Botanical Illustration

Celebrate (and document) one of the best parts of California: the great outdoors! Using works from the Crocker’s permanent collection, learn the differences between artistic renderings of plants and botanical illustration. Afterwards, practice drawing with precision and detail using color pencils. All participants will use colored pencils to produce small drawings in a small sketchbook.

Instructor Ellie Yun-Hui Tu grew up in Taiwan and later studied in Paris, France. She holds a Botanical Art Certificate from Filoli Gardens in Woodland, California and currently works as a botanical illustrator, educator, and translator in Ventura, California. Her most recent work is a series of pen & ink native plant illustrations for Channel Islands National Park guide books. Her paintings have been shown in California Islands Symposiums, Flora of National Parks exhibit at U.S Botanic Garden in Washington. D.C., Huntington Library, among the others.