Pencil and watercolour
Autumn Fruit and Seed Heads
Rosehips, blackberries, conkers and honesty pods: shine, bloom and the papery light of a seed case.
£954
The catalogue
Courses, filed by season
12 recorded courses and 3 routes, kept the way a garden runs: open the drawer for what is growing now, or reach for a skill that does not wait for a season.
Autumn
September – November
Fruit, seed heads and the colours of a turning leaf.
In season now1 course
Winter
December – February
Bare twigs, buds and evergreens: structure without distraction.
1 course
Pen and ink
Winter Twigs and Buds in Pen and Ink
Horse chestnut buds, hazel catkins and birch twigs, drawn in line, hatching and stipple.
£627
Spring
February – May
Bulbs and first flowers, drawn before they go over.
2 courses
Coloured pencil
Spring Bulbs in Coloured Pencil
Snowdrop, crocus, daffodil and tulip, in the order they flower — layering and burnishing in coloured pencil.
£752
Pencil and watercolour
The Dissection Sheet: A Flower Taken Apart
A flower cut in half, its parts laid out and drawn at ×3, with labels — the page that makes a drawing botanical.
£838
Summer
June – August
Full flowers, colour and the long evenings to paint them.
2 courses
Watercolour
Petals in Watercolour: Washes and Glazes
Wet-in-wet, glazing and lifting on sweet peas and cosmos — the three techniques under every painted petal.
£893
Watercolour
The English Rose in Watercolour
A cupped garden rose from bud to full bloom: forty petals, pale pinks that stay clean, leaves and thorns.
£1,072
Any time
All year
Skills that do not wait for a season.
6 courses
Graphite pencil
First Marks: Learning to See a Plant
Measuring, contour and a ten-step tonal scale — the habits every later course is built on.
£503
Graphite pencil
The Leaf in Graphite
Venation, curl, twist and shine: eight leaves, from a flat beech leaf to a glossy holly.
£573
Pencil and watercolour
The Field Sketchbook
Ten-minute studies outdoors, colour notes in the margin, and pages you will still read in five years.
£664
Watercolour
Thirty Greens: Mixing Foliage Colour
Three yellows, three blues and a red to knock them back: a swatch book of greens that look like leaves.
£709
Watercolour
Drybrush Detail: The Last Ten Per Cent
Hairs on a stem, the bloom on a plum, a crisp edge: drybrush, the slow finish that turns a study into a piece.
£1,246
Pencil and watercolour
Composing the Botanical Plate
One species, its whole year on one sheet: layout, life cycle, scale, labels and preparing a piece to show.
£1,318
Routes
Several courses, bought together
The same recorded courses as above, in a sensible order and for less than buying them one by one.
3 routes
Route: From Graphite to Glaze
The beginner route in order: seeing, leaves in pencil, mixing greens, then your first painted petals.
Separately £2,678
£1,947
You save £731
Route: A Year in Four Seasons
Winter twigs, spring bulbs, the summer rose and autumn fruit — one course for each season, drawn as it arrives.
Separately £3,405
£2,786
You save £619
Route: The Complete Florilegium
All twelve courses, in a suggested order across eighteen months, ending with a plate of your own.
- First Marks: Learning to See a Plant £503
- The Leaf in Graphite £573
- Winter Twigs and Buds in Pen and Ink £627
- The Field Sketchbook £664
- Thirty Greens: Mixing Foliage Colour £709
- Spring Bulbs in Coloured Pencil £752
- The Dissection Sheet: A Flower Taken Apart £838
- Petals in Watercolour: Washes and Glazes £893
- Autumn Fruit and Seed Heads £954
- The English Rose in Watercolour £1,072
- Drybrush Detail: The Last Ten Per Cent £1,246
- Composing the Botanical Plate £1,318
Separately £10,149
£3,263
You save £6,886
Every course is a set of recorded video lessons, streamed, with access for 24 months from the day you pay. No live classes, no tutor feedback on your work, no certificate. The price is what you pay.