by Sukanya | Oct 17, 2023
Learn advanced watercolor techniques in a 10-day watercolor floral workshop to dive deep into the world of watercolor painting and explore the beauty of floral subjects.
Course curriculum:
*Advanced Techniques in Watercolors*
Mastering control over water-to-paint ratio for precision
Advanced brushwork for intricate petal and leaf details
Exploring textures using unconventional tools (sponges, palette knives, salt)
*Floral Anatomy and Realism*
Studying detailed floral anatomy (roses, peonies, lilies)
Breaking complex flowers into layers for painting
Practicing realistic petal textures and veining techniques
*Complex Color Blending and Gradients*
Creating depth with multi-layered color blending
Techniques for seamless gradients in petals and leaves
Experimenting with unusual color palettes for creative florals
*Negative Painting Techniques*
Introduction to negative space painting for florals
Layering to achieve intricate foliage and background effects
Painting flowers emerging from negative space
*Dynamic Floral Compositions*
Understanding advanced composition principles (rule of thirds, golden ratio)
Arranging overlapping flowers for depth and interest
Balancing large and small elements in floral arrangements
*Transparent and Delicate Florals*
Painting delicate, transparent flowers (e.g., poppies, irises)
Layering and lifting techniques for soft, translucent effects
Focus on creating subtle shadows and highlights
*Backgrounds and Context*
Creating dynamic watercolor backgrounds (wet-on-wet, gradient, textured)
Integrating florals into abstract or scenic backgrounds
Balancing focus between flowers and background
*Exploring Different Styles*
Loose vs. hyper-realistic floral watercolors
Incorporating abstract or impressionistic elements
Creating unique personal styles while painting florals
Materials:
– Watercolours Cakes or Tubes
– Watercolour paper (Has to be watercolor, not regular paper – Brustro, canson, chitrapat, or any other watercolor paper brand)
– Round brushes and flat brush (8,12 round brush and 1/2 or 1inch flat brush)
– Closed palette for tube colors OR regular palette for watercolor cakes
– 2 Water cups or bowl
– Rag cloth
– Masking tape (if you don’t have it then transparent cello tape)
Age: Adults and Children above 12 years who are proficient with basic watercolor techniques
Time:
Classes will be held on Sundays (5pm-6.30pm IST)
Fee: Rs 5000 for the 10-day course
Venue: Online classes on Zoom
For registrations and details, WhatsApp on 9900052747
About Bloom and Grow:
Bloom & Grow facilitates artist-led online and offline workshops for individuals and for corporates across the world.
To stay updated with the upcoming sessions, join WhatsApp group with the link https://chat.whatsapp.com/HKDsGqJSWGgBtDENOcMVea
by Sukanya | Aug 22, 2022
We commence a 10-sessions in-depth Watercolor Portrait course that will help you master this medium to make Realistic Portraits.
In this 10-day course, you’ll learn to:
- Master essential watercolour techniques: washes, blending, wet-on-wet, and wet-on-dry methods.
- Use colour theory and the colour wheel to depict skin tones, shadows, and highlights realistically.
- Create depth and dimension by understanding light sources, shading, and highlights.
- Improve brush control for fine details like hair, eyes, and skin textures.
- Build transparent layers to add depth and vibrancy through layering and glazing.
- Convey emotions through facial expressions and thoughtful colour choices.
- Balance your portrait’s composition by incorporating backgrounds and settings.
Enhance your watercolour skills and bring portraits to life with Bloom & Grow!
Day: 10 Sundays
Time: 5pm to 6.30pm (IST)
Fee: ₹4500 per person (All 10 sessions)
Venue: Online classes on zoom
For registrations and details, WhatsApp on 9900052747
About Bloom and Grow:
Bloom & Grow facilitates artist-led online and offline workshops for individuals and for corporates across the world.
To stay updated with the upcoming sessions, join WhatsApp group with the link https://chat.whatsapp.com/HKDsGqJSWGgBtDENOcMVea
by Shravani | Sep 8, 2021
We commence an 8-sessions in-depth watercolor course that will help you to master this unique medium completely. Learn watercolor techniques, understand the medium and pigment behavior, and much more in this course with us.
