This three day course will introduce a variety of pen and ink techniques used in botanical illustration.  Day one covers line drawing, how to vary lines, a chance to draw in the garden, and the opportunity to complete a couple of line drawings of leaves or full plants.  Day two covers stippling, representing areas of shadow with lots of tiny dots.  It’s time consuming but the results can look amazing.  Day three shows how you can put watercolour on top of completed line or stippled pen and ink illustrations.  By the end of the course you’ll be confident to use any of these techniques, either in plant illustration or in any other art you produce. Throughout the workshop Lizzie will be on hand doing demonstrations, teaching, and giving one-to-one advice and tips.

This course is suitable for all, although a little experience of using watercolours might be helpful.

Lizzie Harper is a free-lance natural history and botanical illustrator working in watercolour, pencil, and pen. She’s the illustrator of “The Hedgerow Handbook” and “Foraging with Kids, and her work is in “The Bumper Book of Nature “ and HarperCollins Flower Guide.  She has also worked on flower identification charts for Field Studies Council, and illustrations for the Welsh Botanic Gardens. She works in her garden studio in Hay on Wye where she lives happily with a long-suffering husband and two lively children.