Fungi: Drawing & painting mushrooms
Identify, draw and paint fungi in a three-day botanical art course.
Fungi exhibit an astonishing variety of shapes, colours, and textures, making them fascinating subjects for botanical art.
This three-day course will introduce participants to fungal structures, identification techniques, and artistic rendering using pencil, pen and ink, and watercolour.
A Kew mycologist (mushroom expert) will join the course to provide insights into fungus identification and ecology. You will have the opportunity to sketch specimens collected from Kew’s gardens and work from high-quality photographic references.
A materials list will be provided ahead of the course.
About the tutor
Lucy T Smith is a freelance botanical artist who has been based at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew for twenty-four years.
She has received international recognition and awards for her work, including the Jill Smythies Award for Botanical Illustration from the Linnean Society of London and two gold medals from the Royal Horticultural Society. Her scientific illustration work has been recognised by her receipt of First Prize in the Margaret Flockton Award for Scientific Illustration, from the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney.
Represented in the Shirley Sherwood collection.
As well as freelance work, Lucy produces illustrations and paintings for private commissions and exhibitions.
