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Richmond - Royal Botanic Gardens, Richmond TW9 3AB, UK
Interested in trying your hand at botanical drawing but unsure where to start?
Our three-day course for beginners will teach you the basics in the beautiful setting of Kew Gardens. 
Pen and ink techniques are essential for producing botanical illustrations for publication.
We will explore how to prepare accurate drawings to scale, and how to apply different methods of ink drawing to communicate the essential forms and character of plants clearly and beautifully.
As well as learning drawing technique, you will study simple leaves and flowers, and find out about plant structure and terminology.
About the tutor 
Lucy T Smith is a freelance botanical artist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
She has received many awards for her work, including the 2004 Jill Smythies Award for Botanical Illustration from the Linnean Society of London.
She won second prize in the Margaret Flockton Award for Scientific Illustration, at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney (2005), as well as Highly Commended awards in the 2005, 2006 and 2008 competitions. She has also received two Gold Medals from the Royal Horticultural Society.
As well as her freelance work, Lucy produces paintings for private commissions and exhibitions.

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Botanical pen and ink: BeginnersRoyal Botanic Gardens, Richmond TW9 3AB, UK