Learn how to use colored pencils to portray plant subjects!
Join the Washington Native Plant Society for this course that is offered virtually via zoom, with plenty of opportunity for personal review and instruction.
This 7-week fundamentals botanical drawing in colored pencil course will cover the basics of working with your medium, color theories, and a variety of colored pencils techniques including layering, blending, building saturation with luminosity while incorporating the observation techniques and elements of botanical illustrations. This is a new course, Colored Pencil II, is intending to take previous students to the next levels with more advanced techniques in using the color pencil medium. Colored pencils are fun, forgiving, and versatile medium and can be refreshing change for watercolor painters or graphite artists or used in a mixed media works. Expand on the beginning lessons with this next level course with Crystal Shin.
Online virtual workshop - Once registered, students will receive the zoom links to participate in the class online. Recordings are provided for each session for a limited time.
To prepare for the class, please download the supply list in the table. It will also be emailed to you when you register.
Due to new laws in Washington State, non profit workshops and presentations are now considered retail products and are subject to sales tax. Please note tax will be charged on your registration.
Registration Closes March 10, 2026
Base Price$275.00
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Crystal Shin, Botanical Artist and Scientific Illustrator: Crystal studied botanical illustration at Gage Academy of Art and the Center for Urban Horticulture, and earned Scientific Illustration Certificate from University of Washington. She worked as a primary illustrator on the second edition of “Flora of the Pacific Northwest” at the University of Washington Herbarium from 2015 to 2018, generating 882 new illustrations. She also illustrated new species for botanists at the herbarium for their research publications. Crystal is a Natural Science illustrator as well. She illustrates fossil drawings for a paleontologist at the Burke Museum. She is passionate about serving science as an artist. She loves working on any nature subjects found in flora and fauna. She works in graphite, pen and ink, color pencils, and watercolor. View her online portfolio at https://www.crystalshinart.com.