Where can you learn how to do botanical art from life?

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Where can you learn how to do botanical art from life?

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When I dropped out of art school, my learning curve accelerated, because I gave myself the kind of assignments I really wanted, such as trying to understand botanical forms by painting them from direct observation on living plants.

As far as I knew around 1980 in Los Angeles, no art school was teaching botanical painting from life, so I had to figure it out on my own.


(Link to Instagram post) These studies became part of the book "The Artist's Guide to Sketching, 1982.

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Now there actually are a couple of schools devoted to the artistic study of plants, though of course at the moment they're closed with the Covid-19 precautions. One of them is in New York at the NY Botanical Garden, and another is in Denver at the Botanic Gardens. The Rhode Island School of Design has a Nature Lab, from which students can borrow specimens to study.

Video tutorials
"Gouache in the Wild" (Download on Gumroad)
“How to Make a Sketch Easel” (DVD)
Flower Painting in the Wild
More info on gouache gear
Gouache Materials List
Watercolor Materials
Books
Color and Light: A Guide for Realist Painters:
Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist
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