Botanical Drawing: Mixed Media Explorations

When

Friday, December 4, 10 AM

Where

Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Henrico

Price

Not listed. Check with the venue.

This three-session studio intensive is a deep dive into color relationships — observing, interpreting, and marking with greater fluidity than you’ve allowed yourself before. Working with graphite, watercolor washes, and colored pencil, you’ll slow down and study the nuances of hue, value, and light that everyday looking skips past entirely. Color asks more of the eye than greyscale ever does: every hue carries its own inherent value, and nothing renders true until that relationship is actually seen — through sustained, focused attention, which is in itself a visual art technique. Join me as we study early December light — remarkably different from late winter, early spring, even summer. Sessions move between indoors and the field, weather permitting, so dress for the season. Specimens are chosen collaboratively, discussed ahead of each session, with an emphasis on working from life: continuing to deepen our connection to the natural world through mark-making. Expect a relaxed, experimental, inquiry-based studio — space to explore your own artistic voice as you continue to deepen it. A pre-class study page exercise gets your pencil miles back up before session one; details in the su

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