Instructor: Crystal Beshara

Elegance in Watercolour — 19 June 2027

Name: Elegance in Watercolour — 19 June 2027
Brand: Crystal Beshara
SKU: MPS-CB-270619
Price: 175.00 CAD
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Painting the Light — Watercolour White Techniques

Capture the magic

Mid to late June is the time for white peonies. How do you paint a white flower without using white paint? How do you paint as complex a flower as a white peony? Frankly you don't. You start with something a little less challenging.

Learn to paint an elegant white Japanese Anemone flower with Crystal Beshara. Using Crystal's step-by-step, expert guidance, you'll create your own delicate floral painting, capturing the light in white. We'll send you home with a bouquet of freshly picked white peonies to practice what you've learned.

What you’ll learn

This one-day workshop takes a deep dive into the complex world of painting whites. Using a stunning Japanese Anemone as reference, you will learn how to mix luminous shadows, handle delicate glazing and create a striking sense of depth with just the right amount of expressiveness

Crystal will teach you the techniques you need and guide you, step-by-step through completion in this full-day botanical watercolour workshop. Techniques you’ll learn include:

Mixing luminous shadows
Applying delicate glazes
Mastering negative space
Creating soft contrasting backgrounds.

Experience required

This workshop is suitable for intermediate & advanced watercolourists wanting to develop and improve their watercolour skills and techniques.

Included

All materials and tools — you are welcome to bring your own if you prefer
Step-by-step guided demonstrations
Practice sheets for techniques
Reference images
Your masterpiece

Also included

This workshop is part of our Passion for Petals Festival running throughout the month of June. During this full-day workshop you'll have freshly picked late-season white peonies to inspire you.

You'll get to take home your own bouquet, courtesy of Apple Hill Peonies. Late season peonies include Madame Claude Tain, a brilliant white with a blush of the lightest of yellows in the centre, Monsieur Jules Elie, an elegant pink and classic Ivory Victory speaks for itself.*

About Crystal Beshara

Crystal is an international award-winning contemporary realist painter and sought-after educator. A self-taught realist, she spent her rural childhood observing and drawing the natural world around her. Crystal shifts easily between mediums — watercolour, gouache and oil — focusing on realism juxtaposed with expressive, gestural brushstrokes.

Her popular creative workshops are well structured and geared towards developing participant’s skills. Benefit from Crystal's more than 25 years’ teaching experience in this workshop.

Good to know

Please arrive a little early, settle in and help yourself to some refreshments. Late arrivals disrupt the rest of the class, and it may not be possible for the instructor to help you catch up.