Online Watercolor Class: Poppies & Bumblebees

Tuesday February 25 & March 4
10am - 12pm (Pacific Time)

Come join me and learn how to draw and paint poppies and bumblebees with watercolor. In our first session you will learn how to draw and paint poppies. In our second session, you will learn how to draw and paint bumblebees and add them to your paintings of poppies.

Online using Zoom.

(For more information about how to use Zoom, click here.)

The invitation link to join the class on Zoom will be sent to you around 9:45am on the day of our classes, 15 minutes before class starts. Have your supplies set up and we will jump right in.

All skill levels welcome.

Below is the list of supplies I used for this project. Feel free to use your own favorite supplies if you prefer.

Copier paper to practice drawing poppies & bumblebees

Watercolor paper to practice painting poppies & bumblebees (this could be a watercolor sketchbook or scraps of watercolor paper you have on hand or you could use nice paper but this is for practice so you decide)

Pencil

Kneaded Eraser

For my poppy & bumblebee paintings I absolutely love this watercolor paper at this size:

Arches Blocks Cold Press 5.9 x 11.8 (https://amzn.to/4hfkyR3)

My watercolor paints are all Daniel Smith:
Green Gold

Sap Green

Hansa Yellow Light

Quinacridone Gold

Quinacridone Burnt Orange

Cadmium Red Medium Hue

Alizarin Crimson

Quinacridone Rose

Rose of Ultramarine

Indigo

Watercolor brushes:
Black Gold, 311 series, Size 2
Princeton Heritage, Series 4050 Round Size 2
Princeton Heritage, Series 4050 Round Size 6

Water

Paper towels