How to Paint Flowers with Victoria Cantons

Description:

Explore techniques for painting and drawing flowers with artist Victoria Cantons. Using watercolour, you’ll discover how flowers can symbolise emotions and how different drawing styles can shape the mood and story of your artwork. Victoria will guide you through her loose, expressive approach, using colour, line, and text to create vibrant works that capture the fleeting beauty of flowers.

Materials used:

• Paper
• Paint (Watercolour or Acrylic)
• Paint Palette
• Brushes
• A Pot of Water
• Pencils
• Marker Pens
• Coloured Pencils
• Ink (optional)
• Image Pack (go to Downloadable Resources)

Victoria Cantons

Victoria Cantons is a conceptual visual artist working in London, UK. Cantons’s artistic work is varied and is presented in multiple mediums including painting, neon, poetry, text, performance, photographs and videos, connecting and disconnecting psychological boundaries in the relationships we have with ourselves and others. Her work is autobiographical and confessional with political undercurrents. Drawing on her own life experiences she explores themes of identity, femininity and gender through self portraits, depictions of flowers, and often quoted text from a wide variety of sources.

Download the easy-to-follow workshop flash sheet, to follow along with written instructions.

Downloadable Resources

Risk Assessment Template

Image Reference Pack

Step-by-Step Guide

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