Description
Sunday, May 11, 2025: 3pm – 7pm EST
Wednesday, May 14, 2025: 4pm – 6pm EST
Instructors: Sam & Vern
Level: All levels (perfect for beginners and beyond!)
Botanical Subjects: Green leaves – easy to access houseplant, neighborhood, or grocery store leaves (i.e. spinach) of your choice
We will focus on how to draw leaves that are relatively “simple” (oblong, elliptic, or lance-shaped with a clear mid-vein that splits the leaf into two distinct planes). For the best beginner experience, bring leaves with a smooth/entire margin (leaf edges without “teeth”).
Workshop Description
Leaves are everywhere in botanical art—but how do you make them look realistic and full of life? In this beginner-friendly workshop, we’ll break down the process step by step, making it fun and easy to draw beautiful, dimensional leaves using watercolor and colored pencil.
What We’ll Practice
🍃 Blending Natural Greens – Mix colors to achieve rich, realistic greens that match any leafy subjects.
💡 Creating Depth & Dimension – Practice continuous toning and how to use light and shadows to describe the shape and form of your leaf to make it pop off the page.
🎨 Combining Watercolor & Colored Pencil – We’ll share techniques to blend loose watercolor washes and detailed pencil work to build texture and depth.
🌿 Adding Leaf Details – Learn how to draw subtle veins, graceful margins, and delicate shadows to breathe life into your leaves.
Why Join?
Our workshops are not just about learning but also about community and collaboration. Here’s what makes our Zoom Workshops special:
✨ Step-by-Step Live Demos – Follow along with clear, approachable guidance from friendly instructors.
🌱 Supportive Learning Environment – Engage with instructors and fellow participants, ask questions, and share your progress in a supportive and encouraging space.
🖼️ Constructive Feedback – Receive personalized feedback from experienced educators to help you improve and gain confidence in your artistic abilities.
Even if you can’t join the live sessions, you still get unlimited access to:
🎥 Recorded Sessions – Rewatch anytime to refine your technique. (Recordings are sent a few hours after the live session ends.)
📹 Pre-Recorded Videos – Access to pre-recorded videos to supplement your learning and practice at your own pace to help you feel prepared before the class sessions.
📧 Email Support – If you watch the recordings after the live workshop has ended, you can still receive personalized feedback! Just send photos of your progress to info+images@drawbotanical.com, and an instructor will reply with compliments and constructive critiques.
Sign Up Today!
Let’s embrace all things leafy and bring fresh, vibrant greens to your botanical art. Grab your paints, pencils, and a leafy subject, and let’s get drawing! 🍃✨
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Recommended Supplies:
NOTE: In addition to our usual supplies, you may want some artist tape or masking tape to hold your subject in place. You may also want a piece of clear acetate to support your subject. Ribbons that work best are at least ½” wide and somewhat stiff with a smooth or shiny surface. Ribbon with wire in it holds its shape well, or you can use tape to hold it in place. Beginners may prefer a solid color ribbon, rather than a pattern.
Find all of the supplies that we recommend here. Feel free to follow along with any supplies you have (your result may just end up looking a little different). Our lessons are about a combination of fundamental 3D art concepts and colored pencil and watercolor technique, so you can skip the supplies-specific tips and still learn a lot about art basics including perspective, light source, composition, etc. One of the main points we teach is colored pencil and watercolor technique for slow, continuous toning, but as long as you are able to achieve the same blending result with your chosen materials, you can still benefit from our course lessons.
Cancellation Policy: Cancellations at least two weeks in advance will receive a 75% refund. If you cancel less than one week up to 48 hours before the event, you will receive a 50% refund (less 5% processing fee) if we can find someone to replace your spot. Less than 48 hours cancellation, we cannot issue a refund. You will still receive all recordings from the workshop, and you can watch them at your convenience.
We reserve the right to cancel a workshop at any time. If we cancel a workshop, you will receive a full refund.
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