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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.

Find all links to materials on page 3 & 4

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.

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 colored pencils 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.

Find all links to materials on page 3 & 4

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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