🌸 Peonies in Watercolor Live Online Workshop 

📅 May 23, 2026 (Saturday)
🕕 19:00 Jerusalem Time
⏳ Duration: ~3.5–4 hours (with a 15-minute break)
📹 Recording available with lifetime access

💎 The Flow Room - Included into Lapis Lazuli & Amethyst tiers. 

Workshop Schedule

🔵 Part 1 — Preparation: understanding the subject, drawing, tonal values, composition, color planning
☕ 15-minute break
🔵 Part 2 — Painting 1 (loose on white) + Painting 2 (wet-on-wet with dark background)

 ENROLLMENT PERIOD 

Peonies are one of the most beloved flowers in art — full of romance, softness, and a certain quiet drama. Layer upon layer of petals, each one curving, overlapping, catching light in a different way.

They are also one of the most challenging flowers to paint in watercolor without losing that feeling of freshness and flow.

In this workshop, we will slow down, look carefully, and then paint freely.

Before we ever touch paper with paint, we will spend real time understanding the peony — its structure, its petal logic, its shapes simplified. Because the more clearly you see, the more freely you can paint.

We will create two paintings, each exploring a different approach:

• one loose and direct, on a white background — light, fresh, airy
• one deeply atmospheric, wet-on-wet, with a rich dark background that makes the flowers glow

Both paintings. One workshop.

Two completely different feelings — and both will teach you something different about how watercolor thinks.

What We Will Paint

🌸 Painting 1 — Loose Peonies on White

We’ll begin with a bright, open approach on dry white paper, focusing on:

• capturing the lightness and volume of petals without overworking them
• simplifying complex petal layers into readable, confident shapes
• working with color temperature to create depth and glow
• knowing when to stop — leaving the white paper as part of the painting

This piece is about freedom, freshness, and trusting your first marks.

🌙 Painting 2 — Peonies with Dark Atmosphere (Wet-on-Wet)

In the second painting, we work into a wet, dark background — and let the flowers
emerge from it:

• wetting the paper from both sides for full control of the wet surface
• laying in deep, moody backgrounds that bloom and flow
• placing flowers into wet paint — soft edges, glowing light
• combining loose washes with selected detail to guide the eye

This is where peonies become not just flowers — but light against darkness,
softness against depth.

What You Will Learn

• how to simplify a complex subject without losing recognition
• how to build volume and form in a loose style
• how to combine controlled areas + free watercolor flow
• how to use contrast (tone, edges, texture) to guide the viewer
• how to create a painting that feels alive, not overworked
• how to develop your own interpretation, not just copy

Who This Workshop Is For

• beginner in watercolor who wants to understand structure better
• artists who feel stuck in details and want more freedom
• those who want to achieve that “easy done”, flowing look
• anyone who loves animals and expressive painting

Why Join Live

Painting together live is a completely different experience from watching a recording
alone.
You stay focused. You move through the process step by step. You can ask questions in real time. And there is something about painting at the same moment as
others — it keeps you present, and it keeps you going.
There will be a Q&A session throughout, and I will guide you as if we are painting
side by side.
And of course — if you can’t join live, you will receive the full recording with lifetime access.

Community & Support

You’ll also have the option to join our private community space, where you can:

• share your artworks
• ask questions
• receive feedback (if you want it)
• connect with other artists

Access

After the workshop, the recording will be uploaded to your Library, where you can watch and paint at your own pace — anytime, if you bought it separately OR till your subscription is active if you joined via the Flow Room.

💎 Enrollment & Flow Room Members

🗓 Enrollment is open till 23 May only.

After that, this workshop will be available only inside Flow Room — Lapis Lazuli & Amethyst tier.

💎 If you’re already in Flow Room (Lapis Lazuli & Amethyst) — you get access to this class automatically.