Monday, June 21, 2021

Workshop Week: How to Draw Any Flower

 


This workshop taught by Shayda Campbell was a lot of fun. She broke down  drawing flowers (daisy, marigold, and lily of the valley) into steps which were very easy to follow. She used simple materials: a pencil for drawing a rough and a thin and thick line permanent marker such as the Micron Pigma pen. The larger or thicker to outline and the thinner or smaller to add detail. I completed this workshop in my Canson Mixed Media journal which is on a 90 lb. paper. She used a size .04 and a .02 Micron. I didn't have a .04 (or couldn't find it) so I used a .03 and a .01.

Shayda also had a larger project to complete illustrating all 12 birth month flowers to be used as the illustration for a wall calendar. She provided free calendar sheets to download. I wasn't interested in this part of the project.

22 comments:

  1. Nice CJ. Your flowers are beautiful.

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  2. Sounds like a fun course. Love your flowers! Have a great week, Valerie

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  3. Such delicate leads! The flowers were good choices, weren't they, offering such different types of leaf and flower.

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    1. There are lots of floral workshops. This was pen and ink. She also did the other 9 birth flowers for the year. I didn't get that far 😺

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  4. WOW! Those are great drawings! Call the Audubon society! My 'botanicals' always look like something you would find growing after a nuclear disaster....lol. :-/

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    1. These aren’t real botanical drawings. She said a sort of a cross between real and stylized

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  5. I have both .03 and .01 Micron Pigma pens, but mine don't make anything that even resembles those amazing flowers you created with yours. I guess it's NOT the pens, but the pen holder! These are stunning.

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  6. And That Is What You Came Up With??? They Are Beautiful Flowers - Well Done

    Cheers

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    1. The workshop was just like paint by number and very easy to end up with a successful drawing

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  7. looks like a fun workshop. I love flowers and especially i follow a lot of botanical illustrators on Instagram. I would have enjoyed that.

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    1. She has a bunch of tutorials on YouTube. Look for Shayda Campbell.

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  8. Your flowers look great :)

    All the best Jan

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  9. Your flowers look lovely. But I think if I tried to follow her instructions, mine would still come out looking like a child's scrawl.

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    1. I don't think you give yourself enough credit

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  10. Beautiful! I have the same pens as you! Big Hugs!

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    1. The Micron Pigma pens are the best. I love all the sizes and they last forever.

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