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Botanical Sketchbook Workshop, Sundays

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Welcome to the Botanical Sketchbook Workshop

  • Course Overview
  • Reccomended materials list
  • Dates and link to the live classes
  • Link to the class recordings
  • Link to the Botanical Sketchbook community
  • Materials Discount Codes
  • To share you work:
  • Frequently Asked Questions

Resources and References

  • Botanical Art Through History
  • Contemporary Botanical Artists
  • Rare Books And Where to Find Them

Module 1

  • What you'll learn:

Day 1

Delayed 1 day

  • Inspiration: The Flower Frescoes of Pompei
  • Exercise: gather inspiration
  • Video: my botanical sketchbook (length: 2:47 min)

Day 2

Delayed 2 days

  • Inspiration: Drunk Cotton Roses by Li Di
  • Exercise: study plant anatomy
  • Video: how to tone paper (length: 3:38 min)

Day 3

Delayed 3 days

  • Inspiration: De Materia Medica and The Vienna Dioscurides
  • Exercise: create your own herbal, or Materia Medica page
  • Video: a modern herbal (length: 3:50 min)

Day 4

Delayed 4 days

  • Inspiration: the plant drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
  • Exercise: monochromatic drawings on toned paper
  • Video: sanguine drawing demo (length: 6:16 min)

Day 5

Delayed 5 days

  • Inspiration: Martin Schongauer's groundbreaking peonies
  • Exercise: experiment with your materials
  • Video: play with your materials (length: 8:40 min)

Day 6

Delayed 6 days

  • Inspiration: Albrecht Durer, "the Leonardo of the North"
  • Exercise: monochromatic dry brush technique
  • Video: monochromatic dry brush flower demo (length: 7:53 min)

Day 7

Delayed 7 days

  • 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 (length: 7:30 min)

Module 2

Delayed 8 days

  • What you'll learn:

Day 8

Delayed 8 days

  • Inspiration: Giovanna Garzoni's "Piante Varie"
  • Exercise: begin your master copy
  • Video: "Lily of the Valley" master copy, (length: 8:52 min)
  • Video: "Lily of the Valley" master copy, (extended, length: 2:22:47 min)

Day 9

Delayed 9 days

  • Inspiration: Jacob Marrel's book of Tulips
  • Exercise: begin with a graded wash
  • Video: establishing local color with a graded wash (length: 20:58 min)

Day 10

Delayed 10 days

  • Inspiration: the adventures of Maria Sybilla Merian
  • Exercise: creating a blended wash
  • Video: creating a blended wash (length: 14:57 min)

Day 11

Delayed 11 days

  • Inspiration: The Monickx Atlas
  • Exercise: adding detail/drybrush on top of your wash
  • Video: adding detail with dry brush (length: 2:54 min)

Day 12

Delayed 12 days

  • Inspiration: the botanical superstar, Alida Withoos
  • Exercise: glazing with watercolor
  • Video: adding a glaze to your painting (length: 14:59 min)

Day 13

Delayed 13 days

  • Inspiration: Elizabeth Blackwell's "Curious Herbal"
  • Exercise: stippling
  • Video: stippling to add detail and texture (length: 4:03 min)

Day 14

Delayed 14 days

  • Inspiration: the paper mosaicks of Mary Delaney
  • Exercise: your own paper mosaic

Module 3

Delayed 15 days

  • What you'll learn:
  • Video: "Clematis, petal 1": opacity through drybrush (length: 5:36 min)
  • Video: "Clematis, petal 2": opacity through underdrawing (length: 4:51 min)
  • Video: "Clematis, petal 3": monochromatic palette (length: 6:22 min)
  • Video: "Clematis, petal 4": complementary palette (length: 8:39, min)
  • Video: "Clematis, petal 5": analogous palette (length: 7:52 min)
  • Video: "Clematis, petal 6": crosshatching technique (length: 10:25 min)
  • Video: "Blue Iris " painting on vellum, (length: 20:03 min)
  • Video: "Red Onion I", complementary color palette (length: 16:22 min)
  • Video: "Red Onion II, analogous color demo (length: 19:32)

Day 15

Delayed 15 days

  • Claude Aubriet and the "Velins du Roi"
  • Exercise: create your underdrawing
  • Video: ballpoint pen underdrawing (extended, 59:30 min)

Day 16

Delayed 16 days

  • Inspiration: Francoise Madeline Basseporte, painter to the king
  • Exercise: complementary palette painting
  • Video: complementary palette painting, part I (extended, length: 1:09:50 min)

Day 17

Delayed 17 days

  • Inspiration: Gerard Van Spaendonck, painter to Napoleon
  • Exercise: complementary palette painting, detail and glazing
  • Video: complementary palette painting, part II (extended, length: 37:21 min)

Day 18

Delayed 18 days

  • Inspiration: Pierre-Joseph Redoute, "the Raphael of Flowers"
  • Exercise: underdrawing for your next painting
  • Video: ballpoint pen underdrawing (extended, length: 34:02 min)

Day 19

Delayed 19 days

  • Inspiration: George Dyonysius Ehret - artist, scientist, gardener.
  • Exercise: analogous color palette
  • Video: analogous color palette painting, part I (extended, length: 1:00:30 min)

Day 20

Delayed 20 days

  • Inspiration: the "popular botanist", Anne Pratt
  • Exercise: analogous palette painting, part II
  • Video: analogous color palette painting, part II (extended, length: 58:58 min)

Day 21

Delayed 21 days

  • Inspiration: the polymath and prophet, John Ruskin
  • Exercise: take your sketchbook on a botanical date
  • Video: a botanical sketchbook by Dianne Sutherland (length: 1:43 min)

Module 4

  • What you'll learn:

Day 22

Delayed 22 days

  • Inspiration: Sydney Parkinson, Captain Cook and the Banks Florilegium
  • Exercise: begin with an abstract background
  • Video: abstract background and texture (length: 3:59 min)

Day 23

Delayed 23 days

  • Inspiration: the Bauer Brothers, Franz and Ferdinand
  • Exercise: paint into your abstract page
  • Video: paint into abstract page (length: 23:04 min)

Day 24

Delayed 24 days

  • Emily Dickinson's Herbarium
  • Exercise: a herbarium page with water blooms
  • Video: creating water blooms (length: 4:26 min)

Day 25

Delayed 25 days

  • The Diary of Lilias Trotter
  • Exercise: write and paint into your herbarium page
  • Video: painting into your herbarium page (length: 14:07 min)

Day 26

Delayed 26 days

  • Inspiration: the nomadic Victorian, Marianne North
  • Exercise: begin your final project

Day 27

Delayed 27 days

  • Harriet Isabel Adams and the Flowers of the British Isles
  • Exercise: work transparently to establish shadows and local color

Day 28

Delayed 28 days

  • Inspiration: the other life of Beatrix Potter
  • Exercise: focus on your lights

Day 29

Delayed 29 days

  • Inspiration: the surrealist flowers of Salvador Dali
  • Exercise: details and glazes

Day 30

Delayed 30 days

  • Inspiration: Margaret Mee's quest for the moonflower cactus
  • Exercise: finish your final project

Botanical Sketchbook Library

  • Irina Speranza

Previews for other classes and a discount code

Delayed 32 days

  • Sketchbook Habit Workshop
  • Tree Drawing Workshop
  • Bird Painting Workshop