Flowers Close-up Painting Workshop

Learn how to paint flowers up close in Sassafras!



5 hours Class size 1 to 8 guests

$175 (Afterpay available)


Looking for fun things to do in Sassafras? Embrace your creative side at a delightful painting class with Sussanne Morton!
Learn how to paint beautiful flowers up close. Perfect for beginners and intermediate painters, this workshop will enhance your skills giving you the confidence to continue painting flowers at home.
Working with acrylic paints on canvas, you will be guided every step of the way.
After selecting your chosen flower (photos provided) you’ll, discover how to capture shadows and highlights and adding intricate details to enhance your painting. This painting workshop will give you a solid understanding of the steps needed to build your composition from start to finish.
By the end of the class, you will have completed your own stunning flower portrait on a stretched canvas. A perfect gift or painting to decorate your home.

Knowledge required
Basic drawing skills will be helpful when drawing up your painting, but your tutor will assist throughout.
 
What you'll get
50cm x 50cm stretched canvas, pencils, paintbrushes, paints, water jars, rags and palette.
 
What to bring
Water bottle, apron, sketchbook and snacks.
 
Location

Up Gallery Sassafras - 363 Mount Dandenong Tourist Road, Sassafras VIC

Approx 35km from CBD or take bus 363 from Upper Ferntree Gully station (on the Belgrave line). The bus stops in Sassafras are just out front of the gallery entrance! There is free parking at the back of the Gallery in Prince street.

Flowers Close-up Painting Workshop location
Your teacher

Sussanne Morton
Sussanne Morton


I have always loved Painting. I love to express the beauty I see around me in the natural world.
I attended art school at age 17 but then ventured out on my own in a bid to develop my own style.
Since 1995, I've been experimenting with the use of various mediums from pastels and colour pencils to watercolours, mixed mediums, Acrylics and Oils.
I have been exhibiting and selling my work through mixed exhibitions, in galleries and venues on the Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Singapore.
My work selling also to collectors overseas.
I paint mostly in oils. My works are created in a traditional layering process. Petals are created in several layers, blending repeatedly with each new layer to create realistic silky, delicate petals, whilst shadows and depth are attained through rich glazes.
My larger than life paintings represent actual captured moments in time, and are a culmination of many years of gathering photographic reference for my work.
My study of flowers concentrates on nature’s unique design handiwork as well as the effects of natural lighting upon the blooms. It is the play of sunlight and shadows in a dance of contrasts, tones and reflected colour that creates the magic that brings the paintings to life.
Since 2011 I have been living in the Dandenongs. The beautiful scenery, gardens and magic on the mountain inspires my work. There is inspiration everywhere.
“Find what inspires you creatively. If you find your passion, your art will flourish.”
I will guide my students to paint from the heart, and develop their own unique style.
2024-11-29 15:00:00
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