Get your brushes ready to embark on this enchanting artistic adventure as we paint dreamy, Impressionistic hydrangea gardens!

Imagine yourself immersed in the delicate blossoms and the sun-dappled scenes of your imagination as they come alive on canvas. I will teach you my techniques! All it takes is knowing my key to correctly building layers, what color schemes work best to make your paintings come alive, and what tools are used. Add in a little practice, and you can be on your way to creating breathtaking paintings like I do --- paintings you will be proud to display in your home or give as a gift.

Course curriculum

    1. Supplies List for the Course

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    2. Video Sampler of "Hydrangea Gardens"

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    3. How to Use This Course

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    4. Setting Up Your Work Station

    5. Using The Color Wheel

    6. Bonus: If You've Never Used A Silicone Wedge

    7. Understanding the Color Wheel & Color Schemes

    1. Blue Hydrangea Demo Video 1: Choosing the Color Palette

    2. Blue Hydrangea Demo Video 2: Blocking in my Hydrangea & Greenery

    3. Blue Hydrangea Demo Video 3: Adding the Shadow Pattern

    4. New LessonBlue Hydrangea Demo Video 4: Adding in a Beautiful Background

    5. Blue Hydrangea Demo Video 5: The Final Touches

    1. White Hydrangea Demo Video 1: A Little Back Story

    2. White Hydrangea Demo Video 2: Choosing the Color Palette

    3. White Hydrangea Demo Video 3: Blocking in My Blossom

    4. White Hydrangea Demo Video 4: Adding Greenery

    5. White Hydrangea Demo Video 5: Adding Petals in the Light

    6. White Hydrangea Demo Video 6: Adding Deeper Values

    7. White Hydrangea Demo Video 7: Continuing the Background Layers

    8. White Hydrangea Demo Video 8: Finishing Up with Some Gorgeous Blues!

    1. Purple Hydrangea Demo Video 1: Choosing the Color Scheme

    2. Purple Hydrangea Demo Video 2: Setting Up my Color Palette and Adding the Underpainting

    3. Purple Hydrangea Demo Video 3: Sketching my Composition and Mixing my Colors

    4. Purple Hydrangea Demo Video 4: Blocking in the Hydrangea Blossoms

    5. Purple Hydrangea Demo Video 5: Defining the Background Shapes

    6. Purple Hydrangea Demo Video 6: Adding the Shadow Patterns

    7. Purple Hydrangea Demo Video 7: Rendering the Blue Hydrangeas

    8. Purple Hydrangea Demo Video 8: Adding the Pattern of Light Values

    9. Purple Hydrangea Demo Video 9: Rendering the Purple Hydrangeas

    10. Purple Hydrangea Demo Video 10: Adding Colorful Details

    11. Purple Hydrangea Demo Video 11: Toning the Painting with Glazes

    12. Purple Hydrangea Demo Video 12: Adding Highlights

    13. Purple Hydrangea Demo Video 13: Let's Add Some Pinks

    14. Purple Hydrangea Demo Video 14: Adding the Yellow Petals

    15. Purple Hydrangea Demo Video 15: One More Round of Highlights

    16. Purple Hydrangea Demo Video 16: That's a Wrap!

    1. Varnish Your Masterpiece

    2. Varnishing Demo

About this course

  • $99.00
  • 38 lessons
  • 3 hours of video content

See What My Students Are Saying:

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Hydrangea Gardens Course

Dianne Custer

This course is absolutely wonderful :) Kathleen you are an Amazing teacher, and you explain everything you are doing perfectly. You have showed me exactly ...

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This course is absolutely wonderful :) Kathleen you are an Amazing teacher, and you explain everything you are doing perfectly. You have showed me exactly what to do to bring these Gorgeous Hydrangeas to life ~ I am so happy I bought your course. I watched all the videos and soon I will start to paint. My Princeton Catalyst Silicone Wedge will be here soon, and then I can try painting these Gorgeous Hydrangeas. Thank you so much ~ Happy Painting :)

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Wonderful Class!

kathy foley

Kathleen is a great teacher, the class is fun and thoughtfully put together! She teaches several techniques and is easy to follow along. I highly recommend!!

Kathleen is a great teacher, the class is fun and thoughtfully put together! She teaches several techniques and is easy to follow along. I highly recommend!!

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I am obsessed

Monica Scaramella

I have been watching your videos over and over and I finally bought your course. I can't wait to get started. Your paintings are so beautiful. I have been...

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I have been watching your videos over and over and I finally bought your course. I can't wait to get started. Your paintings are so beautiful. I have been looking for a style of painting for years and I found you. I watched the whole course and now I have to get a few more colors and I am so excited. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!

