Botanical Illustration - Luscious Fruits in WatercolourCourse Full
Tutor: Jackie Isard SBACourse 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
Jackie Isard is an award-winning botanical artist having won a Gold medal at RHS in 2022 on her first attempt. She is passionate about painting and teaching. Based in Bristol, her delicate watercolours are much admired for their intricacy and detail. She teaches a regular Saturday group in Bristol and runs workshops with Society groups in the South West, Wales, Gloucestershire and other venues across the UK. She was a graphic designer by trade but has now chosen a new path in life. She is a self-taught artist, passionate about plants and the beauty of nature and enjoys watercolour as her favoured medium. 'Nature is so beautiful and it gives me such pleasure capturing it on paper.'
In 2022 Jackie completed her RHS exhibition entry entitled ‘Wet Meadow Wildflowers ~ their pollinators and as food plants’ and won Gold medal. Jackie is passionate about wildflowers, pollinators and nature preservation which is why she chose this theme for her RHS exhibition. Two of these paintings are now held in the RHS Lindlay Library and The Shirley Sherwood Collection, two others in a private collection. More recently, her painting called 'Vessels of Life' is being exhibited at The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, USA. Jackie posts regularly on her Facebook and Instagram pages (links below) showing images of her work and process.
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 |
Jackie Isard was really lovely and patient. Excellent tutor! Learnt so much during these two days! Thank you.
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!