Front Yard Watercolours with Carla Flegel

Location:

Zoom

Cost:

FREE per person

Duration:

1h 30min

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) 

Sharpie Ultra Fine Black

Uni-Ball Signo Broad Pen Broad White

Sponge 

Spray Bottle

Water Container

Mr. Clean Magic Eraser

Birthday Candle

Printable Reference Image - Click HERE

Opus Virtual Demo Common Q&A - Click HERE

 

About Your Host

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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.

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