Love botanical painting? On this channel, you’ll find quick, practical tips to use in your nature journal to improve your botanical painting skills. My teaching style simplifies complex botanical subjects and watercolour techniques to help you become a more confident botanical painter—and enjoy nature journaling even more.
My name is Laura, and I am a botanical artist from Vancouver Island, Canada. My love for plants started at an early age and continues to influence my watercolour botanical art, nature journaling and teaching today. I have a diploma with distinction in Botanical Painting from the London Art College and a diploma from the U.K. Society of Botanical Artists.
My work mostly focuses on my nature journal, which documents native plants each month of the year through detailed watercolour and ink illustrations, notes, writings, and diagrams. If you would like to learn more about me and my artistic journey, you can also visit my website: www.laurawatsonart.com
Laura Watson
Hi friends! I have an exciting art giveaway happening on instagram! ENTER HERE: www.instagram.com/reel/DZkoBEBgX4o/?igsh=amV3YW5hZ… visit the post to enter to win a massive painting set from meeden art! We are giving away 2 of these "everything you need for painting" sets.
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Throwback to my June Country Diary title page 🌿 Early summer foliage and meadow flowers fill me with joy! Check out the June Country Diary video here: https://youtu.be/rIa3U1jGHik?si=GBAam... June is named after Juno, the Roman goddess of marriage and women.
#CountryDiary #NatureJournal #EarlySummer #BotanicalArt #FieldSketching
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🌿 Spring Sale is Here! 🌿www.thewatercolourgarden.com/bundles/the-watercolo… - Use code SPTWG25 for 25% off Lifetime Access to The Watercolor Garden for a limited time! Learn botanical watercolor, nature journaling, and paint with me at your own pace inside our growing library of classes. 🌸✨
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Please HELP! For the June full length class in TWG, I was going to post the buttercup class, but now I've been bewitched by the beauty of shooting stars! A childhood favorite of mine. What plant should be the featured native plant class for June!?
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Here is my page of final drawings from the Spring Botanical Drawing Challenge. I hope they inspire you! I will add a little written info about each flower to complete the page.
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Day 5 of the Botanical Drawing Challenge is Chocolate Lily, Fritillaria affinis, a unique native wildflower known for its rich mottled petals and nodding bell-shaped blooms. Today we’ll focus on observing the elegant flower structure, including the curved petals, delicate anthers, and the mottled markings that makes this plant so distinctive in spring meadows and coastal grasslands. Sign up here to get access to all the step by step drawing guides - laurawatsonart.kit.com/1d8ab90d1d
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Day 4 of the Botanical Drawing Challenge is Meadow Buttercup, Ranunculus acris. Today we’ll focus on drawing just the flower, paying close attention to the bright yellow petals, the cluster of tiny anthers and filaments in the flower center, and the simple structure of this cheerful spring wildflower. Join the challenge for FREE here: laurawatsonart.kit.com/1d8ab90d1d
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For day 3 we are drawing Naked Broomrape (I share more about that crazy name in the full-length class). This is a tiny flower that I have enlarged to match the composition and make it easier to draw. This is a great practice for drawing a flower that invloves foreshortening* and an off center flower angle. Join the challenge for FREE here: laurawatsonart.kit.com/1d8ab90d1d
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Day 2 of the Botanical Drawing Challenge is here! 🌿
Today we are drawing shooting stars! Join the challenge here to get access to the FREE printable guide with more images. laurawatsonart.kit.com/1d8ab9...
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Day 1 of the Botanical Drawing Challenge is here! 🌿
Today we are drawing Camas, Camassia quamash, a beautiful perennial wildflower native to western North America. check out the drawing progression images and join the challenge here to get access to the FREE printable guide. laurawatsonart.kit.com/1d8ab90d1d
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