Botanical Sketching & Journaling
4 Week Class | Registration opens 2026-02-10 12:00 PM
Enjoy and explore botanicals this Spring in this 4 week course with various media including pencils, colour pencils, fine liner pens, markers and water colour. Through demonstrations and short presentations you will learn how to identify and draw plants, use and combine media, description and memory notes resulting in a unique and individual journal.
We will draw from observation in and out of the studio, including weather permitting, field trips drawing on site and taking photographs as well.
Base Tuition: $240 + Material Fee: $20 = $260 Total
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- What You Will Learn:
- Interpret nature by using patterns, composition, detail, close-ups and repetition.
- Explore various dry and wet media in a sketchbook that will serve as a diary at the endof the course.
- Learn how to develop ideas, edit and present your work.
- Learn how to describe botanicals with line, form, shape, value, colour and texture as well as added text
- Please keep all purchase receipts in case items need to be returned.
- Sketchbook, Mixed Media paper, 14"-17"
- Set of coloured pencils (Polychromes)
- Some markers(Tombow or Copic for example with fine and brush tip)
- F, HB, 2B, 3B pencils
- 3 Fine line pens (0.8, 0.7, 0.5) black
- Gum and kneadable eraser
- Scissors, pencil sharpener
- Glue Stick
Additional materials will be supplied.
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.