Thursday and Friday, October 9 and 10, 2025
10 am–3 pm
$145 for Members/$175 for Non-Members
Prerequisites: Watercolor I and 2, Colored Pencil 1 and 2
Discover how to use watercolor and colored pencil together, layering to create a single botanical piece with instruction from Melinda Thompson Meyers. Learn to combine the two techniques to enhance each other: underpainting to add depth, and pencils on top to add detail and texture. Artists will work on methods to enhance the appearance of vegetables, fruits, and leaves.
It would be advantageous to have your subject already sketched on watercolor paper before class.
Advance registration is required.
Materials
Paint (These are suggested colors, feel free to substitute your preferred equivalent colors/brands.)
- watercolors
- Windsor lemon
- Windsor blue (green shade)
- cobalt blue deep (or a preferred deep blue)
- permanent rose
- scarlet lake
Brushes
- watercolor sizes 2, 3, and 4
Colored Pencils
Paper
- watercolor hot press 140#
- tracing paper
Fruit or Vegetable
- one or two pieces of fruit (apple, fig, grapes) or vegetable (tomato, squash, eggplant) with leaf or green stem, or a photo of the corresponding leaf
Meet Your Instructor
Having a lifelong interest in observing and recording nature, Melinda Thompson Meyers enjoys continually refining, exploring, and expanding her interest in the Botanical arts.
Melinda has been a working designer and illustrator with a background in children’s clothing design, textile design, illustration, painting, photography and graphic design. She holds a BFA from Syracuse University.
