MOD EducationCourse sheet
Winter Twigs and Buds in Pen and Ink
- Season
- Winter
- Months
- December – February
- Medium
- Pen and ink
- Level
- Improver
- Lessons
- 15 recorded
- Running time
- 7 h 10 min
- Access
- 24 months
- Subject
- Horse chestnut, hazel, birch, ash and magnolia twigs
Kit
On the table
What the lessons use. You may own some of it already; the first lesson goes through it again.
- Fineliners 0.05, 0.1 and 0.3
- Bristol board or smooth cartridge
- A hand lens, ×10
- Twigs from a walk (cut a few cm, not branches)
Outcomes
By the last lesson you can
- Choose between hatching and stipple for each texture
- Draw bud scales and leaf scars at ×2
- Add a scale bar the way a herbarium sheet does
- Correct ink without starting again
Calendar
Where it sits in the year
- Jan — in season
- Feb — in season
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec — in season
Winter, December – February. Bare twigs, buds and evergreens: structure without distraction. The recordings stay open for 24 months, so you can wait for the plants.
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