Classes by award winning Botanical artist, Heeyoung Kim
Botanical Drawing and Painting for Beginners, 2024
Drawing Fundamentals: A foundational course for botanical Artists
The Most Sought-After Drawing Workshop Year After Year….
An Intensive course with lots of detailed technique demos, meaningful assignments and constructive feedback... Many students from the past workshops told that they went through a breakthrough moment via this course…Read More... Go to Class Listing
Dates: 5 Saturdays: May 4, 18, 25, June 1 and 8 (No class on May 11). 3 - 6 pm, CT, Fee: $310. For beginners and those who want to brush up basics and essential drawing techniques.
Watercolor for Beginners: 3 courses: Basic Techniques + Flowers + Leaves
Control the medium and tools and get confident in techniques…
Droopy watercolor might leave you baffled, but you can control it, once you understand the mechanics how tools and medium interact. Through these 3 courses, Heeyoumg Kim will guide the students with simple, visual, logical and scientific explanations about watercolor painting process... Each course: $190. Read more, go to Class Listing
Course 1: Fundamentals of watercolor painting. July 6, 13 & 2. 3-6 pm, CT
Course 2: Focus on flowers. Aug 10, 17 & 24. 3-6 pm, CT
Course 3: Leaves with linear and net veins. Sep 14, 21 & 28. 3-6 pm, CT
Special Series for Intermediate and Experienced Beginning Level
How To Improve Your Watercolor Painting Skills: 3 Workshops - Zoom
Topics requested by
students
This new series will cover the selected topics requested by my students from the previous 3 Pre-Studies for Eco-Botanicals. In order to get a good understanding on each topic, I will choose simple subjects for each workshop and focus on learning the foundational theory regarding that selected topic, and practicing techniques to achieve the goals.
All classes in this series will be Saturdays, 10 am - 2 pm, CT
Suitable for intermediate and advanced beginning level, and anyone who wants to improve painting skills in the selected topic. The class will be recorded for review. Time and fee are varied for each workshop. For detailed info for each workshop, go to Class Listing
Workshop 1: Value and Form, 2 sessions, June 22 & 29
Workshop 2: Painting Green Leaves, 2 sessions, July 27, Aug 3
Workshop 3: White Flowers with Leaves, 1 session, Aug 31
Materials list will be emailed after registration. Zoom link and PDF will be sent the day before of the class.
Advanced Watercolor: Botanicals in Ecological Context - Zoom
Continuing Study Group with Heeyoung Kim- Project 2, 2024
Want to develop your own collection and push the limit?
Students in this course explore regional naive flora and fauna with broad ecological themes to create their own independent projects with Heeyoung’s instructions. Each project: 4 weeks, 10 am - 1 pm, CT. $250
Advanced and advanced intermediate level
Project 2, 2024: Life around a Fallen Tree: Featuring spring ephemerals, mushrooms and Northern Flicker (April 2, 9, 23 and May 7)
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Intermediate and Advanced Beginner Level - Zoom
Eco-Botanicals: To be Announced . . . Currently Special series are offered…..
Creative ways to learn watercolor techniques
Saturday mornings, 10 am - 1 pm, CT, $250
Suitable for intermediate and experienced beginners
This course will start in May after “Winter Specials: Pre-Studies for Eco-Botanicals” is over. By finishing the pre-studies, students will become confident in working in complex compositions with faunal elements added to their botanical art/illustrations.
For those who want to participate in this workshop, Winter Specials are strongly recommended.
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Monday Open Workshop: In-Person
One-on-One Critique and Mentorship
Back to In-Person Class at Brushwood Center
This course is the unique feature of Heeyoung Kim Botanical Art Academy suitable for botanical artists who want to move forward in their projects/careers. Kim’s experiences help students … Learn More, Click Here
Award winning botanical artist as your mentor…
Award winning contemporary botanical artist, Heeyoung Kim has distinctive style of drawing and painting demonstrating her mastery of media she uses in traditional and scientifically accurate botanical art…. Learn More, Click Here
Meet the Artist: Heeyoung Kim
Botanical Artist, Instructor, designer, Native Plant Advocate
Kim is a professional artist who teaches, creates and exhibits prolifically with her focus on advocating ecological conservation through her art. She became the first living artist represented by a renowned natural history art gallery in downtown Chicago, Joel Oppenheimer Gallery. Read more about her at ABOUT from the main menu.
“When I first saw her work, I immediately recognized that she has the talent on par with the Masters that we represent- Basilius Besler, Priscilla Susan Bury, Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Dr. Robert John Thornton- to name a few.” — Joel Oppenheimer, president of Joel Oppenheimer Gallery
Represented by Joel Oppenheimer Gallery
Two Solo Exhibitions at J.O Gallery
Heeyoung is honored to be represented as the first and only living artist among masters the gallery represents. J.O Gallery is known with its devotion to the golden age of natural history art, from 17th through 19th centuries. Heeyoung is thrilled to see her works hung side by side with John James Audubon and Pierre-Joseph Redoute. Original works and J.O. Limited Editions are available at the gallery.
Solo exhibit 1: Heeyoung Kim: Native Plants of the Woods and Prairies, 2015
Solo exhibit 2: Heeyoung Kim: New Works, Orchid Watercolor Paintings, 2019
10 E. Ohio St. Chicago, IL 60611. Tel: 312-642-5300, Tree Studios Annex Building
To view or purchase Heeyoung’s original works and Joel Oppenheimer Limited Editions,
“When I first saw her work, I immediately recognized that she has the talent on par with the Masters that we represent- Basilius Besler, Priscilla Susan Bury, Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Dr. Robert John Thornton- to name a few. ”
Project 200: Documenting Wildflowers of Prairies and Woods
In the spirit of natural history artists in the past, contemporary botanical artist, Heeyoung Kim documents native plants of Midwestern USA (Project 200). Her exquisite and deftly painted compositions portray native woodland and prairie plants. Giving priority to rare and endangered species, she also paints common ones when they have high ecological values. To view the image bank of her paintings of prairies and woods, go Project 200.
