This class teaches a low-risk, highly-flexible approach to watercolor painting for pattern design. Using small blocks of watercolor paper, I will show you how to work on a dynamic canvas and create your painting as a half-drop repeat.

 Following a step-by-step process, the class covers:

• Finding motifs
• Creating a color palette, keeping in mind trend and color research
• Composition, Storytelling and Flow
• Scale
• Sketching
• Layout and Color Thumbnails
• Painting, and
• Checking the repeat.

This class is for anyone who wants to work more freely with watercolor. Because the method uses small blocks of paper, it is easier to take risks and be more adventurous with your paint. If you’re tired of making small, neat watercolors… if you want to be less tentative with your paint… if there’s a wild painter inside you that longs to be set free, this class is for you. It is also for surface pattern designers who work digitally and want to have more hand-painted work in their portfolios.