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Botanical Sketchbook Workshop, Thursdays

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  • 66 Lessons
  • Starts May 28

The live classes will take place on: Thursday, May 28th, 2-4pm EST Thursday, June 4th, 2-4pm EST Thursday, June 11th, 2-4pm EST Thursday, June 18th, 2-4pm EST This will be a 30 day online class, with 4 live sessions and 30 days of prompts, assignments and feedback designed to help you learn.
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Contents

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

Day 1

Inspiration: The Flower Frescoes of Pompei
What to do today:

Day 2

Inspiration: Drunk Cotton Roses by Li Di
What to do today:

Day 3

Inspiration: De Materia Medica and The Vienna Dioscurides
What to do today:

Day 4

Inspiration: the plant drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
What to do today:

Day 5

Inspirartion: Martin Schongauer
What to draw today: practice wet into wet watercolor with one color

Day 6

Inspiration: Albrecht Durer
What to do today:

Day 7

Inspiraration: the long-lost sketchbook of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues
What to do today: composition

Day 8

Inspiration: Giovanna Garzoni's "Piante Varie"
What to do today: stippling

Day 9

Inspiration: Jacob Marrel's book of Tulips
What to do today:

Day 10

Inspiration: the adventures of Maria Sybilla Merian
What to do today:

Day 11

Inspiration: The Monickx Atlas
What to do today

Day 12

Alida Withoos
What to do today:

Day 13

Elizabeth Blackwell's Curious Herbal
What to do today:

Day 14

Inspiration: the paper mosaicks of Mary Delaney
What to do today

Day 15

Claude Aubriet and the "Velins du Roi"
What to do today:

Day 16

Inspiration: Francoise Madeline Basseporte, painter to the king
What to do today:

Day 17

Inspiration: Gerard Van Spaendonck, painter to Napoleon
What to do today:

Day 18

Inspiration: Pierre-Joseph Redoute, "the Raphael of Flowers"
What to do today:

Day 19

George Dyonysius Ehret
What to do today:

Day 20

Inspiration: the "popular botanist", Anne Pratt

Day 21

Inspiration: Sydney Parkinson, Captain Cook and the Banks Florilegium
What to do today:

Day 22

Inspiration: the Bauer Brothers, Franz and Ferdinand

Day 23

Emily Dickinson's Herbarium
What to do

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