Katie’s Sketchbook Safari isn’t just about animals, it’s also about the environment in which these creatures live, from fabulous trees such as the sausage tree (which has seed pods that could knock you unconscious if one fell on your head) and baobabs, to the grasses, reeds, and waterlilies.
Have you ever taken the time to stop and look at the way a grass curls, the different textures of leaves, the different colors of the top and underside of a waterlily leaf? The way the changing sunlight changes the greens in the landscape from yellow-greens to blue-greens?
Katie not only draws your attention to these things, but will show you how to get the colors ‘right’. You’ll learn the color theory you need to build up the colors layer by layer until you’ve the intense, rich colors that come only with glazing (rather than mixing colors on a palette). You learn about plant structure, the life cycle of a plant. How to rehydrate a dried-up bug so you can pull out its wings without breaking them.
