Details:
What: Book Study: Floriography Coloring Book – Beginner Level
When: Two Opportunities to Watch (1 LIVE or 1 Replay/Download each week) on Wednesday Mornings
Dates: July 11th, August 8th, September 12th & October 10th, second Saturday of each month
Time: 10:00 am to 12:00 pm PST
Where: Zoom Live Lesson (recording to follow several hours after class)
For all you fabulous beginner watercolor girlies or those of you simply wanting a fun excuse to play on a Saturday morning, I have a fun mixed media/watercolor class for you! We will be featuring Jessica Roux’s coloring book, Floriography for a second round of monthly classes. It’s important you get the copy of the one hyperlinked in this supply list, as this one is an adult coloring book. On the second Saturday of each month, we will begin our lesson with a warm up sketch lesson. Trust me, these are wonderfully easy, and you’ll slowly build up confidence in your ability to sketch flowers. I pull photos of the featured flower each month, and I break down the process for drawing what you see. Then we’ll begin painting our featured flower (in Jessica’s book). You might opt to use Watercolor or Gouache – totally up to you! I love to add additional details like stamping, ephemera etc to create our own assemblages. Jessica has drawn all these beautiful flowers, but we get to choose how to paint and decorate them further – sky is the limit!
As with all of the book study classes I teach, I mix and match the techniques and supplies outlined in the books. I use the book as a loose reference, which also encourages you to think outside of the box in the outlined lessons. I encourage you to find your own voice through these exercises and really explore those creative liberties. The purchase of a Floriography coloring book is required for this class, so please be sure to snag your copy as soon as possible. These are our lessons for the next four months:
July11-Passion Flower, August 8-Hellebore, September12-Belledonna & October 10-A Bouquet for Bitter Ends (no sketching this final lesson, as we will focus on painting the full bouquet and adding lovely details.
Supplies:
· Watercolor paints – starting from scratch? On a budget? Try the Keff Watercolor Palette
· Floriography adult coloring book by Jessica Roux
· Pencil & eraser & pencil sharpener
· Black & White Gouache (OPTIONAL)
· Stamps (Typography/Backgrounds with Permanent Black Ink – I’ll be using IOD stamp packs like Velveteen, Countryside Memoirs, Dessins De Broderie & The Connoisseur’s Library)
· Golden High Flow Acrylic Paint in Titanium White
· Palette for mixing colors
· Watercolor brushes Round 18/0, 2, 6 & one large for backgrounds
· Heat tool or hair dryer
· Double Sided Sticky Tape (if you have it, foam tape is fun too)
· Scissors
· Water spray bottle/mister
· Watercolor paper, small pieces for sketching, roughly 3”x4”
· Stamp Ink Pads, I’ll be using permanent sepia brown & black + Distress Ink (vintage photo)
· Optional: Mini Stapler, mine is called a Tiny Attacher, by Idea-ology – this is used for tabs in your journal, should you like
· Optional – ephemera, any kind of pretty papers or scrapbook collection pretties that you might like to use
· Optional – Distress Sprays (oxide or spritz) in a color you think you’ll use often. I have Distress Spritz in Hickory Smoke, Distress Oxide Spray in Fossilized Amber, Speckled Egg & Tattered Rose
· Deli Paper or Parchment Paper or Trace Paper – something thin and see through, which we might use to create our own stamping masks
Classroom/Class Outline/Intellectual Property
Facebook Messenger Classroom - We have a private Facebook Messenger group for each of my online classes. If we are not “friends” already on Facebook, please send me a friend request here. I will add you to this Messenger group. It’s a place to communicate with fellow students, share work, and ask questions.
If you are a brand new student with me, you will receive an email from Lexi.Grenzer@gmail.com, which will include your first class outline. It is EXTREMELY important that you send me a friend request on Facebook, as we use FB Messenger for all class communication. Once we are “friends” on FB, I will add you to this private Messenger group. Keep in mind that I create a new messenger group for each and every one of my classes. In this messenger string, the very first message in the group will include your class outline, a zoom link for joining the class and any pertinent class information. Once you have taken at least one class with me, I will no longer send your class outlines via email. You will automatically be added to the corresponding FB Messenger classroom, where you will find all class details. If you have any questions, please always feel free to shoot me an email – I’m here to help whenever I can.
Please do not license the content created in my classes, duplicate/copy or reteach the classes/content (online, in person or via recording). These courses are intended for your own personal growth, and I’m delighted to share my love of art with you!