May We Fly — Native Flowers Lessons

Lesson 1 | Watercolor Tools

This video discusses the different types of supplies that will be used throughout this course, as well as some of my own personal favorites. If you would l

Learn more about the watercolor supplies we’ll be using in this course.

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Lesson 2 | Warm Up

Before beginning any painting session, I highly recommend taking the time to do a warm up. This helps loosen up your hands and get you in the “zone.” My warmups usual

Enjoy playing with the paint in this fun and relaxing warmup.

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Lesson 3 | Line Work

Getting comfortable with your brush is an important step before moving on to the rest of the lessons. By simply repeating lines and playing with the different

Practice creating all sorts of strokes and marks using just one brush.

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Lesson 4 | Leaves and Ferns

The varieties of leaves I’ll be showing you in this lesson can all be made using variations of the same stroke. They take a bit of practice, but I promi

Learn how to paint a variety of leaves using just one stroke!

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Lesson 5 | Flowers Part One

This lesson will walk you through how to paint a purple echinacea and a simple daisy. We’ll start by preparing our palette and mixing color to get just

Learn how to paint sweet and simple echinacea and daisies.

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Lesson 6 | Flowers Part Two

Continuing on with our flower practice, we’ll now walk through how to paint black-eyed susans, oxeye daisies, goldenrod, and some sweet, simple flowers

Learn how to paint black-eyed susans, goldenrod, daisies, and sweet simple flowers.

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Lesson 7 | Final Project

Now that you’ve practiced all of these different flowers, it’s time to bring them together into one beautiful painting! I won’t be doing much instructing in thi

Bring all of the flowers together in your own beautiful composition.

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