Weekly contents and dates:

Week 1: January 9, Understanding tools, light, Tonal Value (Gradation), light and shadow. Week 2: January 16, How to draw 3 major flower types. Measuring techniques for free hand drawing. Week 3: January 23, Perspective and foreshortened form 1 - Flower. Week 4: February 6, Perspective and foreshortened form 2 - Leaf. Week 5: February 13, Composition and how to create a scientifically informative botanical drawing.

The most sought-after drawing workshop year after year….

An Intensive course with lots of detailed technique demos, meaningful assignments and constructive feedback. Informative PDFs prepared by Kim will help students understand the drawing process naturally and logically. Kim’s deep understanding on the medium helps students experience the whole drawing process from a completely different perspective. Many students from the past workshops told that they went through a breakthrough moment via this course.

PDF and Zoom link will be emailed the day before of each session. Classes will be recorded for students to review. 5 Thursdays, 10 am - 1 pm, CT, Fee: $310. For registration, Click Here

You Can and Should Control Everything! Watercolor paintings in general look loose and spontaneous, which is the charm of the medium. When it comes to a traditional botanical art/illustration style, however, it is far from being loose and spontaneous. Perfect renderings including ‘clean-but-not-hard’ edges, soft blending and gradation, accurate descriptions of the plant subject in shape, color and texture, etc are critical to create a botanical artwork of good quality.

In this series of three courses, Heeyoung Kim will guide the students with simple, visual, logical and scientific explanations about watercolor painting process, which will help them internalize the techniques naturally.

Suitable for beginners and those who are still not quite sure about how to handle all the watercolor materials and techniques, even after some experiences.

PDF and Zoom link will be emailed the day before of each session. Classes will be recorded for students to review. 3 Thursdays for each course, 10 am - 1 pm, CT. Each course: $190. Register for all 3 courses and get 10% discount ($513). For registration, Click Here and select the option.

Course Contents and Dates

Course 1: April 3, 10 & 17. Fundamentals of watercolor painting. Tools and how they interact under the artist’s control, and how to achieve 3 dimensionality

Course 2: May 1, 8 & 15. Focus on flowers. Practice: Achieving translucency, 3 dimensional form building though smart uses of color temperature. Rich and intense color… edge control and more.

Course 3: June 5, 12 & 19. Leaves with linear and net veins. Intuitive green mixing, painting leaves with various venation types

Furthering Drawing Skills, Graphite, March 13 & 20, Zoom

Color Translation and Value Relationship, Aug 2 & 9, Zoom

Learning about Bees: Anatomy…

All about Butterflies

The First Step toward Bird Painting

Continuing Study Group to Develop Independent projects…

The courses in this section are designed for students who want to explore regional naive flora and fauna with broad ecological themes to create their own independent projects with Heeyoung’s instructions.

Who’s eating what? Who needs that? What’s the ecological role of that plant? Most of Heeyoung’s painting subjects for this series are developed from these questions. Students will choose the same or similar native plants and associated faunal elements with advice/recommendations from Kim. Habitats are often included in the context.

Heeyoung’s compositions are usually large and complex, but students adopt the complexity to suit their skill level or time they can devote for painting. Students can participate in this courses regardless of their regions and study their native plants using Kim’s instructions.

Each project: 4 weeks, 10 am - 1 pm, CT. Fee: $250 Click for Registration

Project 1, 2025: Tiny Superstar, Piping Plover

• Jan. 21, 28, Feb. 11 & 18

• The tiny shore bird, piping plover, is one of the most beloved birds among birders and conservationists alike. ….

Project 2: Learning a Variety of Shore Birds

• March 25, April 1, 15 & 22

• After the first step toward our study of shore birds through the adorable piping plover, we are ready to dive deep into the world of shore birds. It’s a new territory to us, but we will learn one by one in this workshop. Registration is open now.

• If you like to join as a new student in this ongoing program, contact Heeyoung, please!

Project 3: Lowering the Eye Level…

Aug 5, 12, 26 & Sept 9 (no class on Aug 19 & Sept 2)

Preparing for a new potential exhibition, we will study the life cycle of selected flora and fauna…. If interested, contact Heeyoung Kim, please! Click for Registrfaion

Project 4: To be announced

Project 5:To be announced

Project 6: To be announced