Art Workshop | Using Basic Botany to Inform Botanical Drawing
Date & Time
THIS IS A TWO-PART CLASS
Saturday, November 8, 2026 and
Saturday, November 15, 2026
This event is in the past.
Tickets
$175 per person for two-part workshop
Registration coming soon!
Location
Biology Greenhouse
Life Sciences Building
3747 W. Stevens Way NE
University of Washington Campus, Seattle
In this two-part class, students will learn basic botanical terms and plant parts to inform and inspire botanical drawing. The first hour of each class will be a lecture by Herbarium Collections Manager, David Giblin, where parts of the plant (i.e., plant morphology) are introduced and explained using a slide show and live plant materials. Students will spend the next two hours drawing those plant parts that best match their interests while receiving guidance and feedback from botanical illustrator, Crystal Shin. The first class will focus on vegetative plant parts including roots, stems, leaves, and the second class will focus on reproductive plant parts, including flowers and fruits.
Plants from the University of Washington Greenhouse will be used as drawing subjects. Graphite pencils, pen and ink, colored pencils and watercolor are all welcome to use for your drawing. Students may choose the medium that best suits their interests and drawing style.
About the Instructors
Crystal Shin is the primary illustrator for the Burke Herbarium’s Flora of the Pacific Northwest, 2nd edition. She illustrates for the Burke’s Herbarium and Paleontology collections, and her illustrations have appeared in various scientific journals. As a botanical artist working in colored pencil, she is drawn to capturing the luminous colors and details of plants. She excels at sharing knowledge with her students, teaching online and in person for botanical groups and gardens, art schools including Washington NativePlants Society, New York Botanical Garden, American Society of Botanical Artists.
David Giblin, Ph.D. is Herbarium Collections Manager and Research Botanist at the University of Washington Herbarium of the Burke Museum. David's research focuses on the distribution and diversity of the Pacific Northwest vascular plant flora, for which he has conducted extensive field work throughout the region. He manages the Plants of Washington Image Gallery, Washington Flora Checklist, and Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria online databases. He is lead editor and co-author for Flora of the Pacific Northwest, 2nd edition, co-author of wildflower guides to Mount Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades national parks, co-creator of the Washington Wildflowers identification app, and Taxon Editor of several families for the Flora of North America Project.
