Watercolour Floral Painting Workshop for Beginners

Bring flowers to life with watercolour!


Sydney Community College
Sydney Community College
4.8 (279)
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3 hours Class size 1 to 20 guests       $144

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Discover the beauty of floral watercolour painting in this relaxed, beginner-friendly watercolour workshop in Sydney! Whether you're new to painting or looking to refine your skills, this class is the perfect introduction to essential watercolour techniques with a focus on painting delicate flowers.
In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to control your brush, smoothly blend colours, and create beautiful floral compositions. Experience how water and pigment interact while gaining confidence in creating simple botanical designs. We’ll cover everything from layering washes to achieving the perfect petal shape, ensuring you leave with practical skills for painting floral watercolours.
This class is ideal for those with no prior watercolour experience and for those wanting to enhance their botanical watercolour skills. You’ll explore the beauty of nature through painting flowers, practising watercolour florals, and discovering the joy of creative expression.
Whether you're painting flowers for personal projects, for creative relaxation, or as part of your artistic journey, this floral watercolour workshop is the ideal space for learning and enjoying the art of botanical painting.
Class content:
  • Wet-on-wet: Wet the paper with clean water and then apply watercolour paint to create soft, blended effects mostly used for backgrounds.
  • Wet-on-dry: Apply paint to dry paper, for more precise details in the second phase.
  • Dry Brushing: Use a mostly dry brush with minimal water to create texture.
  • Gradients: Create smooth transitions from one colour to another, how to use slope to make the transition smoother.
Course venue
Rozelle Campus
2A Gordon Street, Rozelle NSW 2039 (corner of Gordon St & Victoria Rd on the grounds of St. Joseph's Church)
Course materials
What you'll get
  • An understanding of the watercolour brushes and their capabilities
  • Experience with watercolours and how to transition from one colour to another
  • Introduction to how to paint a simple landscape scene
  • Experimented with wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, and dry-brushing methods
What we provide:
  • Watercolour paints
  • Watercolour paper (A3)
  • Watercolour brushes
Knowledge required
This class is perfect for those who are brand new to watercolour painting and want to explore a new creative avenue.
What to bring
What to bring to class:
  • Pencils: 1 × 2B, 1 × HB and 1 × 2H
  • Sharpener and eraser
  • Drawing pad (A4)
Additional information:
  • Closed-in shoes required
  • Please wear old clothes
  • Long hair must be tied back
Suitable for

This class is great for individuals and couples as well as for a date idea, birthday or hens party.

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Location

Sydney Community College - 2A Gordon St, Rozelle NSW

Watercolour Floral Painting Workshop for Beginners location
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Sydney Community College
Sydney Community College

4.8 (279)
5k likes

Sydney Community College is a social enterprise with a mission to offer innovative continuing adult education programmes that support individual efforts and facilitate sustainable social change.
Our mission is to enrich lives, to strengthen adult individuals and to build communities through innovative high quality continuing education and training.

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