If you’ve ever glanced at a floral watercolor and thought,
“I wish I could do that,”
this course is your gentle, joyful way in.
Willa's Watercolor Leaves and Florals
A gentle mini course for loosening up, trusting your brush, and making beautiful botanical marks.
Your brush.
A few colors.
And the freedom to create beautiful abstract leaves and flowers (without overwhelm).
Why This Course Is Different
This isn’t a technical lecture — it’s an invitation to play, explore, and build real, usable watercolor skills that instantly make your art feel alive. You’ll leave confident in your brushwork, color mixing, and ability to compose loose botanical shapes that feel fresh and expressive.
What You’ll Learn
Foundational Brushwork + Drills
Simple brush marks that become second nature — no perfection, just flow and confidence.
A Color-Mixing System That Works
I’ll share my signature approach to mixing harmonious palettes so your colors sing together like they were meant to be.
Basic Leaf & Floral Shapes
Step by step, shape by shape — we’ll build a vocabulary of marks that feel loose, effortless, and truly yours.
Faux Patterning for Creative Play
Once you can make shapes confidently, we’ll play with arrangements that turn simple marks into delightful patterns.
Paint With Me!
ONE-TIME PAYMENT ($57 USD + tax)
Who This Course Is For
This mini course is perfect if you…
…already have a little watercolor experience,
…want to loosen up your style,
…love flowy, abstract botanicals,
…want playful pages for journals, cards, or collage fodder,
… and/or feel stuck and want creative momentum!
(If you’re brand new to watercolor, this isn’t a complete fundamentals class — but it will boost your skill and confidence fast.)
Fancy Watercolor Paper NOT Required!
I've been painting with watercolors for a long time, and one thing is for sure, with modern watercolor painting, you can achieve wonderful effects on almost any paper. Let me show you how!
Create Journal Pages
Once you master painting loose watercolor leaves and florals, painting pages and pages of patterns for your handmade books and journals is a very relaxing way to spend your time.
Create Stationery
Use what you learn to create custom personalized stationery quite easily!
Fussy Cut for Collage Fodder
Art journalers and collage artists rejoice!
Fussy cut your watercolor leaves and florals for stunning effects!
Start Painting Today!
ONE-TIME PAYMENT ($57 USD + tax)
Meet your Teacher!
Wendy Solganik
Wendy Solganik, aka @willa.wanders on Instagram, is a life-long artist and crafter, currently working in watercolor, hand lettering, mixed media collage, art journaling and handmade book arts. From production wheel pottery to scrapbooking to knitting and so many more passions, Wendy always dives deep to master a craft.
After a fifteen year stint as the co-owner of Luscious Verde Cards, a successful, Louie award-winning, custom invitation design, printing and manufacturing company, you can find Wendy at home in her spare bedroom art studio moving around from art project to art project. It is the experience of a delicious flow state while she is creating that keeps Wendy coming back to making day after day.
Wendy balances making art with energetically running her online art course platform, Willa Workshops. Over the past four years, she and other artists from around the globe have launched over 40 new online mixed media art, handmade book, collage art and watercolor painting courses. This includes the epic year long mixed media collage art experience called Fodder School, which is the creation that Wendy is most proud of.
Willa Workshops General FAQs
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There are no refunds on online courses
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You will have “Lifetime” Access to all classes unless otherwise mentioned—"Lifetime" is relevant to the lifespan of the Willa Workshops business (I don't plan on leaving anytime soon!) or the longevity of the technology.
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This class includes captions in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Hindi, and Hebrew
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All Willa Workshops lesson content is prerecorded video. Once your purchase is complete, you will have instant access to the classroom, and are free to work through the content at your own pace
You can access Teachable and watch the lessons in your browser (PC, Mac, Android) or the Teachable app for iOS (recommended for iPhone and iPad)
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No, at least not available as local downloads to your device. The Teachable app for iOS may allow you to download lessons for offline playback.
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No. One student per registration. This is an honor system that if violated will result in your removal from the course with no refund.
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Please do! Always tag @willa.wanders and mention the course in your post description
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Yes! Please keep them for yourself, give them as a gift, or sell them.
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That's a hard no.
There's an endless amount of incredible art tutorial content in every Willa Workshops course. For some creatives, it's tempting to want to use these videos as a well of inspiration for their own creative enterprise, YouTube channel, brand, etc.
Willa Workshops Courses are not sold with permission for anyone to use it in this way--specifically, as a source of inspiration for any one's free how-to social media tutorial content, whether that be on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok or any other social media platform.
If you are a creative who loves to share your work with the world, that's wonderful! I love it when participants share their finished projects in photos and videos on social media. Please tag me @willa.wanders, I'd love to support you!
But making how-to videos of yourself while creating from the lesson content or obviously inspired and derivative of Willa Workshops course content, and then posting those tutorials on any free social media platform, will get you banned from Willa Workshops with no refund issued.