Botanical Illustration - Luscious Fruits in WatercolourCourse Full
Tutor: Jackie Isard SBA Fellow CBM RHS GoldCourse Code: 3224-03
Summary
Would you like to paint a luscious strawberry, an exotic fruit or some shiny berries? Patterns, textures and colour are common in fruits so it is a lovely subject to explore and refine your skills. I will teach you the techniques to create shine and fruit textures with watercolour. You will receive my helpful tuition throughout the two days. There are many fruits to choose from so please bring one or two of your choice with you.
Description
During our two days together, you will make accurate drawings and colour studies of your fruit. Then, after transferring it to your preferred hot pressed watercolour paper, begin painting.
- I will help you study your fruit and make key decisions about pigments to use and the detail needed in your drawing
- I will demonstrate techniques
- Your fruit can be anything from exotic or a general one. Something picked from your garden or from a supermarket. Even tomatoes are fruits!
Please bring with you
- Hot Pressed quality watercolour paper (roughly A4 or A3)
- Good quality full-bodied pointed tip brushes and a Billy Showell fine liner
- H Pencil or mechanical pencil with H lead (no soft leads please)
- Soft rubber, not a putty rubber
- Sharpener
- A piece of tracing paper 60gsm
- Flat ceramic palette or large white plate
- Some kitchen roll and old light-coloured face flannel
- 2 x water jars
- W&N pigment - suggestions are below but if you use other brands
- please bring along professional watercolour which is transparent
- or semi-transparent, no cadmiums or opaques, please
- Bring some fruits
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Winsor & Newton Professional pigment suggestions:
- Winsor Blue Red Shade
- Winsor Blue Green Shade
- Indanthrene Blue
- Quinacridone Red
- Scarlet Lake
- Permanent Carmine
- Permanent Rose
- Transparent Yellow
- New Gamboge
- Indian Yellow
- Transparent Orange
- Winsor Violet
- If you don’t have all of these or use a different brand then don’t worry, bring your normal transparent or semi-transparent pigments with you!
The following items can be purchased from your tutor
- Billy Showell Fine Liner £5
- W&N pigments – a squidge in a half pan £1
- H pencil £1
Level
This course is not really suitable for absolute beginners.
Course Location
Missenden Abbey
Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire HP16 0BD
Tutor
Jackie Isard SBA Fellow CBM RHS Gold
BOTANICAL & NATURE ARTIST • TUITION • AUTHOR
Jackie Isard, from Bristol UK, is a Fellow member of the Society of Botanical Artists and an RHS Gold medal winner. She is a self-taught artist and loves to paint botanical as well as nature subjects. Jackie loves to teach and prides herself on giving a lot of help and advice. Her work is very detailed and botanically accurate. Jackie has paintings held in the RHS Lindley Library, The Shirley Sherwood Collection and The Hunt Institute. Jackie became an SBA DLDC tutor in 2024. She teaches at venues around the UK and Southwest.
email address: jackieisard@googlemail.com
FB: https://www.facebook.com/jackie.isard
Instagram: @jackieisard
Web: https://www.jibotanicals.co.uk/
Monday to Tuesday
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Timetable
| Monday | |
| 9.15am | Students arrive (coffee available) |
| 9.30am | Teaching session |
| 12.45-1.45 | Lunch for all |
| 1.45-5pm | Teaching session |
| 6.45 for 7pm | Dinner for residents |
| Tuesday | |
| 7-9.00am | Breakfast for residents |
| 9.30am-1pm | Teaching session |
| 12.45-1.45 | Lunch for all |
| 1.45-5pm | Last teaching session |
My first course at Missenden Abbey, and I am hugely impressed! Everything was of high quality; the tuition, studio space, accommodation, delicious food and pleasant public spaces, all in a beautiful setting. Thank you!
Jackie Isard was really lovely and patient. Excellent tutor! Learnt so much during these two days! Thank you.