What’s Inside the Free Lesson?
📹 Three step-by-step videos—one for each stage of the painting:
✔️ Base Layer – Laying down the foundation with rich colors and textures.
✔️ Colorful Layer – Bringing in movement and depth with vibrant hues.
✔️ Adding Flowers – Defining your abstract blooms and letting them shine!
Each stage is demonstrated in both Cold Wax & Oils and Powerwax & Acrylics, so you can follow along no matter which medium you prefer.
No Experience? No Problem! This class is all about playing, exploring, and enjoying the process—no pressure, no perfection needed! Just grab your supplies, follow along, and have fun creating expressive, textured floral paintings.
Sign up now and start painting today! 🎨✨
I used similar colors for both the acrylic & Powerwax painting and the oil & cold wax painting. While they didn’t turn out exactly the same, the effects you can create with cold wax in both mediums are surprisingly similar! If you want to dive deeper into these techniques, check out my in-depth classes: Cold Wax and Oils – The Basics and Cold Wax and Acrylics – The Basics. You'll learn all about layering, textures, and how to make the most of each medium. Explore the classes below! 😊
🎨 How to create a rich, textured base layer to build your painting on.
🎨 How to layer colors for depth and vibrancy.
🎨 How to paint abstract flowers with a sense of movement and flow.
🎨 The difference between Cold Wax Medium for Oils and Powerwax for Acrylics—so you can choose what works best for you!
I am Marina - your coach on your cold wax painting journey!”
I’m so happy you stopped by The Cold Wax Lab! I’d love to connect with you. A little about me: I’m a Dutch professional artist living in the South of France with my family and our lovely dog, Tessa. I’m passionate about painting with cold wax medium—both in oils and with water-based cold wax and acrylics. Discovering these mediums completely transformed my creative process, and I believe it can do the same for you! Dive into the world of cold wax painting with me—I’m sure you’ll love it!
I am so excited to share this lesson with you and I hope you will have fun painting these Abstract Flowers with me!
"There are always flowers for those who want to see them"
FREE
This is the water-based cold wax I use to create the same effects as cold wax with oils. It’s called Powerwax, and it's made by Powertex. Powertex has representatives in most countries, so feel free to contact me at marinatvb@outlook.com if you need help finding one!
Student Gallery
I fell in love with the process of using cold wax in my oil painting because of Marina’s class! The videos made me feel as if I was right there, in Marina’s beautiful studio, while she patiently taught me step by step. Her love of the creative process shines and spills over onto her students. By the end of the series, I knew I wanted to push my limits and see how far I could go by experimenting with cold wax in my paintings. I felt she gave us all the freedom to use this medium in various ways and gave lots of examples along the way to help us see just what cold wax can do
Linda L.
Artist
JOIN ME! LET'S MAKE THE WORLD MORE COLOURFUL!
Reviews
5
Top Rated
marjo coenders
Beautiful
I loved watching the videos. Gives me new inspiration. I will definitely watch the videos again soon and make my own vase with flowers. Thank you so much for this free class and inspiration!
Carine Gïraldo
Fantastic!
I love the transparency but also the depth you create. I will buy a pot of wax as soon as possible and then follow your interesting lessons
Ghada Omara
it’s amazing class , Love it
It’s really very interesting class ,I appreciate all the good informations and i enjoyed a lot learning from you thank you so much for helping us to develop our skills in Art journey
Jen Fleming
Wonderful teaching and film
This is such good teaching! I have watched it over and over again. I am half way through my first two flower paintings and can’t wait till they dry. Thank you so much!
Doug Comstock
Flowers
Very inspiring
Af Mf
Thank you Marina, this course was amazing. It was new to me. Your paintings are wonderful. Thank you.
Very inspiring.
Rate this course