Botanical Illustration and close-up nature photography - children and adults

What will you learn? In our busy lives, in can be easy to look past a tree, a bit of lichen on some bark, or even a weed, but this workshop asks us to bring in the nature we find around our urban environments, and LOOK CLOSER. Using a simple clip-on macro lens on a smartphone camera, we’re going to zoom in to the nature we bring along, and discover other worlds!

By photographing our magnified bits of nature, we’re sure to see abstract shapes and spaces we never considered before: the inside of a Foxglove flower can look like an alien monster; a close-up of a flower stem can look like a creature from the sea; magnifying a poppy can look like a giant cake; and even a little bit of moss magnified can look like its own little city!

Once we photograph our magnified samples, we’ll paint and…