Name: Spring’s Awakening: Flowers on Vellum [WORKSHOP]
Start: 2026-04-30T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-04-30T16:00:00-04:00
Location: 900 Washington St, Wellesley, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02482

$Spring\u2019s Awakening: Flowers on Vellum [WORKSHOP]$

This three-day workshop with award-winning botanical artist Carol Woodin will start with a short tutorial on the foundations of vellum: its handling, matting, and framing. After choosing colorful cut or potted spring flowers from the Garden at Elm Bank collection, we'll design dynamic compositions. Through discussion, demonstration, and hands-on practice, learn to navigate the special characteristics of vellum to make the most of it. Artists will transfer their compositions, lay out a color roadmap, and apply controlled layers of color to build lifelike color, form, and value.
Carol will guide artists through effective watercolor layering by regulating the quantity of liquid in the brush and managing brush carriage. Artists will address and repair the most common glitches that arise when working on vellum. By the end of the class artists will have completed or nearly completed paintings of the Garden’s spring beauties.
Fee includes 1 sheet of 8”x10” vellum.
Prerequisite: For our more advanced, Techniques-level artists or those who have experience painting on vellum.
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Instructed by Carol Woodin
Carol Woodin is an internationally recognized botanical artist with over 30 years of experience, best known for her luminous work depicting orchids, rare wildflowers, and unusual cultivated plants. Based in New York’s Hudson Valley, her work is exhibited and collected worldwide and is held in major public collections including the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. She was a contributing artist to the Grootbos Florilegium, documenting the Cape Floral Kingdom.
Carol is the recipient of the 2024 Shirley Sherwood Award for Botanical Art, as well as multiple international honors including awards from the Royal Horticultural Society, the American Society of Botanical Artists, and Orchid Digest. She currently serves as Exhibitions Director for ASBA and teaches watercolor-on-vellum workshops nationally and internationally, both in person and online.
Class/Program/Workshop: 26 BAC 250 Spring’s Awakening: Flowers on Vellum
Date: 3 days: April 30, May 1 & 2, 2026
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location: the Garden at Elm Bank; 900 Washington St., Wellesley, MA 02482
Photo by Carol Woodin