Member Event
Water-Mixable Oils: Painting Luminous White Flowers with Tatiana Anisimova
Water-Mixable Oils: Painting Luminous White Flowers with Tatiana Anisimova
Join Tatiana Anisimova for a demonstration on painting luminous white flowers using water-mixable oils!
In this session, you'll explore essential techniques, including value, temperature, and edge control, to bring your floral subjects to life. With a focus on a limited palette, you'll learn how to master warm and cool colour relationships in both highlights and shadows, creating petals that seem to glow with radiance. Tatiana will guide you through the nuances of hard- and soft-edge control, as well as strategies for seamlessly integrating flowers into their backgrounds. You'll also discover how to simplify petals into clear value shapes for a more impactful composition.
Whether you’re a novice or an experienced artist, this demonstration promises to elevate your skills and enhance your understanding of floral painting. Feel free to relax and watch, or download the reference photo and line drawing below under the material list, and follow along!
Important Note: Please transfer line work onto canvas, as we will begin painting right away!
Materials
Cobra Water Mixable Oils: Titanium Buff
Winsor & Newton Artisan Water Mixable Oils: Titanium White, Burnt Sienna, Lemon Yellow, Permanent Rose, French Ultramarine, Ivory Black, Viridian Green, Prussian Blue
Water-Mixable Oil Medium: Linseed Oil
Cradled Panels or Artboard: 10” × 10” or 12” × 12”
Opus Essential Paper Palette Pad 9" x 12"
Princeton Aspen Series 6500 Oil Synthetic Brushes: Round 2, 6, 10
Opus Fortissimo Oil Brushes: Filbert or Flat, small-medium-sized brushes for blending
Pencil - for drawing
Water container and Paper Towels
Reference Photo - Click HERE
Line Drawing- Click HERE
Opus Virtual Demo Common Q&A - Click HERE
You will recieve an email confirmation for your regstration. If you do not recieve an email, you have not registered.
This event is for Opus Members — thank you for being part of the creative community!
Hosted by Opus Art Supplies & our Experience leader
Tatiana Anisimova is a Vancouver-based botanical and realist painter whose work explores light, colour, and the expressive beauty of flowers. Drawing on a background in biology (MSc) and continuing studies in fine art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, she combines scientific observation with a painterly approach to nature. Her paintings have been exhibited internationally, including Plantae 2026, the annual exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists in London, UK, and juried exhibitions with the National Oil & Acrylic Painters’ Society (NOAPS) and the Society of Canadian Artists (SCA). Her work has been featured in national and international publications and is held in private collections.Linktree: taartstudio
Instagram: @tania.watercolour
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