Botany: Art & Handwork Ideas

It's Making Zen right now and I'm having a great time. I also remembered that there have been several projects over the past 3 years (6 Making Zen conferences) that I mentally tagged as being good possibilities for Botany.

And now we are beginning Botany!

I'm just going to make myself a master list of Art & Handwork Ideas. Feel free to add to it if you found a great online tutorial, or a lesson in a book.

Speaking of books... Drawing from the Book of Nature is KEY for this block. I'll have to make another post listing all of the Botany chapters.

workshops from Making Zen

Amy Maricle

Fine Line Flowers
Oct 2025

watercolor paints: indigo, rose madder, lemon yellow




Mini Watercolor Leaves: Beautiful Botanicals Made Simple
Sep 2026
inspired by Broadhead Arrowleaf

cold press watercolor paper

watercolor paints: indigo, lemon yellow, olive green

Darcy Hunter

Hand-Stitched Red Poppies with 3D Elements
Oct 2025




Painting Fabric with Watercolour and Inktense
Sep 2026

Kristin Peterson

Abstract Textile Seedpods
Sep 2026

inspired by Milkweed

Lisa Goddard

Mixed Media Textile Moth
May 2024

POLLEN: Darwin's 130-Year Prediction by Darcy Pattison

other workshops, tutorials & ideas

Wet Felted Flower
YouTube - Spry Whimsy Fiber Arts

Wet Felted Trumpet Flower
YouTube - Esther's Place

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