Chicory Flowers for Beginners: Watercolor + Gouache

Chicory Flowers for Beginners: Watercolor + Gouache

I don't know about you guys, but I just love chicories! They are so humble and beautiful, they look like a tiny pieces of sky fallen into the grass. They bloom in late summer throughout the autumn and you can see them in the meadows or by the roads.

This class is all about these lovely wild flowers.

We will explore the possibilities of combining traditional transparent watercolor to create warm, subtle, seamless background, and gouache paints for the chicory.

First we will spend some time to learn how to draw the chicory flowers, the stems, buds and leaves.

We will also have a brief talk about the color palette I chose for the Class Project, about the watercolor paints and the gouache paints we will work with.

The opacity of the gouache paints is something that is really special about them, they provide perfect coverage and highlights that are needed to bring the painting to life.

If you are interested in gouache, check out my class Snowdrops - Gouache Painting for Beginners.

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So if you love painting flowers and are open to mixed media, join me in this class and paint some chicory flowers with warm autumnal background with me!

As a Class Project we are going to paint some cute blue chicory flowers.

There will be a watercolor background painted using wet on wet technique, and then we are going to work with gouache to paint the chicory flowers, stems, leaves and buds.

We are going to practice mixing our own color tones so that we do not have to rely only on the paints we have in our gouache sets.

The colors used in the project:

Watercolor background: Golden, Green Earth, Sepia, Azure blue (White Nights watercolor set)

Gouache flowers: Ultramarine, Yellow, Burnt Sienna, White

Mixing the gouache paints:

Ultramarine + Yellow = Green for the stems, buds and leaves

Ultramarine + Burnt Sienna = Grey (for small details in the buds)

Ultramarine + White = light blue for the flowers

Try mixed media to create a warm and autumnal artwork featuring blue chicory flowers

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What you will learn

• Learn to draw simple chicory flowers
• Combine traditional watercolor and gouache into one artwork
• Work with highlights to bring your painting to life

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Level: All Levels

Duration: 1 hour

Instructor: Jana Raninis