Introduction & Essential Techniques
- Overview of watercolor materials: paper, brushes, and paints
- Understanding color mixing and transparency
- Practicing washes: wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, dry brush
- Exercise: Creating simple gradients and basic shapes
Floral Painting – Hanging Pots with Flowers
- Understanding light and shadow in florals
- Creating soft petals and sharp leaves using wet-on-wet vs. wet-on-dry
- Layering techniques for depth and texture
- Painting the hanging flower pots with a loose and expressive style
Landscape
- Perspective in landscapes: creating depth with color and value
- Painting textured stone paths using dry brush technique
- Capturing the glow of sunlight with warm and cool contrasts
- Blending soft sky gradients and distant mountains
Still Life – Apples
- Understanding organic shapes and natural textures
- Layering translucent washes for a realistic fruit effect
- Creating contrast and shadows for a three-dimensional look
- Painting apples with blended colors and delicate leaf veins
Still Life – Jars and Drapery
- Learning to render glass, ceramic, and reflective surfaces
- Using controlled brushwork for fabric folds and highlights
- Capturing subtle color variations for realism
- Establishing light and shadow to bring objects to life
Materials:
– Watercolours Cakes or Tubes
– Watercolour paper (Has to be watercolor, not regular paper – Brustro, canson, chitrapat, or any other watercolor paper brand)
– Round brushes and flat brush (0.2.6, 8,12 round brush and 1/2 or 1inch flat brush)
– Closed palette for tube colors OR regular palette for watercolor cakes
– 2 Water cups or bowl
– Rag cloth
– Masking tape
Age: Adults and Children above 10 years
Fee: Rs 4000 per person for 8 classes (Each session for 1.5 hours)
Venue: Online classes on Zoom
For registrations and details, WhatsApp on 9900052747
About Bloom and Grow:
Bloom & Grow facilitates artist-led online and offline workshops for individuals and for corporates across the world.
To stay updated with the upcoming sessions, join WhatsApp group with the link https://chat.whatsapp.com/HKDsGqJSWGgBtDENOcMVea
by Shravani | Feb 28, 2021
Discover the captivating world of soap making in our immersive workshop designed for enthusiasts of all levels.
By the end of the 5-hour exhaustive workshop, one is competent enough to set up a small-scale handcrafted natural soaps, body bar business.
The workshop goes much beyond learning the melt and pour soap process. The course content includes learning:
Cold Process Soaps with Infusions – Natural Colorants, Micas, Pigments
Hot Process Soaps
Textured soaps
Relaxing Body Bars
Goat Milk Soaps, Glycerin soaps with Bases (VEGAN SOAPS)
Kids Favorite Bars
Learn about using Aromatherapy Oils and Fragrance Oils.
Take back all the samples that you create along with a recipe handout.
When: Saturday, March 29th
Time: 12pm to 6pm
Fee: Rs 5500 per person (Inclusive of all material)
Venue: Jayanagar
The workshop would be for a small group of a maximum of 5 people. Limited seats are available.
Please do WhatsApp us 9900052747 for any further details or clarifications.
To stay updated with the sessions, join WhatsApp group with the link https://chat.whatsapp.com/CP1RliwfMNdDZnoCJaclOn
About Bloom and Grow:
Bloom & Grow facilitates artist-led virtual and offline workshops for individuals and for corporates across the world.
by Shravani | Aug 27, 2020
We commence an 12-sessions in-depth watercolor course that will help you to master this unique medium completely. Learn watercolor techniques, understand the medium and pigment behavior, and much more in this course with us.
Who would benefit from this course?
This course is an introduction to watercolor painting practice for those who are new to the medium. If you are interested in building a relaxing creative hobby that can help with your creative skills, do join in.
This course will introduce you to the techniques and creative skills you need to get started.
Course curriculum:
― Introduction to watercolor
• Tools we need to get started
• Subjects that are done in watercolor
• Three types of washes: Flat, Graded, and Variegated
• A landscape with one of the washes
• Assessments and Discussion
• Assignment
― Colour theory
• Color wheel
• Color mixing
• Making greens
• Making grey and browns
• Analogous painting
― Monochrome painting
• Techniques and textures
• Brushstrokes
• Creating Values and tones
• Understanding light and shadow
• Assignment
― Floral
• Layering
• Wet in wet
• Wet in dry
• Lifting color
― Still life
• Dry brush stroke
• Washes
• Glazing
• Underpainting
― Landscape
• Washes
• Glazing
• Colour perspective
Materials:
– Watercolours Cakes or Tubes
– Watercolour paper (Has to be watercolor, not regular paper – Brustro, canson, chitrapat, or any other watercolor paper brand)
– Round brushes and flat brush (8,12 round brush and 1/2 or 1inch flat brush)
– Closed palette for tube colors OR regular palette for watercolor cakes
– 2 Water cups or bowl
– Rag cloth
– Masking tape (if you don’t have it then transparent cello tape)
Age: Adults and Children above 10 years
Classes will commence from Tuesday, 4th April & Classes are conducted on Tuesday & Thursday(for 6 weeks)
Time: 4.30 pm to 5.30 pm (IST)
(Ping us if you are keen to attend on alternate days/timings)
Fee: Rs 3600 per person for 12 classes
Venue: Online classes on Zoom
For registrations and details, WhatsApp on 9900052747
About Bloom and Grow:
Bloom & Grow facilitates artist-led online and offline workshops for individuals and for corporates across the world.
