Learn to paint expressive, luminous floral artworks in this hands-on oil painting intensive. Across five structured days, you’ll build skills step-by-step—from mixing a limited palette and understanding composition, to creating studies, blocking in colour, and developing a resolved final piece.
You’ll begin with single-flower studies to explore colour, value, lighting, and wet-on-wet techniques. As the week progresses, you’ll assemble and paint your own bouquet, working from bold, high-chroma block-ins through to refined edges, subtle shifts, and thoughtful detail. Daily demos and guided practice help you understand how to simplify forms, control paint thickness, and keep your work fresh and energetic.
By the end of the workshop, you’ll have completed a finished floral painting and gained a clear, repeatable process you can use in your own studio practice.
Josephine Wesley is a representational artist based in Albany. She studied traditional art for 3 years at Julian Ashton Art School (Sydney), in the late 1990’s, focusing on portraiture and still life painting. Since restarting her art journey in 2019, she has been included in several national and local art prizes and exhibitions, for portraiture, still life and landscape painting.
Josephine enjoys sharing the knowledge she has gained over the years and has taught several workshops locally, both privately and with the Vancouver Arts Centre. She paints most genres, in oil and gouache, and is a strong advocate for painting and drawing from life whenever possible.