Botanical Illustration in Pen and Ink – Kew Online Course
What you’ll learn
- How to prepare: brief lessons in botany and dissection
- How to sketch: drawing outlines, internal structures, adding marks and shading
- Transferring your sketch
- Inking: warm up exercises, lines and stippling
- Building confidence in observation and creative skills
- Discover how to create a botanical illustration in pen and ink, guided by a Kew expert
Welcome to this online course from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, brought to you in partnership with David and Charles. You are about to embark on a journey into botanical illustration – a very enjoyable art form that requires attention to detail, focussing your attention on the astounding variation found in nature. Pen and ink is often the medium chosen for documenting new species of flowering plants – everything is drawn to scale to show the characteristics of the plant. In this course, we’ll use a stargazer lily as it’s a large flower with robust structures that are visible to the naked eye. These captivating flowers are loved and admired for their wonderfully large and colourful blooms with prominent spots and a distinctly heady fragrance. You will be led step-by-step through the process of drawing the lily, starting with basic botany and careful observation of the flower. We’ll use precise measurements to guide our drawing to create an accurate representation.
As an online course, this learning experience allows you to follow at your own pace – enjoy the process and you will enjoy the results! You can watch each section as many times as you need, and you can pause at any point to focus on your work before moving on.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to develop their knowledge of botany from an artistic perspective
- Beginners who are keen to learn how to sketch accurately from nature
- Artists with existing skills in sketching or pen and ink who want to develop their botanical knowledge
- Anyone who loves plants and flowers and wants to learn how to record them visually
- Creative nature lovers
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