Question on botanical watercolor painting

Question on botanical watercolor painting

At Watercolor Academy, we receive questions from all over the World. Here's the question we got from Audrey.

"Thank you for making great courses for us! I have the Drawing Academy and Anatomy Master Class courses, which are really helpful, and now I want to learn watercolor painting. Is there a section on botanical type work at Watercolor Academy?"

Answer by Vladimir London, the Watercolor Academy tutor

Thank you for your question about Watercolor Academy. Yes, in the Online course, you will get lessons on botanical and landscape painting; however, I believe there may be a misunderstanding of what comprehensive art education is about. You're talking about a specific genre, which is like asking "how to draw a rose" instead of asking "what drawing skills do I need to paint flowers and other subjects." The distinction is significant. Focusing on a single subject would not give you versatile skills needed for artistic mastery.

What you really need is a strong foundation—knowing your art materials, understanding color theory and color mixing, mastering different painting methods and techniques, learning how to preserve white paper, composition rules, aerial perspective, and so on. Once you understand these fundamentals, it doesn't matter what you're painting—the same principles will apply for every genre.

Many online classes offer "one-trick pony" lessons that lack depth. The Watercolor Academy is different. Instead of just showing you how to paint a particular thing, we teach the fundamental methods, and techniques that you can apply to anything—whether it's flowers, landscapes, portraits, or figures. Once you grasp these principles and techniques, it will be easy for you to paint whatever you see or imagine. Watercolor Academy provides classical art education. Instead of teaching you how to paint a particular genre, we focus on the ways of painting that you can apply to any subject—like botanical illustrations, landscapes, portraits, or figures.

There are two courses at Watercolor Academy - Online and Correspondence. If you are serious about getting the advanced level of painting skills, go for the best and cheapest personal tutoring course available today on the Internet: https://watercoloracademy.com/personal-tutoring

We guarantee that by the end of this course, you will become a well-rounded, professional painter in watercolor. This course includes multiple topics on botanical painting, and because your curriculum will be tailored to your needs, this genre could be the main focal point of your individual tutoring. However, you will also learn all other things you need to know - the color theory, color contrasts, how to mix paints, 5 methods and 9 techniques of watercolor painting, 15 elements of composition, golden proportions, and much more.

To learn how to paint in watercolor, enroll now