a limited palette which is fun to work with and allows for mixing a full range of bright chromatic colors. It includes:
Quinacridone Rose
Phthalo Turquoise
Cadmium Yellow Lemon
Transparent Oxide Red
Cobalt Blue
Titanium White
Additional optional colors:
Chinese Orange (Sennelier)
Green Gold (MH)
Radiant Green (Gamblin)
Amethyst (MH) – or any nice purple or violet
Other items: containers for medium, paper towels or rags, easel or pochade box, gloves, brush cleaning soap.
April 3 to April 17 (Thursdays), 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO:
Workshop Description
Flowers, as artistic subjects, offer an infinite variety in form and color, carrying deep symbolic meanings, evoking a wide range of emotions, fostering a connection to nature, and allowing for artistic freedom in terms of interpretation and style.
This immersive and vibrant workshop focuses on painting flowers both from photo references and live setup. Yelena will guide you through the essential techniques of alla prima oil painting, helping you master your approach to composition, color harmonies and values. You will work with a limited primary palette and have an option of expanding this palette to boost your skills creating rich, cohesive artworks, explore your creativity, and enhance your artistic abilities.
Workshop Outline
Each of the weekly lessons will include a live streamed painting demonstration.
Week 1: painting techniques, brushstrokes, and color mixing.
Week 2: shapes and values, understanding underlying structure of different flowers.
Week 3: color harmonies, color temperature, painting a bouquet.
Workshop Materials List
Surfaces:
Minimum 3 stretched canvases, canvas boards or panels, recommended size between 8˝x10˝ and 12˝x16˝. I use Centurion Deluxe Professional Oil Primed Linen Canvas
Panels. Small (5˝x7˝ or so) surfaces for the exercises and color thumbnails (can be scrap canvas pieces, oil paper, primed watercolor paper or board).
Brushes:
I use Rosemary and Co. brushes. My favorite are Evergreen Short Flat sizes 4-10; Eclipse Fan (1.5-2”, optional).
Palette:
Minimum 12˝x16˝ in size; glass or wood, disposable paper palette acceptable.
Medium:
I highly recommend Michael Harding Miracle Medium MM0 (replaces Gamsol) and MM1
(replaces linseed oil), if not, Gamsol and linseed oil.
Oil paints:
I came up with a limited palette which is fun to work with and allows for mixing a full range of bright chromatic colors. It includes:
Quinacridone Rose
Phthalo Turquoise
Cadmium Yellow Lemon
Transparent Oxide Red
Cobalt Blue
Titanium White
Additional optional colors:
Chinese Orange (Sennelier)
Green Gold (MH)
Radiant Green (Gamblin)
Amethyst (MH) – or any nice purple or violet
Other items: containers for medium, paper towels or rags, easel or pochade box, gloves, brush cleaning soap.
April 3 to April 17 (Thursdays), 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, Eastern Time
**All sessions are live and will be recorded, students do not have to be present. All recordings will be available to students for 3 months after the final session, after 3 months the recording will be deleted.
Please check your email spam/junk folder for your Zoom invite.
DEMO:
Workshop Description
Flowers, as artistic subjects, offer an infinite variety in form and color, carrying deep symbolic meanings, evoking a wide range of emotions, fostering a connection to nature, and allowing for artistic freedom in terms of interpretation and style.
This immersive and vibrant workshop focuses on painting flowers both from photo references and live setup. Yelena will guide you through the essential techniques of alla prima oil painting, helping you master your approach to composition, color harmonies and values. You will work with a limited primary palette and have an option of expanding this palette to boost your skills creating rich, cohesive artworks, explore your creativity, and enhance your artistic abilities.
Workshop Outline
Each of the weekly lessons will include a live streamed painting demonstration.
Week 1: painting techniques, brushstrokes, and color mixing.
Week 2: shapes and values, understanding underlying structure of different flowers.
Week 3: color harmonies, color temperature, painting a bouquet.
Workshop Materials List
Surfaces:
Minimum 3 stretched canvases, canvas boards or panels, recommended size between 8˝x10˝ and 12˝x16˝. I use Centurion Deluxe Professional Oil Primed Linen Canvas
Panels. Small (5˝x7˝ or so) surfaces for the exercises and color thumbnails (can be scrap canvas pieces, oil paper, primed watercolor paper or board).
Brushes:
I use Rosemary and Co. brushes. My favorite are Evergreen Short Flat sizes 4-10; Eclipse Fan (1.5-2”, optional).
Palette:
Minimum 12˝x16˝ in size; glass or wood, disposable paper palette acceptable.
Medium:
I highly recommend Michael Harding Miracle Medium MM0 (replaces Gamsol) and MM1
(replaces linseed oil), if not, Gamsol and linseed oil.
Oil paints:
I came up with a limited palette which is fun to work with and allows for mixing a full range of bright chromatic colors. It includes:
Quinacridone Rose
Phthalo Turquoise
Cadmium Yellow Lemon
Transparent Oxide Red
Cobalt Blue
Titanium White
Additional optional colors:
Chinese Orange (Sennelier)
Green Gold (MH)
Radiant Green (Gamblin)
Amethyst (MH) – or any nice purple or violet
Other items: containers for medium, paper towels or rags, easel or pochade box, gloves, brush cleaning soap.