Below you’ll find information and resources for my Botanical Play Date Wildflower Journaling Event (June 8, 2025).
Our botanical ‘playdate’ will include:
- 🌸 A brief introduction to flower anatomy to help you draw them with more accuracy, ease, and confidence, using flowers from my garden.
- 🌻 I’ll demonstrate how I would organize a journal page using examples from local wildflowers near my home in Oregon.
- 📔 I’ll share some sketching and journaling prompts related to botany.
- ✏And finally, we will set aside some time to play on our own pages, or you can simply follow along as I complete mine!
How to Participate
- 📅 Register for the zoom event (June 8,2025,10-11 AM PDT).
- 🌼 Pick some flowers (wildflowers, garden flowers, or from the florist).
- ✍ Gather some simple art supplies (ones you can easily handle while participating in the workshop). You may also want a magnifying lens to appreciate the intricacies of your flower, a local wildflower identification guide,
- 🙋♀️ Bring your questions about botany and field sketching. Please also be willing to share your sketches and insights in our Zoom call, I don’t want to teach to an ’empty room’ with students sitting in the back of the class! Thanks for understanding.
Click orange links below to download resources
The resources below are PDF documents I created for you to download (and print if you wish). Please don’t feel obliged to use these, they are merely extra resources to deepen the value of the class.
- Common western wildflowers Reference Photos
- Nature Journal Page Recipe
- Botanical Anatomy for Field Sketching Guide
- Flowers with Different Numbers of Petals Reference Photos
- Daffodil Reference Images (for perspective drawing practice)
