October 29 – November 1, 2021
New monthly , new year, new beginnings……
I am very happy to announce details of in- person and online workshops coming in October and November.
Join me in our spacious studio in the art and design district of El Poblenou, Barcelona to paint the warm rich colours of the flowers and fruit of a bountiful autumn.
Course Outline
We will spend from 9 am to 3.30 pm each day learning, practicing and applying the skills required to make a botanical watercolour painting.
- Observational, measured drawing and composition to bring movement and life to your painting.
- Exploring the nuances of colour
- Watercolour painting with wet and dry and everything in between painting techniques
- Reflect on the personal process of your painting, to further enrich your learning experience.
By the time you leave you will have enhanced your skills and will have new confidence in moving your botanical painting to new levels of competence.
Registration Contact
Laura Alonso is the person to contact at our base in Barcelona. She will be happy to fill you in with all the details required to register.
Laura Alonso: lauraalonso27@gmail.com
Following registration Laura will send you a simple list of required materials. Before the workshop, Laura will send you detailed workshop notes available in English and in Spanish along with other supporting documents to help you prepare for your visit to Barcelona.
September……New Beginnings
September is feeling like a new start, a tentative start… but one with more of a tangible sense of confidence and bravery than we have experienced for a while. My dear friend and fellow artist, Despina Mitselou from the island of Skiathos, Greece, yesterday shared the Skiathos tradition of celebrating the New Year at the start of September by throwing a pomegranate on the floor of their homes to bring health and happiness.
‘Bountiful – Punica granatum ‘Nana’ captures the pomegranates as I saw them growing on a tree in El Poblenou, Barcelona, where I was last teaching botanical art during autumn 2019. I just couldn’t take my eyes from the jewel like seeds glistening in these luscious fruits. Having completed numerous sketches in situ and taken lots of colour notes to record details, I began to work on the painting back in my studio at home in Ireland.
It was a work in progress over the long months throughout 2020 when all of life had changed for us all.
It brought me to the warmth and colour of the streets of Barcelona and the rolling hills and turquoise waters of Skiathos, Greece where I first fell in love with these abundant trees . It brought me to the warmth of the people I’ve met in these places.
It was a place of joy and solace as I worked in my studio listening to stories on the radio of sickness and death – of resilience, togetherness and hope. It was a place of bounty and focus, a beckoning force taking me to a place apart when there was nowhere else.
Online Workshops – Autumn, 2021
Workshop 1, October 8 and 9, 2021
Warm, Rich and Deep 1.
Cost €150
Workshop 2, November 5 and 6, 2021
Warm, Rich and Deep 2.
Cost €150
Workshop 1 and Workshop 2 – Cost €280
Both workshops will be happening from 14.00 hrs to 19.00 hrs GMT each day to facilitate artists from the west coast through to east coast US and throughout Europe.
Following requests from artists living in Asia and Australasia, I will give an alternative option time wise for my next set of online workshops.
For online workshops, please contact me directly:
marydillonbotanicalart@gmail.com
Instagram: @marydillonartist
MARY DILLON - Botanical 