Workshop :: Seeing Color in the Garden with Lorene Edwards Forkner

Color is about seduction. It is both a delightful gift and one of nature’s most sophisticated tools to capture the attention of all living creatures.

In this workshop, Lorene will talk about color, it’s role in a pleasing landscape, and how her daily practice, which she posts on Instagram @gardenercook, has introduced an expansiveness to the way she views the world. Following this introduction, participants will participate in a hands-on exercise using watercolors to record colors found in fragments of the natural world, a tiny blossom, a leaf, or a twig. This is not botanical illustration, but as an exercise in learning to see with fresh eyes and an opportunity to slow down, focus, and savor the season.

Following this brief introduction, using supplied materials, participants will create a nature-based color study.

Color kit materials include:

• Instructional handout
• Watercolor dot card of 7 sample hues
• Craft brush
• 6” x 6” watercolor paper for finished color study
• Additional test strips of watercolor paper
• An original 4” x 4” color study painting and test swatches by Lorene