Botanical Drawing Workshops

Do you love to draw and paint? Have you ever wanted to spend a day making drawings of plants, trees, leaves, flowers, seed pods and other wonderful parts of the environment? Then this workshop is for you! We will spend a day in my studio making drawings from life and exploring drawing techniques to capture the likeness of them including observational, gestural and blind-drawing, using line, tone, shape, negative space, as well as expressive gestural mark-making.

I will provide the materials that will make drawing so enjoyable - a range of hot-pressed, cold-pressed and weighted card, as well as some of my favourite materials and pigments. Along the way I’ll share some of the things I’ve found most helpful and enjoyable when drawing things from the natural world and will demonstrate a few of these.

By the end of the workshop you will have become knee-deep in drawings, conversations, and drawing encounters, and have experimented with a range of materials and techniques. You’ll leave with at least one gorgeous-frameable developed drawing to remember your time here by.

If you’ve had little or no experience with drawing then the January workshop will be best for you. And if you’re more adventurous with your drawing then the February workshop will be the one for you. . Each workshop is limited to 6 people, and I hope that you will find it to be a fun and meaningful time. Both workshops are aimed at adults [I hope to offer a children’s workshop sometime soon!]

Please email using the contact form to register your interest - Registrations close 29th November 2024

Saturday 25th January 2025, 10am-4pm [beginner]

Saturday 22nd February 2025, 10am-4pm [advanced]

Cost: $350 per person [Includes materials]

Location: Amanda Watson’s studio in Raglan [exact address given on registration]

{If there is not a full class then it’s possible that the workshops may be postponed]