Event Details

Pre-Requisites: Botanical Drawing, Color Theory, and Beginning Watercolor or equivalent experience. Equivalent experience must be approved by the instructor prior to registration.

GES: BI, 10, elective*

*This class provides 10 hours of elective credit toward the Botanical Illustration Certificate Program.

Supplies: Watercolor – your preferred artist-grade brand in primary colors and sepia. A ceramic or “Corelle” plate for mixing. Brushes – sizes 2, 4, and 0. Optional for this course – Colored pencils, artist-grade. Faber-Castell Polychromos preferred. If watercolor pencils are used, Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer contain the same pigments as Polychromos.
Paper – good sketch paper >90 lbs, good watercolor paper>140Lbs, preferably HP; tracing paper.

This course takes place over 1 Wednesday & Friday from 10 am – 3:30 pm:

• September 24
• September 26

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

A life-long art enthusiast, Gail Goodrich Harwood has focused on botanical art for the last 15 years. After completing a one-day class at LGBG in 2009 with Lara Call Gastinger, she was “hooked.” Gail completed her LGBG Certificate in Botanical Illustration, followed by a year-long colored pencil course with Wendy Hollender. She has since studied further with Wendy and her team and with Ann Swan in the U.K. She has also studied watercolor and pen and ink with other world-class botanical artists. Gail has served as President of the Botanical Art Society of the National Capital Region, as board member and officer of the American Society of Botanical Artists and was a founding member of the Central Virginia Botanical Artists, an ASBA Circle. She has exhibited art widely across the mid-Atlantic in both juried and individual shows. Her line drawing was selected for the National Cathedral’s coloring book. Gail also serves as editor of the quarterly publication of the Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs and is a floral designer for the VMFA’s Fine Arts and Flowers event.

Banner image credits: Gail Goodrich Harwood