Resource person: learn@vandusen.org

Location: Via Zoom

Description:

Join this three-session series with artist and educator Katharine Dickinson to enhance your drawing skills, whether for journaling, teaching, or simply for personal enjoyment. Observational drawing focuses on accurately depicting what you see directly from nature using pencil on paper. Through this process, you'll learn to identify and record the unique characteristics of plants by applying the elements of art—line, shape, form, and colour—and developing your own distinctive botanical drawings. Explore various techniques for quickly capturing plants from different angles and with close-up details. Additionally, you will gain tips for organizing your pages so that images and text flow together in harmony.    

Recommended art supplies: 

• 9x12 multimedia sketchbook (or preferred journal size that can take watercolour washes) 
• HB and 2B pencils 
• Kneadable eraser 
• Pencil sharpener 
• Additional drawing tools (optional): mechanical pencil or permanent ink micron pen 
• Watercolour paint set (Windsor & Newton or similar) 
• Watercolor brushes: #4 and #8 round with a point 
• Three jam jars for water 
• White ceramic paint palette 
• Printing paper (for drawing exercises) 

This course will take place online, and recordings will be available for participants for a limited time. Pre-registration is required.  Image by Katharine Dickinson.   

Read our cancellation policy here. 

Available spots: Available

Price: $99.00 Taxes not included

Notes: Online course log-in details will be sent within 24 hours before the course date. For registration support, email learn@vandusen.org

More information: Please note that registration will close at 4:00 p.m. PT, one business day before the event.

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