Create captivating art infused with your unique style with Mixed Media Flower Paintings with Carrie Schmitt and Amy Jones. Carrie Schmitt will teach you to paint floral paintings while interpreting inspirational images and honing your observational skills. Learn techniques for layering, avoiding muddy colors while working wet-into-wet, using masking fluid and mark making tools. Along the way Carrie will help you move forward when you hit a creative block and show you how to bring the painting together with final details.

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In Mixed Media Flower Paintings you will find:

• Learn how to paint flowers while using inspirational images as your road map
• Create layers to build a pleasing composition
• Premier instruction from Carrie Schmitt

Learn more about Carrie Schmitt
Carrie Schmitt is an expressive floral artist and author of Painted Blossoms: Creating Expressive Flower Art with Mixed Media (North Light, 2015). She began painting in 2009 when developing a life-threatening allergy to heat. Today, she paints daily from her mountain studio outside of Seattle, Washington and teaches an online yoga inspired art course, Journey to the Self, as well as workshops. Her art is licensed for home decor and stationery with several companies, including DiaNoche Designs, Hallmark, teNeues, and Woodmansterne.

Materials List
Acrylic paing- variety of colors in both liquid and heavy body
Inspiration images- magazine covers and clippings, photographs, fabric
Mark-making tools
Paintbrushes- variety of shapes and sizes
Paper towels
Popsicle sticks
Sharpie markers
Stencils
Water jar
Wet rag
Wooden skewer sticks