Watercolor botanical practice sheets: leaves, sprigs, wreaths and borders

Watercolor botanical lessons that walk you from your very first leaf stroke all the way to finished wreaths, swags and borders. The course has 32 pages and comes in US Letter and A4 as an instant PDF download, so you can print a sheet and start painting today.

Inside you will find leaf drills, a mixing chart for 24 greens, a 20-leaf reference chart, 10 step by step sprigs, 6 inch and 8 inch circle guides, 6 wreath layouts, 6 wreath tutorials and 4 border exercises. Nothing is shipped.

How these watercolor botanical sheets build your skills

Nearly every leaf comes down to two strokes, and the drill pages let you repeat them until they feel easy. The leaf shape families then tell you which stroke suits each plant. On your own mixing chart you learn to blend 24 natural greens, so you can leave harsh tube green behind and get greenery that looks calm and varied.

Each sprig and wreath is split into small pictures, and every picture adds just one painted layer. Clock points on the 6 inch and 8 inch circle guides keep wreaths round and balanced. Later, the layouts, borders and troubleshooting chart help you plan cards, name wreaths and journal pages without second guessing.

Who will love this greenery painting course

• Adult beginners looking for a calm, guided path into loose leaves and greenery
• Painters hoping to make wreaths for cards, name signs or quotes to hang at home
• Anyone who finds natural greens hard to mix, or whose wreaths end up lopsided
• Painters who learn better from clear step pictures and color recipes than from videos

Design and print details

• Clean, elegant layout on white pages with gentle blush pink accents that save ink
• Generous margins on all pages, so a home printer will not trim anything
• Portrait pages in two sizes: US Letter (8.5 x 11 in) and A4 (210 x 297 mm)
• No dates anywhere, so each lesson can be repeated as many times as you wish
• Pale gray outlines and guides that disappear under paint; these are not coloring pages
• Fits a binder or clipboard, or have it spiral bound at a print shop

Inside the watercolor botanical course: 32 pages

1. 1Cover page listing the contents
2. 2Getting started, covering printing on watercolor paper, light box tracing, how the course is set up, a short supply list and room to write your goals
3. 3Drills for single-stroke leaves, with traceable guides for the press and lift leaf, leaning leaves, the round dab, the long willow pull and stem into leaf
4. 4Drills for two-stroke leaves, covering the two-stroke leaf, the two-stroke round leaf, the curved leaf, the heart leaf and paired leaves on one stem
5. 5Leaf shape families (pointed, round, serrated, compound and needle), with two painted samples and five outlines to trace for each family
6. 6A 24-green mixing chart, made of a 4 x 4 grid from 4 yellows and 4 blues plus 8 earthy greens with recipes, and a swatch box beside every mix
7. 7 and 8A 20-leaf reference chart showing a painted sample, its leaf family and a painting tip for silver dollar eucalyptus, olive, fern, ivy, berry sprig, bay laurel, rosemary, ginkgo, willow, monstera, maple, oak, pothos, palm frond, lavender, pine, boxwood, sage, holly and birch
8. 9Silver dollar eucalyptus sprig, taught in 5 pictured steps, a palette of 3 colors, a pale outline to paint on top of, plus space for notes
9. 10Olive branch sprig, taught in 5 pictured steps, a palette of 3 colors, a pale outline to paint on top of, plus space for notes
10. 11Fern frond sprig, taught in 5 pictured steps, a palette of 3 colors, a pale outline to paint on top of, plus space for notes
11. 12Ivy trail sprig, taught in 5 pictured steps, a palette of 3 colors, a pale outline to paint on top of, plus space for notes
12. 13Berry sprig, taught in 6 illustrated steps with a pale outline to paint on top of, plus space for notes
13. 14Bay laurel sprig, taught in 5 pictured steps, a palette of 3 colors, a pale outline to paint on top of, plus space for notes
14. 15Rosemary sprig, taught in 5 pictured steps, a palette of 3 colors, a pale outline to paint on top of, plus space for notes
15. 16Ginkgo sprig, taught in 5 pictured steps, a palette of 3 colors, a pale outline to paint on top of, plus space for notes
16. 17Willow sprig, taught in 4 pictured steps, a palette of 3 colors, a pale outline to paint on top of, plus space for notes
17. 18Monstera sprig, taught in 5 pictured steps, a palette of 3 colors, a pale outline to paint on top of, plus space for notes
18. 19Building a wreath, with an actual size 6 inch circle guide, clock point marks, a 5-step build order and tips on balance
19. 20An 8 inch circle guide drawn as a half circle you trace two times, plus instructions and a box for planning your wreath
20. 21 and 22Six wreath layouts (full ring, crescent, half wreath, swag, heart, and asymmetric with space for a name), each with a placement map of stem starts and leaf direction, 5 checkpoints and a sketch box for your own version
21. 23Eucalyptus ring tutorial in 5 illustrated steps, showing the finished wreath, a small practice guide and notes
22. 24Olive crescent tutorial in 6 illustrated steps, showing the finished wreath, a small practice guide and notes
23. 25Fern and berry half wreath tutorial in 6 illustrated steps, showing the finished wreath, a small practice guide and notes
24. 26Greenery swag tutorial in 6 illustrated steps, showing the finished piece, a small practice guide and notes
25. 27Rosemary and lavender heart tutorial in 5 illustrated steps, showing the finished heart, a small practice guide and notes
26. 28Ivy and ginkgo name wreath tutorial in 6 illustrated steps, showing the finished wreath, a small practice guide and notes
27. 29 and 30Four border exercises with laurel and garland (straight laurel, mirrored laurel, scalloped garland, berry vine), each offering a painted sample, one row to trace and two open rows
28. 31A practice log of 16 rows to note the date, subject, paper, greens you used, what worked, what to try next and a rating from 1 to 5
29. 32A troubleshooting chart covering 10 frequent greenery and wreath problems, what causes them and how to correct them

Files included in your download

• Watercolor Leaves & Wreaths Practice Sheets, US Letter PDF (32 pages)
• Watercolor Leaves & Wreaths Practice Sheets, A4 PDF (32 pages)
• Read Me First, a brief printing guide (PDF)

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• Print only the pages you need, as often as you like, for your own personal use.

Before you buy the watercolor botanical lessons

• This is a PDF designed to be printed. The sheets are painting practice pages, not a hyperlinked digital file and not a coloring book.
• You receive digital files only. Nothing physical is mailed to you.
• On paper, colors may look a little different from your screen.
• Made for personal use. Please keep the files to yourself and do not share, resell or redistribute them.
• Digital files cannot be returned. If something will not open or print properly, email us and we will help quickly.
• Paints, brushes and paper are not part of the purchase.
• The color recipes name common paint colors, so close matches from the set you already own will work fine.

How this was made

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