Botanical Sketching & Journaling
4 Week Class | Available
Enjoy and explore botanicals with various media including pencils, colour pencils, fine liner pens, markers and watercolour. Through demonstrations and short presentations, you will learn how to identify and draw plants, use and combine media and include description and memory notes - resulting in a unique and individual journal.
We will draw from observation in and out of the studio (weather permitting), including field trips, drawing on site and taking photographs.
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 end of 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"x17")
- Set of coloured pencils (Polychromes)
- Some markers (Tombow or Copic for example with fine and brush tip)
- 3 Fine line pens (0.8, 0.7, 0.5) black
- Pocket set of water colours and a few brushes (round, small and medium size)
- F, HB, 2B, 3B pencils
- 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.