WORKSHOPS
Offering private and small group
painting workshops in watercolor at home studio, Bethany Springs Farm.
painting workshops in watercolor at home studio, Bethany Springs Farm.
2025 Hermann Farm Workshops
• Botanical Watercolor Workshop •
Session 1: June 17 - 19, 2025
Session 2: July 7 - 9, 2025
9:30am to 3:00pm
Hermann Farm
526B E. 1st Street, Hermann, MO 65041
Hermann Farm is collaborating with Theresa Long, a botanical watercolor artists, to offer a 3-day workshop for all artistic levels that focuses on painting flowering specimens as well as their related parts: leaves, stems, seeds, and interior structures.
Through close observation of botanical specimens learn to record textures, colors, and shapes with accuracy. Participants will learn to use measurement techniques along with dissection to identify accurate scale.
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2025 Shaw Nature Reserve Workshops
• Botanical Watercolor Workshop •
2 Sessions Available!
Session 1:
3 Thursdays: May 1, 8 & 15, 2025
9:30am to 3:00pm
Shaw Nature Reserve
Gray Summit, MO
REGISTER for Session 1 (FULL - Wait List)
Session 2:
3 Thursdays: May 29, June 5 & 12, 2025
9:30am to 3:00pm
Shaw Nature Reserve
Gray Summit, MO
Mark Your Calendar • Registration Coming Soon!
All levels. Theresa Long, a botanical watercolor artist, offers this 3-day workshop focused on carefully observing botanical specimens selected from the Whitmire Wildflower Garden. Through close observation, learn to record textures, colors, and shapes with accuracy. This 4-day workshop includes painting winter botanical specimens such as seed pods, berries, twigs, branches, evergreens, lichens, and dried grasses. Participants will learn to use measurement techniques to identify accurate scale. Sessions will wrap up each day with discussion of progress, questions and insights. A supply list will be included with registration. Participants need to bring a sack lunch or snacks.
2 Sessions Available!
Session 1:
3 Thursdays: May 1, 8 & 15, 2025
9:30am to 3:00pm
Shaw Nature Reserve
Gray Summit, MO
REGISTER for Session 1 (FULL - Wait List)
Session 2:
3 Thursdays: May 29, June 5 & 12, 2025
9:30am to 3:00pm
Shaw Nature Reserve
Gray Summit, MO
Mark Your Calendar • Registration Coming Soon!
All levels. Theresa Long, a botanical watercolor artist, offers this 3-day workshop focused on carefully observing botanical specimens selected from the Whitmire Wildflower Garden. Through close observation, learn to record textures, colors, and shapes with accuracy. This 4-day workshop includes painting winter botanical specimens such as seed pods, berries, twigs, branches, evergreens, lichens, and dried grasses. Participants will learn to use measurement techniques to identify accurate scale. Sessions will wrap up each day with discussion of progress, questions and insights. A supply list will be included with registration. Participants need to bring a sack lunch or snacks.
• Contemporary Collage Workshop •
2 Sessions Available!
These workshops are scheduled as two separate workshops but they can be taken in sequence -- you're welcome to join us for both sessions!
Session 1:
2 Thursdays: August 7 & 14, 2025
Time 9:30am to 3:00pm
Shaw Nature Reserve
Gray Summit, MO
Mark Your Calendar • Registration Coming Soon!
Session 2:
More details coming soon!
All levels. Enjoy the colors and textures of late summer as you create a contemporary collage or collages inspired by nature during this 4-day workshop. Theresa Long will help participants explore a wide range of collage techniques using various materials from home along with different mediums. You can bring old photos, letters, maps, books, and found objects to use with your choice of drawing, painting or printmaking to create original works of art. Sessions will wrap up each day with discussion of progress, questions and insights. A list of suggested supplies will be included with registration. Participants need to bring a sack lunch or snacks.
2 Sessions Available!
These workshops are scheduled as two separate workshops but they can be taken in sequence -- you're welcome to join us for both sessions!
Session 1:
2 Thursdays: August 7 & 14, 2025
Time 9:30am to 3:00pm
Shaw Nature Reserve
Gray Summit, MO
Mark Your Calendar • Registration Coming Soon!
Session 2:
More details coming soon!
All levels. Enjoy the colors and textures of late summer as you create a contemporary collage or collages inspired by nature during this 4-day workshop. Theresa Long will help participants explore a wide range of collage techniques using various materials from home along with different mediums. You can bring old photos, letters, maps, books, and found objects to use with your choice of drawing, painting or printmaking to create original works of art. Sessions will wrap up each day with discussion of progress, questions and insights. A list of suggested supplies will be included with registration. Participants need to bring a sack lunch or snacks.
• Workshop Attendee Exhibition Opportunity •
Shaw Nature Reserve will be hosting a 5 month long exhibition of Botanical Watercolors and Plein-aire Watercolors from the work of artists who have attended my workshops over the past 7 years as part of their 100 Year Anniversary!
Submissions for the juried show will be accepted in June, with submissions due June 26, 2025.
More details coming soon!
Shaw Nature Reserve will be hosting a 5 month long exhibition of Botanical Watercolors and Plein-aire Watercolors from the work of artists who have attended my workshops over the past 7 years as part of their 100 Year Anniversary!
Submissions for the juried show will be accepted in June, with submissions due June 26, 2025.
More details coming soon!
Pop-up-sip AND paint
Participant at the Pop-Up-Sip and Paint.
• Pop-Up-SIP and Paint •
Through the seasons, I will have Pop-Up-Sip and Paint in watercolors in the Hermann, Missouri region. No registration required. All materials will be available.
Small parties and private reservations also available! Perfect for bridal parties, families, and painters of all ages. Contact me for more info!
