Capture on paper what nature does so beautifully! Students will be instructed to observe, compose, draw and paint great detail these wonderful subjects. Vibrant flowers from the Garden are sure to inspire your flower portrait masterpiece. All levels are welcome and students may use watercolor, colored pencils or graphite. Advance registration required; $80, $75 members.
Catherine Watters
Botanical Art Supply List
(Available at Dick Bick Art Materials)
Graphite Pencil - grade H (Staedtler Mars Lumograph))
2 Erasers - Pentel ‘Clic’
Kneaded Rubber
2 Palettes (paint pans) – White plastic, round w/10 compartments
2 Paint Brushes - Winsor Newton, Series 7, Kalinski Sable # 1 & #3
(less expensive - Sceptre Gold II by Winsor & Newton # 2 & #4)
Divider - A measuring tool, similar to a compass but with 2 points (no adjusting wheel!)
Whisk - Desk broom to sweep eraser crumbs
Magnifying glass
Gooseneck table lamp
Watercolor Paper - 9” x 12” 140 lb. block of hot-pressed Arches
Watercolors - Winsor Newton (artist quality)
- Permanent Rose
- Permanent Magenta
- Winsor Violet
- New Gamboge
- Burnt Umber
- Payne’s Grey
- Leaf Green (by Holbein)
- Sap Green (by M. Graham)
*** If you wish to work with colored pencils, you will need the following paper and colored pencils:
Drawing Pad - Strathmore Bristol Vellum 300 series
11” x 14” – 20 sheets
Colored Pencils - Sanford Prismacolor
- Cream (PC 914)
- Canary Yellow (PC 916)
- Orange (PC 918)
- Crimson Lake (PC 925)
- Limepeel (PC 1005
- Apple Green (PC 912)
- Olive Green (PC 911)
- Sienna Brown (PC 945)
- Dark Brown (PC 946)
- Violet (PC 932)
- Colorless Blender (PC 1077)
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