June 27 | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Drawing from Nature: Songbirds
A Workshop with Watercolor and Ink
Saturday, June 27
9 AM – 12 PM
$52 General Public / $47 VINS Members
*Join us for one class or the whole series. Sign up for multiple sessions and get a $5 discount on all classes. Use discount code MULTI26 in your cart.
More Drawing from Nature Classes:
July 11 – Dragonfly
July 25 – Loose Landscapes
August 22 – Butterflies
September 19 – Hawks
Join us in the Songbird Aviary for active gesture drawings of songbirds. Attempting quick and numerous sketches helps improve visual instincts, and will help participants create more realistic drawings in nature journals and sketchbooks. Along the way, learn about songbirds of the northeast; why do some songbirds migrate, are feeders helpful or harmful, and what can you do to enhance songbird habitat in your own yard? In the last hour of the workshop, you will begin a more finished work on a songbird from your study.
Drawing, sketching, and watercolor experience are not necessary, all skill levels welcome.
Participant Details:
Spend a full day at VINS. Purchase discounted admission to the VINS Nature Center for $5. Discount available only to registered participants on the day of the workshop.
This workshop is designed for adults 18 and up. Interested youth 10 and up may participate with an adult. No registration fee required for an adult accompanying a youth participant unless the adult also plans to participate in the workshop.
Suggested Materials:
- A water bottle
- A high-quality journal with heavyweight, mixed media, or watercolor paper
- HB pencil or mechanical pencil,
- An eraser
- Micron pen size 01 and/or 005
- Optional: your preferred art medium such as watercolor, gouache, or colored pencils
Instructor Bios:
Cynthia Moulton
Cynthia finds that observing and recording in a field journal enhances our engagement with the natural world. Teaching courses in ecology, animal diversity and biological illustration at Castleton University for the last 25 years has allowed her and her students to explore science through pen and ink, graphite and colored pencil.
Lois Moulton
Lois has been passionate about science illustration for years, creating numerous personal nature journals from her travels and time outdoors. As an educator at Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Massachusetts, she has been incorporating art as a tool for observation into her science classes since 1995. Lois specializes in watercolor and pen & ink.