Drawing from Nature Class 2: Pollinators and Good Garden Bugs A Workshop with Watercolor and Ink
Saturday, July 19, 2025 / 9 AM – 12 PM
General public: $52, VINS Members: $47
Registration required as space is limited. Register Today

Other Drawing from Nature class dates

• Saturday, August 16, 2025 – Predators of the Sky
• Saturday, September 20, 2025 – Fall Botanicals

We will begin this second class of our Drawing from Nature Series by exploring the summer wildflowers blooming in the VINS meadow. While outside, we’ll look closely at the diversity of pollinators visiting these blossoms and discuss identification techniques. Then, we’ll bring our references (both photos and specimens) indoors to experiment with brushstrokes and color. We will spend the rest of the workshop creating images in our nature journals.

Learn tips and tricks for drawing as well as for creating vivid pages that depict personal natural history experiences. Drawing, sketching, and watercolor, experience not necessary, all skill levels welcome.

This is the second class in our Drawing from Nature 2025 workshops. 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 MULTI25 in your cart.

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.

For more information, contact us at 802.359.5000 or info@vinsweb.org.