To stay updated with the upcoming sessions, join WhatsApp group with the link https://chat.whatsapp.com/HKDsGqJSWGgBtDENOcMVea
by Shravani | Aug 11, 2020
Natural Soap Making – Online Two-day Workshop for Beginners
Learn the art of Making Handmade Soaps which are SLS, SLES, Paraben free with expert soaper Neetha Bhoopalam.
Theory includes –
1. Basics of Cold process Soap making and introduction to Melt and Pour Soaps.
2. Info on Carrier oils for cold process soaps
3. Cold Process Soap Formulation Techniques using Soap Calculator
4. Cold process Formulation Techniques based on the oil Properties and Lye handling.
5. Types of Fragrances – Natural and Synthetic.
6. Essential oil Properties Chart
7. Info on Tools and equipment
8. Six Tested Recipes – 3 Cold Process and 3 Melt and Pour soaps
Demonstration
1. Cold Process 1 kg Soap Batch Recipe demonstration with layer design techniques
2. Adding Natural and Synthetic Colorants to soap
3. Adding Textures to Soaps
4. De-moulding techniques, and Cutting
5. Basic Packing info
6. Melt and Pour Relaxing Floral Soap making
7. Melt and Pour Neem and Charcoal Skin Detox Soap
8. Melt and Pour Coffee Scrub soap
Day and Date: Sat, 29th & Sun, 30th August 2020
Time: 5 pm – 7 pm (IST)
Cost: Rs 4000 per person
Venue: Online Session on Zoom
This is a demonstration based workshop. All details and links on where to purchase materials will be supplied post registration.
Register on gpay with 9900052747.
Note: Once you are registered, participants will be added to whatsapp group, for ease in communication with the steps to join in.
About Bloom and Grow:
Bloom & Grow facilitates artist-led virtual and offline workshops for individuals and for corporates across the world.
To stay updated with the upcoming sessions, join WhatsApp group with the link https://chat.whatsapp.com/FLjH1Wy9xsWHuy7wiEJgw9
by Shravani | Jul 1, 2020
Faux Blue Pottery – Live Online Session
Blue pottery in India is widely recognized as a traditional craft of Jaipur, though it is Turko-Persian in origin. The name “blue pottery” comes from the eye catching blue dye used to colour the pottery.
Learn to make faux blue pottery designs on a plate as a lovely home decor piece.
Materials required:-
– Terracotta plate / any ceramic plate
(The plate will need to be primed one coat of white acrylic paint on the surface and dried before we begin the session)
– Acrylic colours – Prussian blue, white, orange ,golden yellow, and a waterproof black pen or black paint .
– Brush no. – 2, 3
– Palette
– Water bowl
– A rough rag
– Pencil
– Eraser
About the Artist:
Pooja Banka creates modern and contemporary art forms while maintaining the love for Indian folk art over 15 years. She is a certified fine artist from Pune and a certified artist from Pidilite. Her page on insta is__@hunnaraunlimited.
Age : Adults and Children above 8 years.
Date: 13th July 2020
Day: Monday
Time: 5 pm to 7 pm (IST)
Venue: Online Session on Zoom
Fee: Rs 600 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
Payment link: https://rzp.io/l/fB7s44W
Note: Once you register you will be added to a whatsapp group for ease of communication with the steps to join in.
About Bloom and Grow:
Bloom & Grow facilitates artist-led art & craft workshops in studios and also, conducts art based corporate workshops across India.
To stay updated with the upcoming sessions, join WhatsApp group with the link https://chat.whatsapp.com/HKDsGqJSWGgBtDENOcMVea
by Sukanya | Jun 4, 2020
Watercolor Painting Live Online Classes – For Beginners and Intermediates with Me With A Pencil
Bloom and Grow is conducting watercolor classes comprising 12 sessions over 6 weeks. Classes will be held twice a week.
