Love botanical painting? On this channel, you’ll find quick, practical tips to use in your nature journal to improve your botanical painting skills. My teaching style simplifies complex botanical subjects and watercolour techniques to help you become a more confident botanical painter—and enjoy nature journaling even more.
My name is Laura, and I am a botanical artist from Vancouver Island, Canada. My love for plants started at an early age and continues to influence my watercolour botanical art, nature journaling and teaching today. I have a diploma with distinction in Botanical Painting from the London Art College and a diploma from the U.K. Society of Botanical Artists.
My work mostly focuses on my nature journal, which documents native plants each month of the year through detailed watercolour and ink illustrations, notes, writings, and diagrams. If you would like to learn more about me and my artistic journey, you can also visit my website: www.laurawatsonart.com
Laura Watson
🌿 The Holiday Hedgerow Drawing Challenge is coming soon! Join me this November as we draw our way through beautiful seasonal hedgerow finds and begin creating a festive Botanical Diary page together. Visit thewatercolourgarden.com to save your spot and you’ll receive the printable drawing guide as soon as the challenge begins. 🍂✨
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Lifetime Membership is $299 CAD until October 31 at midnight. Last call is approaching to join for life at this amazing price. Pay once and enjoy all current and future content inside The Watercolor Garden. Join at www.thewatercolourgarden.com/
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Common privet | Ligustrum vulgare 🌿 These glossy black berries caught my eye on an autumn walk and are exactly the kind of small seasonal detail I love collecting as inspiration for my Botanical Diary. Sometimes the first step is simply noticing what’s changing around you. 🍂
#BotanicalDiary #NatureJournaling #BotanicalArt #AutumnBotanicals #TheWatercolorGarden
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Lifetime Membership is $299 CAD until October 31 at midnight. Last call is approaching to join for life at this amazing price. Pay once and enjoy all current and future content inside The Watercolor Garden. Join at www.thewatercolourgarden.com/
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A beautiful Barred Owl | Strix varia I spotted at the marsh 🦉🍂 Moments like this are exactly why I love spending time outside and keeping a Botanical Diary. You never quite know what you’re going to notice when you slow down and look. This one definitely felt worth stopping for. 🌿
#BarredOwl #NatureJournaling #BotanicalDiary #NatureInspiration #TheWatercolorGarden
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Lifetime Membership is $299 CAD until October 31 at midnight. Last call is approaching to join for life at this amazing price. Pay once and enjoy all current and future content inside The Watercolor Garden. Join at www.thewatercolourgarden.com/
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A page from my November 2024 Botanical Diary 🍄 I love how a collection of small mushroom studies can come together to tell the story of a season. Each one was a little woodland discovery, painted individually and brought together on the page with notes from my observations. This is exactly the kind of seasonal noticing I want to encourage with my new Botanical Diary Series. 🌿
#BotanicalDiary #BotanicalArt #MushroomArt #NatureJournaling #TheWatercolorGarden
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A little reminder if you’ve been thinking about joining The Watercolor Garden 🌿 Lifetime Membership is currently $299 CAD, but this offer ends October 31. Pay once and enjoy lifetime access to all current and future classes, including the new Botanical Diary Series and new seasonal lessons as they’re added. Join here: www.thewatercolourgarden.com/ 🍂
#TheWatercolorGarden #BotanicalArt #BotanicalDiary #WatercolorPainting #WatercolorClasses
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🍂 Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends! I hope your weekend is filled with good food, time with the people you love, and a few quiet moments to notice the beauty of the season. I’m feeling especially grateful for this wonderful creative community and for getting to share my love of painting and the natural world with you. 🧡🌿
#HappyThanksgiving #CanadianThanksgiving #BotanicalArt #AutumnWatercolor #TheWatercolorGarden
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🍂 Red osier dogwood | Cornus sericea One of the beautiful signs of the season, with its leaves beginning to shift from green into dusky reds and purples while the berries are still developing. I’m using seasonal finds like this as inspiration for my Botanical Diary this autumn. You can find more seasonal drawing, watercolor and Botanical Diary lessons inside The Watercolor Garden at www.thewatercolourgarden.com/ 🌿
#BotanicalDiary #BotanicalArt #WatercolorBotanicals #NatureJournaling #TheWatercolorGarden
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