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“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life” (Pablo Picasso)
Creating a good flower composition isn’t just about throwing together flowers you like. It’s about understanding the roles each flower plays in its overall composition and how to create soft transitions between the focal flowers. So, my new workshop is focused on small flowers and greenery that are used as fillers in flower bouquets.
How can we fill out the spaces between the focal elements without overworking the whole composition? It’s a challenging subject requested by many participants. Hence, it’s a workshop about greenery mixing, background, the supporting elements of the composition, and how to add little details and create movement by breaking up dense flower compositions and drawing the viewer in for a closer look.
In floral compositions, the background creates context and allows the focal flowers to shine: the foliage and the filler flowers provide structure, fill space, and add transitional elements between different flowers and colors.
I will start the workshop with an explanation about the foliage or greenery used as a backdrop to highlight the main flowers. I will share with all participants my previous sketches about foliage and paint three (3) different examples. Foliage options: myrtle, ivy, leather fern, tree fern, dusty miller, lemon leaf, eucalyptus, or honey bracelet.
The second demo will be about filler flowers: they are small flowers and quite exciting on their own but when paired with other flowers they can complement the whole composition. I will paint three (3) different examples. Flower filler options: stock, lavender, delphinium, baby’s breath, statice, or snapdragons.
After exploring the fillers we will paint four (4) different bouquets. They will be small bouquets (posy): I want to keep them as simple as possible so we can add different fillers to each bouquet and practice the connection between the focal flowers and the background. Flowers (focal point blooms) that are included in this workshop: roses, peonies, daffodils, poppies, daisies, sunflowers, calla lilies, hydrangeas, or white Japanese anemones.
It’s a brand new workshop, I never taught a workshop about fillers and connecting shapes (small flowers and greenery), and unfortunately, due to my time availability, it won’t be repeated. You are more welcome to join my new painting adventure!
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Workshop Topics
a) The Supporting Characters: The Greenery and the Flower Fillers.
DEMONSTRATION:
b) Bringing It All Together: A Good Posy Composition.
DEMONSTRATIONS:
This workshop is a two-day format: the second day will be a mentoring session. You can send one painting to my email from May 20 (by morning) to 23. I will clear your questions and provide some feedback about your paintings on May 23 (the second session).
a) The Supporting Characters: The Greenery and the Flower Fillers.
- Playing With Greens;
- Connecting Shapes: Fillers;
- Foliage and Movement;
- Different Brush Strokes, Different Foliage;
- The Intuitive Brush Stroke: Mixing Colors on The Paper;
- Flower Fillers: Colors and Diversity;
- Spike (Line Flowers): Rhythm and Life;
- The Invisible Path Behind the Focal Point;
- Direction and Intensity: Changing the Brush Pressure;
- Experimenting With Height;
- The Background Must Tell a Story.
DEMONSTRATION:
- Three Types of Greenery (Fillers);
- Three Types of Flower Fillers.
b) Bringing It All Together: A Good Posy Composition.
- Compositional Choices for Small Bouquets;
- Focal Point and Airy Components;
- Disk Flowers and Spike Flowers;
- The Green Choices: Cool and Warm Shades;
- Harmony and Movement;
- The Fast and Loose Approach.
DEMONSTRATIONS:
- Posy 1;
- Posy 2;
- Posy 3;
- Posy 4.
This workshop is a two-day format: the second day will be a mentoring session. You can send one painting to my email from May 20 (by morning) to 23. I will clear your questions and provide some feedback about your paintings on May 23 (the second session).
Photos are for illustration only.
WORKSHOP BENEFITS:
- A limited number of participants: you can interact with me and ask your questions.
- 100% live and interactive like my in-person workshops.
- Q&A will be available after each demo: my 20 years of experience as a painting tutor will help you to reach your goals as an artist.
- Five days before the workshop you will receive my list of materials (colors, paints, brands, brushes, watercolor paper suggestions, and many photos/references).
- All workshop demos and sketch photos will be sent out to you after the workshop within five days.
- The second session is a live critique/mentoring session: I will provide some feedback about your paintings. I will also clear your questions and repeat, if necessary, a few things explained in the first session.
- The demonstrations will be uploaded to my Youtube Channel. You will receive a private Youtube link and this link will be active for a limited time so you can watch the demos as many times as you want.
Photos are for illustration only.
Registration: via Paypal
After your registration, a follow-up email will be sent to you within 48 hours with additional orientation for this workshop.
Please, note that a free zoom account is necessary to join Fabio Cembranelli's workshop.
Cancellation Policy:
If you withdraw from the workshop 7 (seven) days before the first session and ask for a refund, a 60% refund will be issued. No refunds can be given for withdrawals made within 7 days of the first session.
If you withdraw from the workshop 7 (seven) days before the first session and decide to attend a future workshop, your payment can be fully transferred to one of my future workshops. You just need to email me and ask for a payment transfer.
After your registration, a follow-up email will be sent to you within 48 hours with additional orientation for this workshop.
Please, note that a free zoom account is necessary to join Fabio Cembranelli's workshop.
Cancellation Policy:
If you withdraw from the workshop 7 (seven) days before the first session and ask for a refund, a 60% refund will be issued. No refunds can be given for withdrawals made within 7 days of the first session.
If you withdraw from the workshop 7 (seven) days before the first session and decide to attend a future workshop, your payment can be fully transferred to one of my future workshops. You just need to email me and ask for a payment transfer.
Photos are for illustration only.