Workshop: Botanical Sketching by Nirupa Rao at Science Gallery Bengaluru | Free Entry

Botanical art is the practice of depicting plant species with accuracy and beauty. While such art is often created in colour, this introductory workshop focuses on sketching in black and white, laying a firm foundation for future botanical paintings. It will help you understand structure, volume and shading in plants. However if you’ve been practising a while, feel free to bring along the colouring medium you’ve been using (watercolours, pencils or felt pens only).

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Nirupa Rao is a botanical illustrator whose work is inspired by close collaboration with natural scientists. A National Geographic Explorer and Fellow, Nirupa is the youngest artist featured in Kew Botanical Garden's Indian Botanical Art - An Illustrated History. She has illustrated two books: Hidden Kingdom - Fantastical Plants of the Western Ghats and Pillars of Life - Magnificent Trees of the Western Ghats, and the cover of Amitav Ghosh's latest novel, Gun Island. She co-directed a short animated film set in the Myristica swamps of South India titled Spirit of the Forest, which showed at Annecy 2023. She was also 2022’s artist-in-residence at Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks.