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.

Check out Yelena Lamm's website!

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:

•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.