Janie Pirie

ONLINE COURSE Step by step botanical art: colouring a garlic bulb

Fri 9 July 2021

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Garlic bulbs are generally overlooked by botanical artists because they are not very interesting. Pale, hardly any colour and relatively uninteresting. THINK AGAIN! They are beautiful. The colouring is delicate, pretty and subtle. The shading has to be carefully worked to show the shape of the cloves beneath the fine, papery skin. Then, that papery skin, when dried out, cracks and peels, adding so much extra interest to the illustration. Fine ridges have to be shown, together with delicate gradations of colour. Then add green shoots emerging from the cloves and you have a subject perfectly formed and ready to test your coloured pencil skills.

Janie will take you through every step of the colouring process using just a few colours. The result will be a piece of work you can be proud of. Suitable for intermediate level. A list of materials you will need to provide will be emailed to you once you have booked your place.

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 has illustrating 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.

Suitable for beginners or for those wanting to brush up on their techniques.

Cost: £40