FLOURISH: GROWING YOUR PRACTICE

Description Are You Ready to Embrace Making "Mistakes" and Grow Your Practice? Flourish is an abstract floral painting course designed to help artists loosen up, explore their creative voice, and grow a joyful, consistent practice. Join artist Kasey Moran as she guides you through expressive florals, playful experimentation, and learning to trust the process—mistakes and all.   What You’ll Learn in This Abstract Floral Painting Course: Students will be introduced to the following concepts: Practicing variations of one still life Working on multiple pieces Create an abstract floral from start to finish Get loose in your approach Embracing mistakes Exploring a limited palette Challenges to consider : Using unfamiliar palette Limited brush strokes Use larger brushes  Varying application pressure ( ex. swift, slow, hard, delicate) COURSE IS OPEN! Lifetime Access - Download All Content Prerecorded - Work at Your Own Pace Cost - $59 REGISTER NOW! DESCRIPTION OF LESSONS LESSON 1 - ABSTRACT FLORALS IN GOUACHE In our first main lesson, we get our creative juices flowing by working with gouache (or other water media) to start a couple of small paintings.  I will demonstrate two of these in my lesson.  I find it rather helpful to complete at least 3-6 small paintings at a time.  This is a great way for you to explore variety and to allow drying time while you work on others.   I will begin this lesson by sharing a quick demo of how I work on several at a time.  Then I move to a real time video of completing 2 warm up paintings using the same reference photo.  We will then take one of these smaller, warm ups to create a larger painting in Lesson 2.  This is also an excellent practice to use when creating a series of paintings! LESSONS 2 AND 3 - ABSTRACT FLORALS IN OIL In Lesson 2, we will be using a limited palette to practice tonal variation and color mixing skills. We will also be using this palette for part 2 of this lesson.  The most important lesson that you will learn from this lesson is that LESS IS MORE!  Meaning less color choices can really build color mixing skills.  You are welcome to use oil paints, or acrylic paints and glazing medium for this lesson.   In the second part of this lesson, I’m demonstrating how I paint a flower in oils, using the same reference photo from the previous lesson. You will learn to squint, push paint around, take risks and embrace your mistakes.  You will practice being loose and tight to bring variety to your artwork.  Most importantly, you will learn as you go!  Be open to the unknown! COURSE IS OPEN! Lifetime Access - Download All Content Prerecorded - Work at Your Own Pace Cost - $59 REGISTER NOW! Meet Your Instructor, Kasey Moran My name is Kasey Moran.  I have been drawing and painting all my life. I was self taught until 2014, when I began taking online art classes.  Later I began taking on independent study with Martin Campos. I live in Asheville, NC with my husband and our two teenage guys. PRIVATE GROUP JUST FOR YOU   This course will have a private Facebook group just for you!  I will be actively involved with the class via Facebook during the four weeks that the course is open!  I am really excited about working through these exercises with each of you! COURSE SUPPLIES Below is a list of the supplies that I will be using for the projects in this course.  However, you are always encouraged to use what you have on hand.  Substrates: Fabriano water color paper. I recommend 140lb or 300 lb I’m also demonstrating on hot press paper which is smooth. 3-6 small sheets around 7x7 or 8x8 inches. 12 x 12 in Arches oil paper or Gessoed Board or Canvas Paints: Windsor Newton Designers Gouache (or other water media) Primary set which contains blue, red, yellow, green, black and zinc white. Oil Paints Titanium white Black Hansa Yellow Raw Umber Emerald green Magenta Prussian Blue Chromatic Black Yellow Ochre Indian Yellow Titanium White If working in acrylics: Same colors Same tools Golden Glazing medium Water Mediums: Liquin Original Gamsol If using acrylics instead of oils will need Golden glazing liquid Brushes: Choose bigger brushes than what you think you need. Brushes: 1 inch flat watercolor brush. Other Tools: 2 inch rubber color shaper 1-2 inch chip brush 1 in. Rubber color shaper 2 in. Rubber color shaper Brayer 1 inch artist tape for securing your paper to a board Container or large cup of clean water Palette Knife Palette or Palette paper for oils. Paper towels for wiping brushes Palette to hold watercolor and for mixing. (Heavy duty plastic plate) PRINT SUPPLY LIST! IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON ACCESSING CLASSES AND SELLING WORK CREATED IN THIS COURSE: **Upon purchasing your course, you will be asked to create an account and go through the purchase process (even if the cost is $0 for a free course).  If you have already created an account, after purchase your course will IMMEDIATELY be available under “LOGIN” at the top right-hand of karabullockart.com. **If your course does not show up, please email us at [email protected] **Lifetime Access: When you purchase a class, you will have access to download the course videos and keep them for your personal use for life. While we strive to keep courses available on the site long term, lifetime access does not guarantee that videos will remain streamable on the website indefinitely. From time to time, we may update, modify, or retire older courses to maintain the quality and functionality of the site. If a course is ever scheduled to be removed, we will notify students in advance and provide plenty of time to download the videos. **Due to the nature of the immediate availability of the course, all purchases are nonrefundable. **Please talk to the artist of the course about his/her policy on selling artwork created in this course prior to selling any works created during course.  Some artists will allow it, while others do not.  Thank you for your support.