Expressive Brushwork in Watercolor

Every brush has a unique personality. Once you understand how it responds to water, pressure, and movement, you'll be able to paint with greater confidence and far fewer unnecessary strokes.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Creating Form: Flowers

Understanding Petals, Leaves & Stems • Curving a Petal • Water Control • Value • Highlights • Brush Control

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Finding Form in Watercolor

Learn how simple shapes, subtle values, and thoughtful brushwork can transform your watercolor paintings.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Transparent Sea Glass

Master Transparency, Light & Color. Learn how to paint beautiful sea glass (also known as beach glass) using watercolor. You'll discover how to create luminous transparency, soft frosted surfaces, convincing shadows, and beautiful compositions inspired by treasures found along the shore.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Trees & Light

Discover how one simple group of trees can become an endless variety of paintings through changing light, color, and atmosphere. In this two-hour workshop, you'll discover how simple changes in value, color, and edges can completely transform the mood of a painting. Rather than focusing on every branch and leaf, you'll learn to simplify tree shapes into expressive masses while using light to create atmosphere, depth, and emotion.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Shape, Light & Value

Learn how to transform simple shapes into convincing watercolor paintings by understanding light, value, and form. Through a series of guided exercises—including a box, a rounded pot, an adobe building, and a final architectural demonstration—you'll build the confidence to create depth, dimension, and stronger compositions in any subject.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Clouds & Atmosphere

Paint Light, Mood & Expressive Skies in Watercolor Technique Workshop. Painting Light, Form & Soft Edges Stop Painting Every Cloud. Start Painting the Light.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Calm Landscapes in Watercolor

Using Water to Create Light, Atmosphere & Reflection. Discover how understanding the use of water can transform your watercolor paintings.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

The Power of White

Discover how preserving the white of the paper transforms your watercolor paintings with greater luminosity, atmosphere, depth, and beautiful light. Includes the live workshop, lifetime replay access, downloadable workbook, reference materials, and line drawing.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Simplify & Flow

Simplifying Complex Subjects with Shape, Water & Value A Live Watercolor Workshop. What happens when you stop trying to paint every shape you see?

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

White Gardenia – A Nature’s Abstraction Workshop Replay

This workshop focuses on beginning a gardenia painting with clarity and intention. The emphasis is on subtle values, water control, soft edges, and knowing when to pause rather than push. The gardenia appears simple, but its quiet whites and layered petals invite a slower, more thoughtful approach. This workshop is designed to help you start painting confidently and understand how to continue without overworking it.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

A Magnolia in Light: A Watercolor Workshop Replay

This workshop is an invitation to approach your painting with clarity, patience, and a lighter touch—so what you create feels natural, luminous, and alive. You’ll learn how to create a painting that feels soft, luminous, and full of life—by understanding how light and shadow truly work in watercolor, and how to continue with confidence without overworking your painting.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

The Magic of White Flowers, Negative Painting and Center Stamens Workshop

Discover the quiet elegance and luminous strength of white flowers. In this watercolor workshop, we’ll explore how softness, light, and restraint can create breathtaking beauty. Learn how to develop depth through value, use subtle color shifts to shape petals, and let the white of your paper become part of the painting’s voice.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Soft and Delicate Flowers 6-week course

March 24 - May 5, Designed for beginner to intermediate painters who want to build confidence and learn to create soft, expressive floral paintings.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Big Skies & Atmospheric Light, Workshop Replay

Join us in a focused replay, an immersive introduction to large washes and atmospheric flow.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Big Skies at Sunset Workshop Replay

Join us for a live, focused workshop—an immersive introduction to large washes and atmospheric flow.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Prickly Pear Cactus - Workshop Course, Plus Live Replay

Paing along with the workshop replay or take your time with the video lessons. Focus on shape, color, and flow. Learn to paint intuitively—without masking—while creating a calm, confident, and complete painting. Lifetime access.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Natures Abstraction - Plumeria Workshop

Explore flowers beyond representation and into abstraction—where form, movement, and emotion take center stage. Lifetime access.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Desert Flowers & Landscape – Workshop Replay

Learn to combine elements of landscape design with desert flowers, in which light, space, and movement guide the painting rather than detail.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Atmospheric Landscapes 6-week course

Feb. 3 – March 17 One of my most popular courses, this interactive experience is designed to help you build skills and confidence quickly. Includes lifetime access to all course content.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Natures Abstraction - Yellow Rose and Calla Lily 6-week course

Feb. 3 - March 17, Join us as we explore flowers beyond representation and into abstraction—where form, movement, and emotion take center stage.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Light & Shadow: Fearless Flowers, 6-week Masterclass

March 24 - May 5, A 6-Week Interactive Watercolor Masterclass for students with some watercolor experience

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Creative Reconstruction: Floral Paintings with Expression

A Thoughtful Approach to Reworking Floral Paintings with Clarity & Confidence

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Barns & Ranches -Workshop Replay

Paint 5 different barns, learn to keep shapes simple, and work with your brushstrokes.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Snow & Winter Light 2025

Paint along with the workshop replay or take your time with the step-by-step lessons. Lifetime access

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Expressive Landscapes - Independent Study

Includes 18 different painting lessons. Elevate your artistic abilities and truly capture the heart of the landscape.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Ethereal Landscapes, Plus Workshop Replay

