Botanical Drawing and Illustration for Beginners

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Additional Information

Please bring with you to the first day:

•      **Graphite Pencils, such as Faber Castell 9000 or Staedtler Lumograph, grades 4H, 2H, F or HB, B, 2B

  ·       **Plastic eraser, such as Staedtler Mars Plastic Eraser 526 50

  ·       Kneadable eraser, such as Staedtler, Jakar or Faber Castell

  ·       Hot Pressed (HP) 140lb (or heavier) watercolour paper, size A3 pad or block or loose sheet. Suitable brands include Arches, Stonehenge, Daler Rowney The Langton or The Langton Prestige, Bockingford

  ·       Tracing paper

  ·       **Sketchbook – A3, paper to be as white and as smooth as possible. Ideal sketchbook would be Daler Rowney Ebony sketchbook

  ·       Watercolour: Winsor & Newton Artists/Professional Quality (not Cotman) pans/half-pans: Blues - Winsor Blue Green Shade, Winsor Blue Red Shade. Yellows: Transparent Yellow, Indian Yellow. Reds: Quinacridone Red, Permanent Rose. PLUS Winsor Violet Dioxazine,

  ·       Brushes: Pointed Round or Round: either sable, synthetic or mix. I use predominantly sable brushes for laying down washes and detailed work.  Size 6 x1, Size 4 x1, Size 2 x1, Size 0 x1

  ·       Paint palette –  small daisy ceramic palette and a white household china side plate

  ·       **Lamp/travel lamp – with daylight bulb

** - required for the first session

Other items can be purchased throughout the duration of the course

If you would like to do some pre-course research, you can look at:

• Botanical Art Techniques by The American Society of Botanical Artists
• Botanical Illustration by Valerie Oxley
• Botanical Illustration From Life by Isik Güner
• Website: https://www.botanicalartandartists.com/