From Helen Wells' Bold + Fold

From Helen Wells' Bold + Fold - Online Course

Helen Wells does a very nice job with her online course: Bold + Fold. Her instruction focuses on painting botanical impressions and putting them together into a concertina booklet form that she shows how to construct.

That said, I'm not a painter of botanicals. But I gave it a try by doing a fair number of 'floral' impressions in watercolor. None of them were stand-alone pieces. But there were bits among a few of them that I liked. So, rather than creating a concertina, I chose to cut out the bits I liked and created this piece on a blank piece of multi-media paper.

Except for the black of the vase outline and the petal work around the pink circles, the rest were the bits glued on in a floral-like arrangement. All the elements in the vase were created using different kinds of brushes and brushwork than is my norm.

What the course did for me - was to get me to paint that I haven't done in what seems like a very long time. Sometimes courses serve as a good nudge - to get to work!

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