Impressionist Flower Painting

Discover the joy of painting through the vibrant beauty of flowers in this welcoming, hands-on course. Inspired by the expressive style of Impressionism, you’ll learn how to capture light, color, and atmosphere—focusing less on perfect detail and more on feeling, movement, and creative freedom.

Guided by artist José Delgado Zúñiga, each session combines demonstrations with practical exercises designed to build your confidence and skills step by step. You’ll explore how to mix colors, simplify forms, and develop lively brushwork that brings your painting to life.

Whether you’re new to painting or looking to loosen up your style, this class offers a supportive environment to experiment, grow, and enjoy the process. By the end of the course, you’ll complete your own expressive flower painting and gain tools you can carry into future work.

What you’ll learn:

• Mixing rich, harmonious color palettes
• Using light and shadow to create depth
• Expressive, confident brushwork
• Simplifying forms into bold, painterly shapes
• Building a painting from first sketch to finished piece

Class Breakdown:

Session 1: Seeing & Simplifying – observation, sketches, color studies

Session 2: Color & Brushwork–mixing, mark-making exercises

Session 3: Composition & Blocking In – starting final painting

Session 4: Development & Finish – refining and critique

Materials not included; you will receive the list of supplies upon registration.

About The Instructor: 

José Delgado Zúñiga was born in Ventura, CA, in 1988 and moved to Miami in 2021. He holds an MFA from Columbia University and has been awarded the Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant, the Rema Hort Mann Artist Community Engagement Grant, and the Robert Gamblin Fellowship. He worked as an Adjunct Faculty member at Columbia University School of the Arts in New York City from 2017 to 2021 and served as the Lead Teaching Artist and Muralist at Groundswell in Brooklyn, NY, from 2017 to 2020. 

His work is included in the collections the Marquez Art Projects Foundation, Miami, the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, and The Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, among other prominent collections.

Delgado Zuñiga has exhibited his work in group and solo exhibitions at the Marquez Art Projects Foundation, the Yale Divinity School of Sacred Music, New Haven, CT; Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, CA; Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA; and in Bronx Calling: The 5th AIM Bronx Biennial, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; Figure Fire Fantasy, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Miami, FL; The Frost Art Museum, Florida, CENTRAL SOUNDS at Luhring Augustine Gallery, Chelsea, CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach, FL; among others.