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The Botanical Notebook

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A comprehensive online class featuring 3 hours of video containing instructional lessons and time-lapsed demonstrations plus 3 color-mixing tutorials and reference photos for everything ... all with personal written feedback sessions with the instructor, Christine Herron. Click here for a video preview of the course.


Finding inspiration from a variety of nature artists, students will create their own botanical notebook page filled the living beauty that surrounds them. Students will collect and observe a plant found in their own backyards and photograph, sketch and paint them in this low key and creative format. This course will allow students to further their drawing and watercolor skills while learning how to mix color intuitively, create an interesting page layout and hone their watercolor skills.


Participants take this class at their own pace with a weekly Zoom meeting with the instructor. If students want feedback they must be willing to take good photographs of their work and upload them to the classes pages.


Students will come away with a better understanding of...



  • watercolor materials and tools
  • keys to setting up an efficient up a work space
  • how to pack a kit for painting in the field
  • types of botanical notebooks or nature journals
  • tips for photographing botanical specimens
  • how to dissect flowers
  • sketching your specimen
  • mixing color intuitively
  • how to make a color “cheat sheet” for your painting
  • various watercolor techniques
  • the process of layering color
  • ways to add notations and observations to their notebooks


This is a six week online course for intermediate students who have some understanding of drawing and painting with watercolor. Click here for Materials List.



Instructor: Christine Herron

Members $150 / Non-Members $180

Online Course - Six Weeks

Dates TBD

Zoom meetings weekly


Week One: Materials & Inspiration

Materials Overview

Setting up Your Work Space

Out in the field


Week Two: Specimens & Sketching

Types of Notebooks

Collecting Your Specimen

Dissecting Your Specimen

Photographing Your Specimen

Sketching the Leaves


Week Three: Mixing Color & First Layers

Mixing Color Intuitively

Beginning Color

Mixing Greens


Week Four: More Layers & Mixing Browns

More Layers

Mixing Browns


Week Five: Sketching & Painting the Rhododendron Bud

First Sketch

Correcting the Sketch

Mixing Flower Colors

Painting the Bud and Flowers

Adding More Layers to the Bud

Turn Your Painting Upside Down

Finishing The Painting


Week Six: Labeling the Specimen

Parts of the Flower

Personalizing Your Page

Photographing Your Work

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