Botanical Paint & Print

Watercolor and relief printing meet in Botanical Paint & Print, a workshop taught by Bianca Clyburn of Art on Fire on Selby Gardens' downtown campus. Each participant chooses a reference image from the gardens' plant collection and loosens up with an abstract watercolor background. While the paper dries, they carve that plant into a rubber block. The carving becomes a relief stamp, inked and pressed onto the painted sheet, and more watercolor adds detail and color to the finished print. Linocut carving, inking and transfer are taught from the ground up, every tool and supply is included, and the class may move between indoors and out.