Workshop: Autumn Leaves in Watercolour

Autumn Leaves in Watercolour with Karen Green

Saturday 25th October 2025 10:30am – 4pm (lunch break 1 -2 pm) £65

All Materials will be provided and all abilities welcome.

Working directly from a selection of Autumnal Leaves, Karen Green, botanical artist, will guide you through observational drawing and watercolour techniques to create a finished illustration that reflects a botanical understanding of your subject and captures the beauty of the leaf.

Karen will ease you into the workshop with some playful watercolour exercises to create different textures and patterns using common household products and other more specific art supplies. Leading on from this, she will guide and support you to create an observational drawing with tips to aid drawing leaves with ease and offer ways of tackling how to paint veins. With one to one support and class demonstrations, you will use the learnt watercolour texture techniques, from wet-in-wet to ‘glazing’ and accurate colour mixing to create a finished painting.

During the session you will familiarise yourself with the materials and tools needed for botanical art and the techniques used, slowly building up layers of paint to create luminosity and depth.

About Karen:

Karen works as a Botanical Artist, painting flowers, fruits and vegetables. She paints with intricate detail, retaining the technical accuracy of the plant but placing emphasis on the aesthetics and artistry. She explores themes of femininity, loss and healing through the botany and life cycle of plants; flower language and their use in medicine, folk lore and religion.

After receiving a First- Class honours degree at The Arts Institute in Bournemouth, Karen went on to work as a Primary School teacher before resigning in 2011 to focus on her art career. She holds solo and shared exhibitions regularly and has been teaching botanical art workshops for over eight years.

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