A Year of Flowers - Joy of Painting 2026

Joy of Painting 2026 — A Year of Flowers is a full year of mixed-media painting inspired by the language, beauty, and emotion of FLOWERS. Each month, you’ll dive into a new flower and learn how to capture its spirit from every angle, use it as a design tool, paint if from life, and more! CLASS BEGINS JANUARY 1, 2026.  Reserve your spot. Awesome bonus classes included, too!

My goal this year is to help you build deep floral fluency so you can paint flowers confidently, intuitively, and from memory and life. Whether you’re sketching in your journal, creating a large canvas, or adding florals to a portrait, you’ll finally understand how flowers work — and how to make them sing in your art.

🌸 What You’ll Learn Each Month

For each Flower-of-the-Month, I’ll teach you:

• How to draw the flower’s structure from at least three main angles

• How to paint the flower realistically from life

• How to paint the flower from memory using my repeatable painting pathways 

• How to turn the flower into a compositional element using shape, rhythm, color, contrast, and movement

• How to stylize the flower in your own expressive voice

• How to use the flower in mixed-media layers and larger works
  

• Class also includes reference photos, downloads, and practice exercises to help you deepen your floral mastery.

🌻 Your 12 Flowers for 2026

• January — Daisy

• February — Aster

• March — Peony

• April — Tulip

• May — Zinnia

• June — Rose

• July — Poppy

• August — Sunflower

• September — Anemone

• October — Marigold

• November — Chrysanthemum

• December — Iris

A whole botanical universe awaits you.

🎁 Special Bonuses 

When you join at the annual price, you’ll receive three magical bonuses:

1. “Painting an Autumn Muse” — Exclusive Flower-Crown Portrait Tutorial FREE (A $165 value)

Paint a stunning mixed-media portrait adorned with sunflowers, zinnias, peonies, and a magical flower crown.
This project brings everything you've learned about flowers together in one expressive, imperfect-beautiful portrait.

2. Color Master Class — FREE (a $195+ value!)

Transform your art with color.
This deep dive covers everything you wish you learned in art school — color harmony, mixing, temperature, saturation, value, expressive palettes, and four full painting projects that take your work from boring to WOW. With 4 additional classes inside!!!\

3. Two Foundational Classes in Collage Fodder + Mixed Media

Build your stash of handmade collage, textures, and painted papers — tools you’ll use again and again throughout the year. FREE - (A $170 Value)

🌿 Community + Mentoring

You’ll also get access to our warm, enthusiastic private Joy of Painting Facebook group, where I’ll be mentoring you throughout the year, cheering you on, and helping you push your creative boundaries with gentle encouragement and joy.

💛 Is This Course for You?

Joy of Painting 2026 is perfect if you want to…

• Grow your floral painting skills all year long

• Build confidence drawing and painting flowers from life and imagination

• Add expressive, layered florals to your mixed-media work

• Deepen your understanding of color, composition, rhythm, and form

• Develop your own unique, joyful floral style

• Be part of a supportive, creative community

• Create a year’s worth of beautiful flower paintings

If flowers make your heart flutter — this is your year.

🌸 Join A Year of Flowers

A year of creativity, color, and blossoming awaits you.
Let’s paint together — bloom by bloom.

This class is taught on Thinkific. Once you purchase the course, you will receive your login information in a welcome email!

xox, Cathy