Last week I attended a Botanical Illustation Course at the
Eden Project. This was my second time doing a course there and this time it was a whole 5 days of drawing and painting, and learning a bit about plants.
The course started with us learning all about the different parts of plants and flowers to help make more informed drawings. We had tours of both the outside and tropical biomes from members of the horticultural team at Eden which were really interesting.
We began the final piece by choosing something to draw, there were plenty of interesting plant materials to choose from, I chose this Globe artichoke
(Cynara scolymus) because I love the colours and shape, plus I thought it would be achievable to complete a painting of this in the time. Next we made a scale drawing of the item, which we shaded in using graphite on some tracing paper. The original drawing was then transferred to the watercolour paper using tracing paper before being painted with watercolours.
Our teacher was the lovely
Laura Silburn who is a botanical artist working in Cornwall, and a Fellow of the Eden Project Florilegium Society, whos beautiful paintings we were able to view at the end of the course.
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| My completed Artichoke botanical watercolour painting |
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| Initial sketch of Artichoke |
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| Dissecting a daffodil |
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| Daffodil Ovary! |
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| Our Paintings |
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