MOD EducationCourse sheet
Composing the Botanical Plate
- Season
- Any time
- Months
- All year
- Medium
- Pencil and watercolour
- Level
- Advanced
- Lessons
- 19 recorded
- Running time
- 11 h 30 min
- Access
- 24 months
- Subject
- A species of your choice, followed across a year
Kit
On the table
What the lessons use. You may own some of it already; the first lesson goes through it again.
- Hot-pressed paper, 300 gsm, A2 or half imperial
- Everything from earlier courses
- A sketchbook kept through the year
- Tracing paper
Outcomes
By the last lesson you can
- 1Plan a sheet in thumbnails before drawing
- 2Show bud, flower, fruit and seed of one plant
- 3Use scale, labels and white space like a plate
- 4Photograph and present finished work for an exhibition entry
Calendar
Where it sits in the year
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec
Any time: the subjects can be found or bought in every month, so start whenever suits you.
Next
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