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Plants, Foliage & Greenery

A helpful place to go if leaves, trees, moss, flowers, or garden details start to feel overwhelming. These lessons will help you simplify plant shapes, build layers of greenery, and create foliage that feels full, natural, and painterly.

Best Place to Start

If leaves, trees, moss, or garden details feel overwhelming, start here. These lessons will help you simplify plant shapes and build confidence with greenery.

The Silhouette Garden

A growing collection of plant silhouettes to help you build brush confidence, master shape, and gather endless inspiration for your landscapes!

Mini Garden

Join me in this live class replay where I walk you through three different exercises for developing your plant shapes with added depth and illumination.

Brush Trials

This is a quick and easy exercise to help you figure out which of your brushes will work best for painting plant shapes!

Go Deeper

Explore more focused lessons on foliage, wildflowers, trees, moss, plant shapes, brush marks, and building layers of greenery without getting lost in every tiny detail.

Leafy Shapes

Adding interesting plant shapes is a huge part of painting landscapes. In this video we'll go through a page of different shapes using a single round brush.

Easy Waterfall Plants

This is a fun exercise for creating a waterfall that is full of details, but really only consists of groups of simple shapes!

Adding Sparkling Details

Capture bright planty details in dark areas using simple shapes and vibrant colors.

Plant Vignette

Let's take a look at one of my favorite ways to practise plant shapes as we paint a vignette together!

Essential Techniques

In this live class we'll go through some of the essential techniques that crop up often as we paint.

Mix & Match

In this class we'll combine several techniques or elements from different tutorials to create a new scene.

Bluebell Wood

Join me as we paint this striking scene full of bluebells and warm sunshine.

Hot Press Paper & Winsor Green

In this class we'll compare a hot press version of my little Etchr sketchbook with the cold press version that I normally use.

Painting for Fun

In this class I'll walk you through my creative process when I sit down to paint for fun!

The Mossy Woods

In this live class i will show you how I take inspiration from a photograph and turn it into a magical scene!

Sunset Lake

In this live class we'll be painting this gorgeous lake at sunset. With plenty of greens, purples and shades of orange, this is one of my favorite color palettes to use for landscapes!

Inspired by Ghibli

In this live class I'll show you how to take a photograph of a real place and turn it into something that looks like it belongs in a Studio Ghibli movie.

Deep in the Woods

In this class we'll take a reference photo and give it a little twist of magic to create a unique scene.

A Country Walk

Capture depth and charming countryside details in this tutorial.

Forest Shadows

This tutorial shows how you can break down an awesome lighting effect into more simple steps.

Neon Forest

For this live class we'll be using the color palette from Neon Dream to make a new, unique painting!

Harvest Moon

In this live class we'll paint a luminous harvest moon!

Autumn Rainbow

In this live class we'll take a look at how to paint a soft rainbow in a gray autumn sky!

A Ghibli-Inspired Night

In this live class we'll be painting this pretty night landscape in the style of a Studio Ghibli scene, adding a glowing plant and some floating fireflies.