September 12-16
Monday-Friday, 1:30 – 5:00 pm
Fee: $425
Instructor present each day
Enrollment limited to 12 students
Please request supply list
Students learn how to create a realistic botanical painting using seasonal flowers as inspiration. The instructor shares her entire approach to composing an idea from start to finish. Learn basic watercolor techniques to capture the beautiful colors and details of flowers. Daily demonstrations will emphasize key botanical art principles: observing flower structure, form, and texture; using values to suggest fleshy volume; and how to make predictable, accurate color mixtures. The workshop begins with a graphite drawing of your flower and ends with a watercolor piece well underway.
Kathie Miranda is an award-winning artist and educator of natural science illustration with a specialty in botanical art. She studied at Lyme Academy of Art and at Paier College of Art, and holds a Certificate of Botanical Art and Illustration from The New York Botanical Garden, where she is a highly sought-after instructor in their adult education art program. She serves on the Board of the American Society of Botanical Artists; is Past President of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, Greater New York Chapter; and maintains active memberships in the Connecticut Watercolor Society and the Colored Pencil Society of America. She exhibits her work nationally, and is currently researching and illustrating flora of Connecticut for future exhibition and publication.
