In this workshop create beautiful, lifelike paper flowers with artist Michaela Yearwood-Dan. From her studio, Michaela will guide you step-by-step through the process of dyeing and shaping crepe paper to craft realistic, spring-inspired bouquets to decorate your space.
Known for her vibrant use of color and texture, Michaela explores themes of community, abundance, and joy through her expressive paintings and intricate ceramics often using flowers as a symbol in her work.
• Crepe paper
• Inks
• Coffee
• Paints
• Pieces of Crepe paper
• Brushes
• Glue
• Smoothing object
• Foil
• Wire (optional)
• Markers
• Pencils
• Water
• Paper Flower template
• (Downloadable Resources)
Michaela Yearwood-Dan (b. 1994, London, UK) creates paintings, works on paper, ceramics, and installations that endeavor to build spaces of community, joy, and abundance. Her work blends influences like Blackness, queerness, femininity, healing rituals, and carnival culture. Using various media, she incorporates botanical motifs and personal reflections within abstract forms and heavy paint drips. Whether in large paintings or smaller ceramics and works on paper, her art often reflects a welcoming, and inviting atmosphere. Rejecting rigid identities, Yearwood-Dan explores creating spaces that allow for unlimited and unbounded ways of being.
Download the easy-to-follow workshop flash sheet to follow along with written instructions.
