Winter Botanicals: Drawing and Printmaking
10 Week Class ONLINE | Available
In this course, we will explore winter botanicals through drawing, watercolour painting and monoprinting using photographs and botanicals including branches, berries, bark, seedpods, grasses and more. You will learn to take good photographs and edit them with your phone and to create a collection of images and botanicals to choose from for further investigation with wet and dry media including working with gelli plates. Presentations and demonstrations will give you an insight of the imagery of the winter botanical world and how artists in the past and present worked representational and abstract in this field. Individual feedback will be part of each session and handouts/links for further exploration will be provided. In order to create a safe and fun studio atmosphere, all students are expected to present online with video and sound, share images and participate in group and individual discussions and mentorship.
Note: There will be no class on February 17th due to the Family Day Holiday.
Base Tuition: $480 +
Material Fee: $15 =
$495 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- How to describe form with line
- How to apply value, colour and texture in your drawings
- How to interpret nature by using patterns, detail, close-ups and repetition in your compositions
- How to monoprint and the use of various tools
- To explore and develop ideas, editing and presenting
Materials will be discussed on the first day. Please keep receipts in case anything needs to be returned.
- Pad of mixed media and/or watercolour paper
- Set of good quality pencil crayons and pencils
- Set of watercolours and watercolour pencils
- Small bottle of India or Sumi ink
- Round and flat brushes, various sizes (small to medium)
- Kneadable eraser
- Sharpener
- Scissors/Exacto knife
- Gelli printing plate made for printing with block printing inks. (Speedball or Gelli Arts)
- Block printing inks (tubes), various colours
- Soft brayer/roller
Additional Materials will be discussed.
Tina Oehmsen-Clark
Tina's work has always been an exploration between various art forms, including sound, dance, installation, sculpture and drawing. She has exhibited in various galleries, museums and public spaces in Germany, Denmark and Canada. Since moving to Toronto in 1996, Oehmsen-Clark has worked on art projects at the AGO, Ryerson Student Gallery, Dancemakers and Wychwood Artscape. Besides her own art practice, she has taught in a number of schools and institutions including TSA. Tina always enjoys working with a wide age range, and believes that teaching art is an interactive learning process, both to inspire and be inspired.