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Fun, interesting hydrangea course

Becky Kluth

I've really enjoyed doing this course and painting in a looser way with the wedge. It has helped me work on depth and backgrounds and think about colour comb...

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I've really enjoyed doing this course and painting in a looser way with the wedge. It has helped me work on depth and backgrounds and think about colour combinations and composition. Thank you!

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Kathleen's Hydrangeas Gardens Course

Karen Grim

Throughout the pre-recorded online classes, we learned to use several key acrylic painting tools - a filbert brush, a silicone wedge, a palette knife and eve...

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Throughout the pre-recorded online classes, we learned to use several key acrylic painting tools - a filbert brush, a silicone wedge, a palette knife and even our fingers for fun blending. Kathleen demonstrated how to capture the lush, vibrant colors and soft rounded shapes of hydrangeas. Her clear explanations and step-by-step guidance allowed me to successfully paint a hydrangea painting that I'm am very pleased with. Kathleen encourages creativity and individual expression. I really enjoyed learning and painting with this course. I think it's her best online course yet!

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superbe !

maud willems

Ce cours est magnifique je l'adore !

Ce cours est magnifique je l'adore !

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Painting with Kathleen is a joy!

Cody Myers

I always watch Kathleen's courses before I actually start painting with her. I like to relax and just enjoy it first. They are that good. A great way to spen...

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I always watch Kathleen's courses before I actually start painting with her. I like to relax and just enjoy it first. They are that good. A great way to spend the evening. The course is step by step and you can go at your own pace I appreciate that she encourages her students to use some of their own flare to the painting as well.

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Blue Hydrangea

Loan Shay

Love it so far! Thank you Kathleen for another fantastic course xx

Love it so far! Thank you Kathleen for another fantastic course xx

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Beautiful

Lejla Basic-Hill

I love the way Kathleen's courses are prepared and her nice and calm way of explaining. She did a great job with the hydrangea course. It's a pleasure to p...

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I love the way Kathleen's courses are prepared and her nice and calm way of explaining. She did a great job with the hydrangea course. It's a pleasure to participate and learn.

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Awesome

Louise Hodge

I found the course to be well organised and presented. I am confident I will be able to paint the hydrangeas as shown.

I found the course to be well organised and presented. I am confident I will be able to paint the hydrangeas as shown.

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Learned so Much!

Debbie Auclair

As an intuitive artist I love trying out different tools and techniques, so it was fun using the wedge and shaper tools and experimenting. She explains color...

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As an intuitive artist I love trying out different tools and techniques, so it was fun using the wedge and shaper tools and experimenting. She explains color theory and color values very well, which is something I struggle with. Very good value for what I learned!

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glimmer gardens

Vivian Castelli

very well

very well

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Here's What My Course Will Offer You:

  • It begins with a BONUS video on the basics of how to use a Princeton brand Catalyst silicone wedge, like you've seen me use to create my gorgeous floral paintings. This will help you get started if you've never used one before.

  • 3 different full-length video demos showing my creative process: starting with choosing my color palette using a Color Wheel, mixing and applying paint, all of my techniques with full descriptions and evaluations of the final results. You will see me paint classic blue, white and purple hydrangea gardens.

  • Picture in Picture so you can see my reference photo from which I am working and a closer look at the tools I am using.

  • Closed Captions to make it easier to follow along so you don't miss a word.

  • 2 camera angles: 1 on my palette as I mix and 1 on my canvas as I paint.

  • FREE private Facebook group for all enrolled students to ask questions, post work and find support after you've purchased my course. You won't ever feel like you are in this alone!

  • Fun!! Really. If you think you can't paint gorgeous hydrangea gardens dappled in sunlight and shadow, think again. All it takes is my course, a little patience and PRACTICE. Once you purchase my course, take all the time you need. The course is yours to keep and use indefinitely.

  • Although this course is taught using acrylic paints and mediums, it may be adapted to an oil painting practice.

Surround Yourself with the Beauty of Your Very Own Hydrangea Gardens Today, Painted by YOU!!

You could be painting right now.

Gallery of Student Paintings from the Course

These students are no different than you. But they learned my secrets to painting beautiful hydrangea gardens, professional-looking enough to display on the walls in their homes. Some have even been commissioned to paint hydrangeas for collectors after taking my course. This could be YOU as well.

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Your Instructor

Kathleen Rietz

Award winning artist Kathleen Rietz is a lifelong artist with a passion for art instruction, both in the classroom and online. Her formal art training was earned at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, IL. She went on to a 30 year career in both commercial and fine art. She began creating online art courses in 2020 during the pandemic to spread the joy of art to Instagram and Facebook followers around the world. Kathleen's fine art floral and abstract paintings are collected internationally. She has won numerous awards, and has been featured in American Artist Magazine and Create Magazine among others.