Making History Workshop

Medicinal Botanicals: The Living Specimens

with Margaret Saylor

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In the winter session, participants drew from two-hundred-year-old copper engravings — the plants as Sowerby saw them, translated through a burin, a press, and an unknown hand’s watercolor brush. Now the same plants have grown back into the world, and they are waiting for you.

In this second session, you’ll work directly from live medicinal plant specimens: roots, stems, leaves, and flowers observed in real light, real time, and real dimension. Where historical plates offer elegant distillation, the living plant gives you the delicious complication of imperfection — the leaf that curls, the flower that leans, the stem that refuses the composition you planned.

If you joined us in February, bring the sketchbook you’ve already started. If this is your first time, bring your curiosity and a willingness to really look. Either way, you’re in exactly the right place.

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