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Illustrating Rosa Mundi

Join leading coloured pencil artist Janie Pirie for this step-by-step workshop

Event details

11 - 13 November 2025
10am - 1pm

Tutor:

Janie Pirie

Price

£110

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Location: Online

About the course

A chance to learn about using coloured pencils without the worry of having to draw something first! You will be supplied with a photograph taken by Janie, your tutor, together with a line drawing for you to trace and transfer. Instructions will be sent before the course. You will see demonstrations throughout the course to help you go through the process in the right order, helping you to create a beautiful rose illustration of your own.

PLEASE NOTE: A simpler illustration than the one shown will be used for the course

Suitable for beginners and intermediates

About the tutor

Janie Pirie is one of the UK’s leading coloured pencil artists and studied fine art at Northampton & Colchester Schools of Art. After graduating in Fine Art, she illustrated children’s books, women’s magazines and commissioned portraits, before moving her interest to drawing and illustrating plants. This work has earned her two RHS Gold Medals together with Certificates of Botanical Merit from the Society of Botanical Artists, of which she is a member.

Bookings for this course will close 7 Oct

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Please take the time to read our course cancellations and refunds policy.

Please note that once this course has been filled, you can email education@botanic.cam.ac.uk to be added to a waiting list.

 

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