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Celebrating 100 Zoom Workshops
We’re over-the-moon excited to announce a major milestone: our 100th Zoom workshop! Thank you for hopping aboard this wild ride of creativity, growth, and botanical wonders. We couldn’t have done it without our incredible community of passionate learners like you! To celebrate our 100th Zoom drawing workshop, we’re offering a SPECIAL BONUS! Participants (who purchase … Continued
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Elevate Your Botanical Illustrations: 4 Essential Tips for Composition
If you’re delving into botanical illustration, honing composition skills is key. (Our FREE Composition Quick Guide is a great place to start.) Whether you’re a casual artist or an experienced illustrator, refining your compositions can elevate your work to new heights. In this guide, we’ll explore four essential tips to enhance your botanical illustrations: … Continued
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Composition Quick Guide
Pleasing compositions rarely happen by accident. We arrange the components until we are satisfied. How do you know you’ve found your final arrangement? It may feel like a gut instinct, like you’re not sure exactly why, but something about it just looks “right.” Here is a free composition quick guide to help you create … Continued
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Begin with Basics
Many people say things like, “I can’t draw to save my life,” and “I could never draw something like that!”, but the truth is… ANYONE can draw! (Yes, even YOU!) If you have the desire to learn, and you commit to the time it takes, we can show you how. Here’s everything you need … Continued
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4 Steps to Start Your Seasonal Sketchbook: Winter
In winter, the exposed twigs and branches on a tree offer important information about a tree’s structure and identifying characteristics. Leaf arrangement and leaf scars are studied easily on these exposed branches, and often dormant buds, dried bracts, seed pods, nuts, dried berries, and capsules are present too. Observing these details can help you understand … Continued
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4 Tricks to Fool the Eye: Trompe L'oeil
Have you ever seen a drawing so realistic that it fools you into believing it’s a three-dimensional object? “Trompe L’oeil” is a French term meaning “Fool the Eye”. Learn (from Wendy!) how to incorporate these fun techniques on kraft paper and tell a story by choosing related or symbolic elements to draw. Lesson … Continued
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5 Warm-Up Exercises to Stretch your Drawing Muscles
5 Warm-Up Exercises to Stretch your Drawing Muscles What do artists and athletes have in common? They both use their bodies as instruments to perform enjoyable activities. To keep their instruments in tip-top shape, they often stretch their muscles before they begin. Botanical drawing can take a loooong time, and you may not … Continued
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Set For Success
Set For Success The Power of Preparation When you cook dinner in your kitchen, how do you prepare? You probably clean the countertop, retrieve ingredients, gather utensils, maybe pre-heat the oven. Just as you prepare your kitchen before you jump into the art of cooking, you must prepare your drawing space before you jump into … Continued
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Practicing Watercolor Techniques
If patience were an art supply, we think it would be watercolor! Why? Because in order to produce the watercolor painting of your dreams, you need to wait for it to dry completely between layers. Keep reading for more helpful watercolor tips from our instructors. Go with the flow “Working in watercolor requires … Continued
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Welcome to the (Plant) Family
Did you know that Chocolate, Cotton, Okra and Hibiscus are all related?! Plants are classified by their reproductive structures, so plants in the same family have flowers (and other reproductive parts) that look alike, but otherwise, they are free to be their unique (and delicious!) selves. Plant Awareness The more I draw botanicals, … Continued
