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Let It Bloom: Painting Modern Folk Florals with Heather Powers Gray
Let It Bloom: Painting Modern Folk Florals with Heather Powers Gray
What happens when nature meets imagination?
Join Heather Powers Gray for a playful exploration of modern folk florals, where bright colours, stylized shapes, and decorative patterns come together to create botanicals full of personality. Inspired by the natural world but not limited by it, Heather will show how there's no wrong way to paint a flower.
Using Holbein watercolour and gouache on Legion paper, Heather will demonstrate her process of blending pigment directly on the page to build expressive floral forms from washes and blooms, adding gouache details for contrast and character.
Along the way, attendees will explore wet-on-wet and wet-on-dry techniques, bold colour combinations, and folk-art-inspired design while discovering a more expressive and joyful approach to painting.
Materials
Holbein Artist's Watercolours: Pyrrole Red, Luminous Red, Luminous Pink, Permanent Yellow Orange, Cadmium Yellow Light, Compose Green, Terre Verte, Horizon Blue, Lavender, Payne's Grey
Holbein Artist's Gouache: Opera, Pink, Myosotis Blue, Pale Patina, Safflower Red, Seedling, Permanent White...or choose any assortment of bright colours that inspire you!
Stonehenge Aqua Watercolour Paper Blocks - Cold Press: 7" x 10"
Watercolour Brushes: Round 10, 5, 5/0
2 water containers (one for rinsing, one with clean water)
Paper towels or lint-free rag
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This event is for Opus Members — thank you for being part of the creative community!
Hosted by Opus Art Supplies & our Experience leader
Heather Powers Gray is an artist and designer based in Southwestern Indiana. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design with a background in studio art and has worked professionally as an award-winning designer while building an independent fine art practice. Heather creates modern-folk paintings primarily in watercolour and gouache, with her trained eye for composition and colour reflected in a maximalist, whimsical style. As a third-generation artist and Brand Ambassador for Holbein, Legion Paper, and General Pencil, Heather continues a lifelong love of making, inspired by the small wonders of the natural world and a constant curiosity about new materials and techniques.Website: heatherpowersgray.com
Instagram: @heathergray
Facebook: @heatherpowersgrayart
YouTube: @heatherpowersgray
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