Composition with Botanicals

Composition with Botanicals

Workshop | Available

94 Stafford Ave. Manahawkin, NJ 08050 United States
TBD
Intermediate/Advanced
6/16/2025-6/18/2025
10:00 AM-2:00 PM EST on Mon Wed
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$175.00
Member Discount Available

Composition with Botanicals

Workshop | Available

Please Note:  This class meets on Monday, June 16 and Wednesday, June 18.  

Participants will learn key composition principles, make sketches exploring composition
structure and create one or more finished paintings or drawings.

The workshop will start with the instructor presenting examples and demonstrations, followed by a discussion of her composing process.   
Planning an artwork is an enjoyable exercise full of choices!

We will also cover making decisions about color and pattern and how they play important roles
in strengthening your composition.

This will be a fun, inventive workshop.

Note:  The instructor will bring fresh botanicals, also still life objects and photos as references, both
for her demo and for class members to use, if desired.  Also, participants may bring any fresh
botanicals, objects and photos that they prefer to use as reference material for their imagery.

  • Please Note:  This class meets on Monday, June 16 and Wednesday, June 18.  
  • Participants should bring their sketching and painting supplies including:

    Your preferred substrate such as canvas, or watercolor or drawing papers, 11x14 or larger

    A sketchbook or sketching paper, same size as your substrate

    Tracing paper pad, same size as your substrate

    Supplies you normally use such as brushes, paints, colored pencils, inks, etc

    Pencils such as HB, B, B4

    Erasers

    See Note above for reference materials

    Handy to have: ruler, scissors, tape, cell phone camera
Bethmann, Laura
Laura Bethmann

Laura Bethmann is a watercolor painter and printmaker who gardens and writes books.  Laura’s artwork is exhibited in galleries and museums. She presents workshops and lecture demonstrations for many organizations including universities, art centers and botanical gardens. An award-winning author, her books are published by Storey Publishing, North Adams, MA. Laura writes a column for the journal of The American Society of Botanical Artists.
She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Pratt Institute Graphics
Center, New York City; and Syracuse University, New York. Laura lives in southern New Jersey
with her husband Chris.