Course curriculum:
1. Introduction to watercolour + understanding your palette + Materials
2. Basic Techniques
– Wet on wet
– wet on dry
– blending
– blending + pulling out
3. Brush strokes: 5 types
4. Washes + some basic tricks + understanding light & dark.
5. Basics of florals
– Florals part – II
– Floral part – III
– Composition of florals
6. Basics of drawing
7. Perspective
8. Landscape with basic use of washes or multiple layers of washes
9. Negative painting landscape
10. Details painting/object painting
11. Animal painting
12. Architectural painting
13. Multilayered Landscape
Materials:
– Watercolours
– Watercolour paper
– Round brushes and flat brush
– Mixing pallets
– 2 Water cups or bowl
– Rag cloth
– Masking tape(if you dont have it then transparent cello tape)
Age: Adults and Children above 10 years
Date: Classes will start on Wednesday, 17th June and end on Friday, 24th July.
Days: Wednesdays and Fridays
Time: 4 pm to 5 pm (IST)
Fee: Rs 4000 per person
Venue: Online classes on Zoom
For any other day/ timings and registration details WhatsApp us on 9900052747
Note: Once you register you will be added to a whatsapp group for ease of communication with the steps to join in.
About Bloom and Grow:
Bloom & Grow facilitates artist-led art & craft workshops in studios and also, conducts art based corporate workshops across India.
To stay updated with the upcoming sessions, join WhatsApp group with the link https://chat.whatsapp.com/HKDsGqJSWGgBtDENOcMVea
by Sukanya | May 28, 2020
Faux Blue Pottery – Live Online Session
Blue pottery in India is widely recognized as a traditional craft of Jaipur, though it is Turko-Persian in origin. The name “blue pottery” comes from the eye catching blue dye used to colour the pottery.
Learn to make faux blue pottery designs on a plate as a lovely home decor piece.
Materials required:-
– Terracotta plate / any ceramic plate
(The plate will need to be primed one coat of white acrylic paint on the surface and dried before we begin the session)
– Acrylic colours – Prussian blue, white, orange ,golden yellow, and a waterproof black pen or black paint .
– Brush no. – 2, 3
– Palette
– Water bowl
– A rough rag
– Pencil
– Eraser
About the Artist:
Pooja Banka creates modern and contemporary art forms while maintaining the love for Indian folk art over 15 years. She is a certified fine artist from Pune and a certified artist from Pidilite. Her page on insta is__@hunnaraunlimited.
Age : Adults and Children above 8 years.
Date: 6th June 2020
Day: Saturday
Time: 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm (IST)
Venue: Online Session on Zoom
Fee: Rs 500 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
Payment link: https://rzp.io/l/6atWYSe
Note: Once you register you will be added to a whatsapp group for ease of communication with the steps to join in.
About Bloom and Grow:
Bloom & Grow facilitates artist-led art & craft workshops in studios and also, conducts art based corporate workshops across India.
To stay updated with the upcoming sessions, join WhatsApp group with the link https://chat.whatsapp.com/HKDsGqJSWGgBtDENOcMVea
by Sukanya | May 23, 2020
Baking Workshop with Exotic Musings – Live Online Session
This online session in Baking will give you the much needed head-start into the world of Baking by teaching you the do’s and don’ts of this much loved culinary skill. This will be a guided session in Baking with Sheenu guiding participants from her own kitchen.
You will learn to make the following recipes:
1. Banana walnut loaf cake
2. Whole wheat chocolate chip cookies
3. Foccacia bread
4. Yogurt Mango Tart
Participants can choose to do it along or watch as Sheenu bakes. Participants can later choose to make the recipe at home.
An early registration will help the participant buy the ingredients early, for a ‘Bake along’ with Sheenu.
Date: 31st May, 2020
Day: Sunday
Time: 3 pm to 5 pm (IST)
Venue: Online session on zoom
Fee: Rs 800 per person (Inclusive of GST and convenience charges)
Payment link: https://rzp.io/l/6PiwTK9
Note: Once you register you will be added to a whatsapp group for ease of communication with the steps to join in. This will also be used to handhold participants and clarify doubts if any at a later stage when baking.
About Bloom and Grow:
Bloom & Grow facilitates artist-led art & craft workshops in studios and also, conducts art based corporate workshops across India.
To stay updated with the upcoming sessions, join WhatsApp group with the link https://chat.whatsapp.com/HKDsGqJSWGgBtDENOcMVea
