This course is designed to help you loosen your painting style while exploring light, shadow, and intuitive color blending. Through simple, relaxed steps, you’ll build confidence in your technique and create a piece that tells a story—a timeless keepsake filled with warmth and character.

Includes: Bonus Painting: Cool Shadows & Quiet Spaces

As a special addition to the Garden Chair workshop, this bonus project invites you to explore a more atmospheric and expressive approach. Set against a cool blue backdrop, it focuses on how shadows create depth, emotion, and a sense of peaceful solitude.

You’ll discover how to use loose, suggestive brushwork to imply detail rather than define it—letting light dance across surfaces and allowing color to flow more intuitively. Soft layers, gentle contrasts, and relaxed edges encourage creative freedom while reinforcing key principles in composition and mood.

Whether you paint along step-by-step or use it as inspiration for your own interpretation, this bonus project offers a refreshing shift in tone—a cooling, quiet counterbalance to the warmth of the main lesson. It’s a beautiful opportunity to stretch your creativity and add a second meaningful piece to your collection.

About Birgit O'Connor

Birgit O’Connor is a Master artist and a signature member of M-NWWS, (Northwest Watercolor Society) M-CWA, (California Watercolor Association) M-LWS (Louisiana Watercolor Society).

She is an award winning artist, judge, juror and author of the top-selling North Light books “ Watercolor in Motion”"Paint Watercolor Flowers" and “Watercolor Essentials” along with being included in three other titles. Known for her original paintings and inspirational teaching style.

Publications include the New York Times, SF Gate,Artist Magazine and Watercolor Artist Magazine INK in New Mexico, in the United States, Dobry Zank, (Poland) "L'Art de l'Aquarelle (France). Her memberships include Cambridge Who’s Who, Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Women.