Botanical Art Class

Six Online Sessions
June - October 2024

Six Zoom Classes ~ June 11th, July 2nd & 23rd, August 20th, September 10th, October 1st
4 – 6:30 pm on Tuesdays

Enjoy an exciting dive into the world of botanical art! Each class we will view botanical art from around the world to inspire us with the many different ways to illustrate the beauty of the plants. Together and between classes we’ll create images of plants we love using different styles from abstracted to detailed and illustrative. We will draw and paint from live plants as well as from photographs, dreams, journeys, and meditations with the plants. We will explore different mediums together from pen and ink, watercolor, charcoal, pencil, and acrylic paint. No previous experience necessary! Sage will guide you through beginning to advanced techniques of drawing and painting.

Have you always loved old botanical drawings? In this brand new class we’ll be diving into the magick realms of botanical art. Sage will bring her 30 years of drawing and painting, offering techniques to create with freedom, looseness, and joy! We will draw and paint outside in the garden with the plants, share our loose sketches, create finished works, and free inner creative blocks of self-judgement and fear.

Drawing is one of the best ways to spend time with plants in the wild! It brings greater appreciation and attention to details of plants our eyes usually miss, and helps immensely with plant identification. We will fill a sketchbook with loose drawings from the garden, create some detailed works, explore paint and color, abstraction, mark making, various materials, and botanical art through history. Let your creative self play in the realms of the plants!

Option to gather in person in Vermont Gaia gardens for sketching, drawing, and painting in the garden. Open to all regardless of previous experience, we will teach beginning techniques in various styles.

ALL CLASSES RECORDED FOR FUTURE VIEWING.
You can view Sage’s paintings on instagram @vermontartstudio