BETWEEN CONTROL & CHAOS
Mastering Detail, Transparency & Creative Freedom Through Botanical Forms
WELCOME TO "BETWEEN CONTROL & CHAOS"!
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso
A detailed mixed-media course exploring transparency, delicate detail, layering, color, and creative freedom through botanical forms.
We’ll begin with clear techniques and precise guidance, then gradually make room for experimentation, intuition, and unexpected discoveries. The botanical project becomes your playground, but the techniques you learn can travel far beyond flowers and plants and become part of your own creative language.
WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR
This class is for anyone curious to explore mixed media through detail, transparency, color, and botanical forms.
Perfect for those who love clear step-by-step guidance but also want room to experiment, play, and develop their own creative language, whether you’re a complete beginner or an experienced artist.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
You’ll learn how to create delicate botanical forms using transparency, layering, gradients, and fine details; combine different water-based media and understand how they interact; build a balanced composition from an expressive background; and use controlled techniques as a foundation for experimentation and creative freedom.
Most importantly, you’ll learn not just what to do, but why it works, so you can take these techniques far beyond botanicals and use them in your own mixed-media art.
LIST OF SUPPLIES
For this class, you only need very basic water-based colours, such as gouache, acrylics, watercolours, tempera or inks. I recommend working on 300 gsm watercolour paper.
Below, you’ll find the full list of materials I used in this class, but everything can be easily substituted. Please feel free to use whatever materials you already have at hand.
• Mungyo Watercolor or similar
• Canson Montval 300gsm Watercolour Paper or similar
• Acrylic ink – Orange Flame, Shimmering Gold
• Gold Mirror Effect Leaves
• Golden Fluorescent Orange-Yellow Acrylic Paint
• Collection of Mica Powder
• Pebeo Gedeo Mixtion Relief Gilding Paste
• Brushes
• Pencil
• Masking Tape
Your Instructor
My paintings is the creation of opposites in a variety of rhythms and textures.
I combine different materials in order to overcome the challenge of achieving harmony and unity in my work. Some of my paintings are highly textured and have imbedded objects.
I explore this fine line of ambiguity between pure abstraction and implied realism through the process of layering color and organic texture. My objective is to evoke a sensation or memory in the viewer, of a place remembered or imagined, without literal reference to landscape.
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