Course Outline

Class 1: Laying out flower petals, adding variety to petals while keeping them in the same family, shading petals, perspective and petal shapes on tilted flowers, depicting and shading roses, forming and shading bell-shaped “trumpet” flowers, shading to show depth in flowers, coils, and twists, creating and shading folds in petals, depiction of stamen emerging from flowers, and using flowers to fill difficult spaces.

Class 2: Using circles and ovals to draw flowers, adding interest to petal edges, using shading to create form, uniform shading vs. variation in line length and spacing, Lee’s “go-to” graver geometry, magnified details vs. normal eye distance viewing, how to show petals that cup toward or fall away from the viewer, cutting and shading roses, Western bright-cut flowers, cutting and shading flower stem.