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Botanical Focus: Intensive Workshop with Beverly Allen

Botanical Focus: Intensive Workshop with Beverly Allen

Grootbos Florilegium

Botanical Focus: Intensive Workshop with Beverly Allen

Date: 2 - 6 September 2024
Cost: R6500 per person (tuition fee includes a light lunch, but not accommodation)
Venue: Forest Lodge Conference Room, Grootbos Private Nature Reserve

Join us for a five-day intensive workshop to build watercolour skills for botanical painting on paper. Enjoy demonstrations of drawing and painting techniques from initial washes and layering to dry brush detail and finishing. Working on one subject, there will be an emphasis on close observation and accurate drawing from life. Explore subtle variations in colour achieved through mixing and layering to create tonal changes indicating form, and learn the importance of light in rendering textures and creating three-dimensional paintings.

Suitable for: Intermediate to advanced students, or those with drawing skills and experience in other media.

 
About Beverly Allen

Beverly Allen is a renowned botanical artist from Australia, actively participating in international exhibitions with work in many prestigious private collections. With a background in graphic design, she shifted to botanical art in 1997 and was awarded a gold medal at the Royal Horticultural Society botanical art exhibition in 2007. She has contributed to HRH King Charles’s Highgrove and Transylvania florilegia and co-founded the Florilegium Society at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. Beverly has served as president of the society and continues to be actively involved in its committee. She is an Honorary Member of the Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society and the Botanical Art Society of Australia and is a Patron of the Hampton Court Palace Florilegium Society.

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Botanical Focus: Intensive Workshop with Beverly Allen

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