Learn to Paint Daisies with Acrylics and Mixed Media Layers and Textures – A Relaxing Step-by-step Class for Beginners
Discover how the humble daisy can spark optimism, joy, calm presence, and renewal in your art practice.
What you’ll learn
- Confidently build a rich, textured background using collage papers, gesso, and palette-knife techniques.
- Mix and layer acrylic colors—olive greens, cadmium yellow, burnt sienna, and unbleached titanium—to achieve a natural, sunlit glow.
- Stamp realistic bokeh highlights with everyday tools (glue-stick cap, lip-balm tube) for depth and atmosphere.
- Paint impasto daisy petals in single strokes and stipple vibrant centers, creating three-dimensional blooms.
Course Content
- Introduction –> 8 lectures • 46min.
Requirements
Discover how the humble daisy can spark optimism, joy, calm presence, and renewal in your art practice.
In this step-by-step mixed-media course, you’ll learn to layer texture, capture sunlit bokeh, and finish with impasto blooms that stand proud with innocence, authenticity, and resilience.
Whether you’re brand-new to painting or a seasoned creator looking for fresh inspiration, this easy daisy flower painting class will guide you through every stage of the process.
What You’ll Learn:
- Foundations of Mixed Media: Create a rich, textured background using torn book pages, modeling paste accents, and grungy palette-knife greens.
- Color Study & Mixing: Master olive greens, cadmium yellow, burnt sienna, and unbleached titanium white to achieve that warm, sunlit glow.
- Bokeh Stamping Techniques: Use everyday tools (glue-stick cap, lip-balm tube) to stamp ethereal light orbs that dance behind your daisies.
- Impasto Daisy Painting: One confident stroke per petal—build thick, tactile blooms and stipple vibrant centers for true three-dimensional presence.
- Creative Journaling: Integrate hand-written words of hope and resilience directly into your piece for added narrative depth.
- Practice Session: A dedicated demo on painting daisies in impasto on a brown paper bag—perfect for warm-up studies and playful exploration.
Journaling Prompts
- What small moment this week lifted your spirits as effortlessly as sunshine through a daisy’s petals?
- When have you lately paused and felt fully present—breathing in calm, noticing the world’s gentle details?
- Name one area of your life where you’ve felt renewed, like fresh green growth pushing through the earth.
Materials You’ll Need
Support & Adhesives
- Wood panel or heavy mixed-media paper or watercolor paper
- Matte medium or gel medium or white pva glue
Collage Elements
- Old book pages (torn into various sizes)
Paints & Tools
- Acrylic paints: olive green, dark olive, light olive, cadmium yellow, burnt sienna, unbleached titanium white
- Palette knife
- Brayer
- Round brush (size 6–8)
- Glue-stick cap & lip balm tube (for bokeh stamping)