DRAWING FUNDAMENTALS FOR BEGINNERS
An intensive course with detailed technique demos, meaningful assignments and constructive feedback. Informative PDFs prepared by Heeyoung Kim will help students understand the drawing process naturally and logically.
Week 1: Understanding tools, light, Tonal Value (Gradation), light and shadow
Week 2: How to draw 3 major flower types. Measuring techniques for free hand drawing
Week 3: Perspective and foreshortened form 1 - Flower.
Week 4: Perspective and foreshortened form 2 - Leaf.
Week 5: Composition and how to create a scientifically informative botanical drawing.
Week 1: Understanding tools, light, Tonal Value (Gradation), light and shadow
Week 2: How to draw 3 major flower types. Measuring techniques for free hand drawing
Week 3: Perspective and foreshortened form 1 - Flower.
Week 4: Perspective and foreshortened form 2 - Leaf.
Week 5: Composition and how to create a scientifically informative botanical drawing.
About Heeyoung Kim
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Known as ‘Wildflower Painter’, Kim paints and documents native plants in watercolor, graphite pencil and ink in a traditional/scientific way, yet with touch of modern edge with her keen sense of composition and mastery of the media she uses. Her numerous awards have proven her versatility in media. Her watercolors and graphite pencil drawing received 4 awards from New York International HSNY/ASBA (Horticultural Society of New York/American Society of Botanical Artists) including Best of Show (2012), RHS (Royal Horticultural Society London) Gold Medal (2012). Her three watercolors are included in Prince of Wales’s Transylvania Florilegium. She exhibited her ink illustrations at Margaret Flockton Award (2010, 2013), and 2 works in watercolor and ink at Hunt 13th International (2010). She had five solo exhibitions and exhibited in numerous international juried group exhibitions. Since its founding, HK Botanical Art Academy at Brushwood Center has become an incubator for the ancient art form in Chicago Metropolitan Area.
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