Using specimens from The Orchid Show, learn to paint the exquisite beauty of these delicate flowers. Master orchid artist Carol Woodin will show you techniques to achieve the waxy textures, subtle colors, and graceful forms of this flower family. Each student will produce a bookplate-sized painting in the style of a botanical monograph. Artists can work on paper or vellum. This is a 3-day, live class held at the New York Botanical Garden when it is in its height of spring bloom.

Prerequisite: Botanical Drawing II

Laelia eyermanniana in the collection of Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. A wild orchid of the Sonoran temperate forest.