Hi there! 🎨 You're in the right place if you're curious about turning your hand-painted florals into a seamless repeating pattern. This hub gives you a sneak peek of what the full course has to offer, along with an outline of each lesson so you can see how you'll paint, layer, and build your pattern.

Inside the full course, you'll learn how to:

  • Sketch and paint a loose, dreamy floral bunch with brush & paper
  • Build depth into your painting so the pattern repeat truly disappears
  • Layer in mixed media for richness and texture, without losing that loose feel
  • Discover my easiest workflow for turning your painting into a repeating pattern in Photoshop

Each lesson is designed to guide you step by step, with clear instructions and practice pages, so you can confidently turn your florals into a pattern ready for fabric, wallpaper, stationery, and more.

Take a look at the lesson outline below, and when you're ready to unlock the full course, click the link below to dive in and get access to all the lessons, resources, and bonus materials.

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A watercolor paint palette with multiple colors, several sketch and painted paper sheets on a wooden table, and paintbrushes nearby.

Lesson 1

SKETCHING AND THE UNDERPAINTING

This is where every piece starts for me, and it's my favorite part. Before I ever pick up a paintbrush, I loosen up with doodled florals, no pressure, just getting flowers out of my head and onto paper so I can see how they want to sit next to each other. In this lesson, I'll show you the supplies I reach for, how I doodle individual flowers and group them into bunches, and how I use a favorite doodle as the foundation for a loose underpainting, the layer everything else in this course builds on top of.

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A watercolor painting of a colorful floral bouquet on white paper, displayed on a brown cork desk alongside a watercolor palette with pink, yellow, green, and blue paints.

Lesson 2

PAINTED DETAILS AND BUILDING DEPTH

With our underpainting in place, it's time to bring the floral bunch to life. In this lesson, I'll show you how I layer in painted detail, petal by petal, leaf by leaf, to build a balanced arrangement, and we'll talk about depth, the real secret to a pattern that doesn't feel repetitive once it's tiled. If there's one bright, high contrast spot in your painting, that's exactly where the eye will land every time the pattern repeats, so I'll show you how I distribute light, shadow, and saturation across the whole bunch so the repeat truly disappears.

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A watercolor floral art print featuring a dense arrangement of pastel flowers and leaves in yellow, purple, blue, pink, green, and brown tones on a white sheet of paper.

Lesson 3

MIXED MEDIA

Once the painting is dry, I like to go back in with mixed media to add texture and dimension that watercolor alone can't quite give me. In this lesson, I'll show you my favorite supplies and walk through exactly how I layer them on top of the paint, and how I know when to stop, since pushing it too far makes the piece feel tight and overworked, fighting against the loose, dreamy quality we built in the first two lessons.

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Lesson 4

BUILDING THE REPEAT IN PHOTOSHOP

Now for the payoff. In this lesson, I'll show you how to bring your scanned or photographed floral bunch into Photoshop and turn it into a seamless repeating pattern using the easiest method I know, no complicated plugins, no advanced Photoshop knowledge required. If you can follow along with a screen share, you can do this, and by the end you'll have a finished, tileable pattern built from a painting you made completely on your own terms.

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If you have any questions do not hesistate to get in touch!