Project Content:

Cycle 1 : Snails | Snail Anatomy, Sketching Snail Shells, Snails and tonal scales, Garden Snails.

Cycle 2: Slugs | Fun Slug facts, Slug Anatomy, Slug ID, Slug Folklore, Inky slugs, Slug colour swatching and Watercolour Slug study

Cycle 3: Beetles | Beetle Morphology, Beetle Anatomy, Beetle Sketching, Beetle Shapes and Beetle watercolour swatching

Cycle 4: Iridescent Beetles | Rose Chafer and Tansy Beetle ID, Sketching Rose Chafer and Tansy Beetle / Colour swatching, Tansy Beetle step by step in watercolour

Cycle 5: Spiders | What are arachnids? Spider Anatomy, Stories about spiders (folklore), Daddy Long Legs and False Widow Spiders, Inky winky spiders and webs

Cycle 6: Grasshoppers and Crickets | Grasshopper Anatomy, Grasshopper spiritual meaning & folklore, Field & Meadow Grasshoppers, Grasshopper Sketching and in depth pen and wash study.

Materials used (not included in project price) : 2B Pencil, blender / tortillion, basic pan pallete of watercolours, rough watercolour paper, Size 2 and 6 round brush, Sepia Fineliner, Black Fineliner (0.5) Walnut ink - or burnt umber, brush pen or brush & ink, Indian Ink (or acrylic ink) white coal pencil or gelly pen. Most of these materials are available in our Art Shop.

Additional paints used (not essential) - Indigo (or Prussian blue & black) Sap green, Undersea Green, Iridescent Green, Electric Blue (these are all Daniel Smith colours) Lemon Yellow, Gamboge Hue