Front Yard Watercolours with Carla Flegel
About This Experience
Paint-a-long and participate or join as a viewer - all are welcome!
At this virtual demo, Carla Flegel will be set up in her front yard to guide you through a plein air experience of painting her house! Beginning with thumbnail sketches, she will show you how to tackle a plein air painting, focusing on shapes, breaking them down and comparing sizes without measuring to get proportions and angles. This front yard experience will be like painting in the wild!
Materials
Opus Essential Watercolours: Alizarin Crimson, Vermillion, Arylide deep, Lemon Yellow, Prussian Blue, French Ultramarine, Sap Green, Burnt Sienna, Purple
Fabriano Artistico 140lb CP - Approx. 9”x12 or 8”x10
Synthetic Watercolour Brush: Mop or Round (size 12 or 14)
Uni-Ball Signo Broad Pen Broad White
Mr. Clean Magic Eraser
Birthday Candle
Printable Reference Image - Click HERE
Opus Virtual Demo Common Q&A - Click HERE
About Your Host
Being creative has been a significant part of who Carla Flegel has been for most of her life. She is a self-taught painter, starting with the Folk Art Craze of the '80s and later settling on watercolour as her medium of choice.
The unpredictability and magic that happens when paper, water, and paint meet make her paintings vibrant and alive. Her style developed and is described as 'painterly,' 'colourful,' and 'happy.' She prefers wet into wet watercolour, and the casual accidents of bloom and blends lend to this spontaneous, vibrant rendition of the scene.
Carla is an avid plein-air painter and urban sketcher, which has changed how and why she travels. She aims to evoke a feeling in the viewer that causes them to smile when viewing her paintings.
Carla is a skills-focused instructor and loves to encourage beginner painters to look at the world through a painter's eye and experience the joy and pleasure of a creative lifestyle. She teaches in-person classes locally, offers paint party-style events, and has an online class presence.
Website: mysketchyfriends.com
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