Includes 5 different painting lessons. Step into a dreamlike world where light dances, mist lingers, and imagination takes the lead.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Wild Iris Workshop Replay

All levels. In this immersive watercolor course, you'll learn how to capture the delicate beauty of the Douglas Iris—an exquisite flower known for its vibrant colors and intricate structure. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist, this class will guide you step-by-step through the process of painting this stunning bloom using a combination of soft washes and fine details.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Wild Iris, Complete course

Intermediate-Advanced. In this immersive watercolor course, you'll learn how to capture the delicate beauty of the Douglas Iris—an exquisite flower known for its vibrant colors and intricate structure. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist, this class will guide you step-by-step through the process of painting this stunning bloom using a combination of soft washes and fine details.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

The Unique Beauty of Flowers Sept. 23 - Nov. 4 Starflower Spray

Dive into the fascinating world of unusual flowers that unconventionally capture the essence of botanical beauty. Focus on techniques emphasizing the positive and negative painting process and allowing color to emerge naturally.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Set Sail with Color, Workshop Replay Paint-at-your-own-pace

Includes 5 different lessons. Paint moody paintings that evoke emotion in watercolor, all levels, workshop includes 3 painting options to explore.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Simple Figures, Workshop Replay

Capture the mood, character, and narrative of a story using simple figure studies.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Expressive Figures in Watercolor

Discover the power of storytelling through expressive figure painting in watercolor. This course is designed to guide you through the process of capturing mood, character, and narrative using simple yet evocative figure studies.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Hollyhocks, Step-by-syep lessons and Workshop Replay

Learn how to paint these delicate flowers in watercolor.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Casablanca Lily Workshop Replay

Learn how to sculpt the petals and paint a white lily

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

New! Single Sally Holmes Rose Workshop Replay!

Includes step-by-step lessons, workbook, and line drawings; no real drawing skills required.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Japanese Quince Step-by-step lessons and Workshop Replay

Learn how to change the composition and add a background.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Light & Delicate Sally Holmes Rose Workshop Replay

Watercolor Made Easy

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Happy Flowers Workshop Replay and Step-by-step lessons

Happy Flowers is a cheerful white daisy project designed to help you master painting whites and creating soft, luminous backgrounds. Through simple step-by-step instruction, you’ll learn how to build form, create glow, and make a white flower stand out beautifully without ever reaching for white paint. A perfect project for beginners and anyone wanting to strengthen their confidence with values, edges, and gentle color transitions.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Watercolor Wonders: Painting the Pink Moth Orchid

In this immersive watercolor course, you'll learn how to capture the delicate beauty of the Pink Moth Orchid—an exquisite flower known for its graceful petals and subtle hues. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist, this class will guide you step-by-step through the process of painting this elegant bloom using a combination of soft washes and fine details.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

New! Red Japanese Quince Workshop

Relax and enjoy painting the unique blossom of the Japanese quince. Learn when to leave the reference photo behind to be creative and shift the color to get the results that you want. Paint along during the workshop or later with the recording. Use the provided reference photos, or be creative using your own. No drawing skills are required to enjoy the workshop.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

The Joy of Painting Loose Flowers, Paint at your own pace

Relax and unwind and learn to paint flowers in a looser style easily, includes 11 different paintings.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Moments in Time Chairs, Workshop Replay

Online Course + Workshop Replay Discover how painting a simple garden chair can evoke a sense of stillness, reflection, and connection to the world around us. In this online course, you'll learn to capture a quiet and meaningful moment of resting in the garden.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Beach Chairs in Watercolor - Workshop Replay

Capture the charm of a summer day at the coast in your own home studio. In this fun and relaxing watercolor workshop. We'll paint a pair of inviting beach chairs overlooking the shoreline and explore the rich colors and glowing light of a beach sunset.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Expressive Waterfalls Workshop Replay

Includes 5 different waterfalls. Explore a variety of different waterfalls and learn how you can apply the techniques to your paintings.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Fall Colors - Aspen, Workshop replay

Explore the wonderful world of fall colors. Work on three different paintings while allowing your creativity to soar.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Home is Where the Heart is

Create a Scene That Feels Like Home Imagine roses climbing a sun-kissed fence, each bloom holding a quiet memory, each breeze carrying a familiar warmth. Whether you're new to watercolor or already love to paint, this workshop invites you to slow down, pick up your brush, and let your heart lead the way—one gentle step at a time.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Field of Daisies Workshop

Fun and Easy Landscapes

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Fun and Easy Flowers, Workshop Replay

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Pumpkin and Sunflower, Workshop

Fun and Easy. Keep watercolor simple and paint a pumpkin with a sunflower. Learn water-to-color ratios and how to change and add to your composition to create a successful painting.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Loose and Easy Pears

Fun and Easy Watercolor Includes multiple designs.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Monarch Garden - Independent Learning

Explore the world of Monarch butterflies and learn the basic technique - includes the basic lesson only

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Daffodils - Workshop Replay

Paint Daffodils, a cornerstone to any garden. Their cheerful presence can positively impact you, the artist or the viewer.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor

Pink Starflower Workshop Replay

Learn to paint a dynamic flower with an intricate center using negative painting and explore large shadows while keeping color harmonious.

Course•By Birgit O'Connor