Butterflies, Moths & Insects - fine detail and colour - NEW VENUE
Tutor: Jackie Isard SBA Fellow CBM RHS GoldCourse Code: 0626-05
Summary
Learn how to draw and paint beautiful butterflies and other insects in watercolour!
Description
These beautiful insects are full of texture, furry-ness, exquisite patterning and fabulous colours. Painting a butterfly or a moth will teach you so much about fine detailing and colour mixing with watercolour. I have some interesting colourful and shiny beetles too if you prefer. You will also have a chance to look at details under a microscope! Techniques will be demonstrated, and I will give you lots of help throughout the course. Choose your subject from my large selection of butterfly, moth and insect specimens. Included are notes of interest for you to keep.
Please bring with you
- Good quality HOT PRESSED WHITE (NOT CREAM) watercolour paper 140lb/300gsm, A4 (9inch x 11inch) size will be big enough.
- Cartridge or tracing paper (60gsm) for drawing your butterfly or moth before tracing onto your watercolour paper. *
- I will have a light pad available to use if you wish to transfer this way. If you do, bring along tracing paper 60gsm and a Unipin black fineliner 0.05 pen. I have trace and pens to sell if needed. *
- Full bodied pointed sable brush No. 2, 4.
- Billy Showell synthetic Fine Liner pointed brush. *
- Mixing palette or plate porcelain/ceramic.
- 2 water jars
- H pencil *, soft eraser *, sharpener.
- Kitchen Roll or Linen/Cotton cloth for brush cleaning and drying off.
- Winsor & Newton Professional watercolours *
- YELLOWS x 3
- Transparent Yellow
- Quinacridone Gold - now known as Transparent Gold Deep
- Indian Yellow
- REDS x 3
- Permanent Rose
- Quinacridone Red
- Permanent Carmine
- BLUES x 3
- Ultramarine (Green Shade) or French Ultramarine
- Indanthrene Blue
- Winsor Blue Red Shade
The following items can be purchased from your tutor
All items listed above with an asterisk (*) will also be available to purchase from the tutor at a small cost, supplies allowing.
Level
Intermediate to advanced - Watercolour experience is needed
Course Location
CIM Business Centre Cookham
Moor Hall, Cookham, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 9QH
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/
Saturday to Sunday
Enrol on this Course
- Payment by Deposit available during checkout
Timetable
| Saturday | |
| 9.45am | Students arrive |
| 10am-1pm | Teaching session |
| 1-2pm | Lunch for all |
| 2-5pm | Teaching session |
| 6.45 for 7pm | Dinner for residents |
| Sunday | |
| 7.30-9.30am | Breakfast for residents |
| 9.30am-1pm | Teaching session |
| 1-2pm | Lunch for all |
| 2-5pm | 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! Thank you.
Jackie Isard was really lovely and patient. Excellent tutor! Learnt so much during these two days! Thank you.