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Do you want to learn about specific topics and techniques or supplement your learning by developing your skills. If so scroll down the page to see the full range of tutorials available. Botanical Art Online has a new range of affordable tutorials that may be just what you are looking for. These non-assessed tutorials are delivered via dedicated web pages with video tutorials with detailed written instruction as downloadable PDF documents. Once purchased you keep access indefinitely and can take the tutorial at any time and revisit it whenever you like, also benefitting from annual updates in materials. 

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IMPORTANT: if you purchase a tutorial using a Paypal email address which is different from the email you want the tutorial password delivering to, please send an email to info@botanicalart-online.com providing the correct details. If for some reason the email hasn't arrived within the hour, please check your spam folder in case the email went there because occasionally some email settings block such emails, if you can't find it please contact me using the the same email.

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Keep an eye out for the new new mini tutorials, available for a limited number of participants

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January  30th  - February 4th Butterfly Tutorial cost £20 ENDED - Available for those who booked for 3 months 

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March 8th -  March 15th Painting Feathers on Paper and Vellum Cost £20 AVAILABLE NOW

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April  April 7th Painting a birds egg and nest on coloured paper £25

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Mounting vellum on to board - date to be confirmed

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Available Tutorials

Tutorial 1: Watercolour and Dry Brush Techniques 

Available now: Cost £55 

  • Do you struggle with patchy washes, ragged or hard edges, heavy flat paint or 'cauliflowering' effects?

 

  • Are you unsure about what dry brush techniques actually are and when and where to use them?

 

  • Perhaps you find it difficult to create any form and your painting is flat, lacking depth and saturation and doesn't really pop off the page as you'd like it to?

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  • Maybe you simply want to brush up on your watercolour techniques, learn new ones or to supplement learning?

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If any of the above apply to you then this could be just what you are looking for.

This non-assessed comprehensive tutorial provides simple guidance and instruction on the essential watercolour techniques used in botanical art. The same techniques can also be applied to many other natural history subjects too, such as insects and shells. The tutorial has 12 short instructional videos on various watercolour techniques including all of the washes and dry brush techniques as well as troubleshooting problems. In addition the demonstrations include topics such as creating and maintaining highlights, and crisp or soft edges are 2 longer videos showing how to put those techniques into practice by breaking the process down into a simple step-by-step approaches in a painting of small subjects, such as petals, leaves and fruits.

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  • The tutorial can be completed in your own time because there is no assessment

  • Suitable for all levels from complete beginners. 

  • When you sign up you will receive a password to access the web page on the start date

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Once purchased you will receive an automatic reply email with log in details, please check the spam folder if it doesn't arrive. If you have any problems or wish to use a different email than the one used for Paypal, please email info@botanicalart-online.com and we can send the log in information manually.

Don't forget to check email after purchase to receive log in details, also check spam folder 

Tutorial 2: Colour Mixing, Using the Primary Palette 

cost £55 Available Now  

  • Do you struggle with matching the colours found in nature and with understanding how primary colour mixing works? 

  • Perhaps you find it hard to understand what mixes to use for shade colours? 

  • Maybe you can't understand why you white and yellow flowers look dirty?

  • Or maybe you just can't achieve the vibrant colours in your reds, purples and other vibrants? 

  • Do your greens look the same or are the just lacklustre and flat?

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if you want to gain a better understanding of colour and how to use it in practice this tutorial can help you. Learn about colour theory and colour mixing as well as my own approach and palette choice, using primary colours. 

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As well as the basic colour wheel system, with complementary, harmonious and analogous colours etc. I've included practical demonstrations in 12 videos and written this tutorial to include my own favourite colour topics, which specifically relate to botanical painting, including:

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Mixing with a primary palette

My green and brown mixing system: using the light value of blue as the predictor colour

Why White isn't really White: soft and high light value colours

Keep it Clean, avoiding the dreaded 'botanical' grey and muddy mixes

Hot and Cold: colour temperature and why it's all relative 

Yellow, Orange and Red! How to keep it bright​

Rich Purples 

The dark side of the values: Black Mixes

Neutral Tint: Painting tints and shades

Seeing colour and tricks of the eye: Using underlying colours

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This tutorial includes: two downloadable PDF documents with over 10 exercises and 12 accompanying videos, showing how to make colour charts, wheels and paintings of actual subjects using different colours.  

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Once purchased you will receive an automatic reply email with log in details, please check the spam folder if it doesn't arrive. If you have any problems or wish to use a different email than the one used for Paypal, please email info@botanicalart-online.com and we can send the log in information manually.

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Don't forget to check email after purchase to receive log in details, also check spam folder 

Tutorial 3: Graphite: Perspective Drawing and Creating Form

Cost £55 Available Now

Is drawing from life difficult and perspective a mystery to you? 

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Do you struggle to create believable 3 dimensional drawings using shading? 

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If so this tutorial provides just what you need as it shows the techniques and process in the videos with written text to support. 

 

  • Explore materials and equipment that work best for tonal drawing and the differences between them.  

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  • Learn to make line drawings of leaves, flowers using perspective, by using a combination of measuring, observation and shapes. From simple line drawing to more complex subjects. 

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  • Understand the importance of good lighting on your subjects, learn about tricks of the trade,  how to set your subject  lighting and about using simple photography methods to help.

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  • Learn about the different shading techniques, where to use them, continuous tone, stipple (in graphite and ink), hatching and cross hatching, with examples. 

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  • Create form in your drawings using light and shade with graphite by understanding the approach to layering graphite.

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Suitable for all levels. This tutorial has 19 videos and a downloadable 16 page PDF with a range of exercises to carry out.

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Once purchased you will receive an automatic reply email with log in details, please check the spam folder if it doesn't arrive. If you have any problems or wish to use a different email than the one used for Paypal, please email info@botanicalart-online.com and we can send the log in information manually.

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