Dynamic Florals with Yelena Lamm

"Dynamic Florals" with artist Yelena Lamm

Friday & Saturday, February 27 & 28, 2026.
10 AM to 4 PM.
$350, includes lunch on Saturday. Supplies needed.
Limited to 10 Students.

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Flowers, as artistic subjects, offer an infinite variety in form and color, carrying deep symbolic meanings, evoking a wide range of emotions, fostering a connection to nature, and allowing for artistic freedom in terms of interpretation and style.  

Join Yelena for an immersive and vibrant 2-day workshop focused on painting flowers from life. This dynamic course will guide you through the essential techniques of alla-prima oil painting, helping you to master your approach to composition, color harmonies and values. You will work with a limited primary palette and have an option of expanding this palette to boost your skills creating rich, cohesive artworks.  Explore your creativity and enhance your artistic abilities in this 2-day intensive.

Some experience is recommended, but beginners and first-time oil painters are welcome and encouraged to join.

Materials Needed (Click on link to shop)

• Surfaces: 2-3 stretched canvases, canvas boards or panels, recommended size between 8"x10" and 12"x16".
• Brushes: Natural or Synthetic Flat sizes 4-10; Fan (1.5-2”, optional).
• Palette: Minimum 11”x14” palette for oil paints, wood, glass, or plastic, disposable paper palettes acceptable. 
• Medium: ODORLESS ONLY. Gamsol, linseed oil OK.
• Small sketch book, pencil, for notes and thumbnails 
• Oil paints: Flowers are colorful subjects indeed. I realized that if I start naming all the pigments that could be used for the workshop, the list would go on and on. I came up with a limited palette which is fun to work with and allows for a full range of bright chromatic colors. It includes:
  • Quinacridone Rose
  • Phthalo Turquoise
  • Cadmium Yellow Lemon
  • Transparent Oxide Red
  • Cobalt Blue
  • Titanium White
• Additional colors I like, all of these are optional:
  • Vermilion
  • Cadmium Yellow
  • Chinese Orange
  • Viridian
  • Green Gold
  • Radiant Turquoise (Gamblin)
  • Radiant Green (Gamblin)
  • Amethyst or any nice purple or violet
• Bring your favorite bright pinks, oranges, yellows, purples — or stay within a limited palette.