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Botanical Sketchbook Workshop

Course
88 Lessons

Welcome to the Botanical Sketchbook Workshop

Course Overview

Reccomended Materials List

Frequently Asked Questions

Dates and link to the live classes

Link to the class recordings

Resources and References

Botanical Art Through History

Contemporary Botanical Artists

Botanical Artist Sketchbooks

Libraries, Aethenaeums and Botanical Gardens

Module 1

What you'll learn:

Day 1

Inspiration: The Flower Frescoes of Pompei

Exercise: gather inspiration

Video: my botanical sketchbook

Day 2

Inspiration: Drunk Cotton Roses by Li Di

Exercise: study plant anatomy

Day 3

Inspiration: De Materia Medica and The Vienna Dioscurides

Exercise: create your own materia medica page

Day 4

Inspiration: the plant drawings of Leonardo da Vinci

Exercise: monochromatic drawings on toned paper

Video: monochromatic drawing demo

Day 5

Inspirartion: Martin Schongauer

Exercise: monochromatic drawing technique using lights and darks

Video: sanguine and white on toned paper

Day 6

Inspiration: Albrecht Durer

Exercise: monochromatic dry brush technique,

Video: monochromatic drybrush flower demo

Day 7

Inspiraration: the long-lost sketchbook of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues

Exercise: dry brush technique using lights and darks

Video: drybrush using darks and lights

Module 2

What you'll learn:

Day 8

Inspiration: Giovanna Garzoni's "Piante Varie"

Exercise: begin your master copy

Video: master copy, part I - drawing

Day 9

Inspiration: Jacob Marrel's book of Tulips

Exercise: begin with a graded wash

Video: establishing local color with a graded wash

Day 10

Inspiration: the adventures of Maria Sybilla Merian

Exercise: creating a blended wash

Video: blended/variegated wash

Day 11

Inspiration: The Monickx Atlas

Exercise: adding detail/drybrush on top of your wash

Video: adding detail to your master copy with dry brush.

Day 12

Alida Withoos

Exercise: glazing with watercolor

Video: adding a glaze to your painting

Day 13

Elizabeth Blackwell's Curious Herbal

Exercise: stippling

Video: stippling to add detail and texture

Day 14

Inspiration: the paper mosaicks of Mary Delaney

Exercise: your own paper mosaic

Day 15

Claude Aubriet and the "Velins du Roi"

Exercise: create your underdrawing

Video: ballpoint pen underdrawing

Day 16

Inspiration: Francoise Madeline Basseporte, painter to the king

Exercise: the monochromatic palette

Video: monochromatic onion painting

Day 17

Inspiration: Gerard Van Spaendonck, painter to Napoleon

Exercise: the monochromatic palette, part II

Video: monochromatic palette, detail

Day 18

Inspiration: Pierre-Joseph Redoute, "the Raphael of Flowers"

Exercise: complementary palette

Video: beginning a complementary palette painting

Day 19

George Dyonysius Ehret

Exercise: complementary palette painting, detail

Video: continue the complementary color painting

Day 20: Anne Pratt

Inspiration: the "popular botanist", Anne Pratt

Exercise: analogous color palette

Video: beginning an analogous color palette painting

Day 21: The Banks Florilegium

Inspiration: Sydney Parkinson, Captain Cook and the Banks Florilegium

Exercise: analogous palette painting, part II

Video: analogous color palette painting, part II

Day 22

Emily Dickinson's Herbarium

Exercise: take your sketchbook on a botanical date

Day 23

Inspiration: the Bauer Brothers, Franz and Ferdinand

Day 24

John Ruskin

What to do:

Day 25

The Diary of Lilias Trotter

What to do today:

Day 26

Inspiration: the nomadic Victorian, Marianne North

What to do today:

Day 27

Harriet Isabel Adams and the Flowers of the British Isles

What to do today

Day 28

Inspiration: the other life of Beatrix Potter

What to do today

Day 29

Inspiration: the surrealist flowers of Salvador Dali

What to do today:

Day 30

Inspiration: Margaret Mee's Quest for the Moonflower Cactus

What to do today