Nature and Art
ENLIGHTENED NATURE
2025-2026
Flora and fauna illustration course
DATES
8 sessions
From October to May
From 10:00 to 13:00 h.
LOCATION
Science Building
University of Navarra
REGISTRATION
Registration period is OPEN
PLACES AND COST
25 places per session
Cost:
- 1 session: 20€.
- Complete course (8 sessions): 120€.
Workshop objectives
The objective of the workshop is to develop artistic skills and techniques to represent flora and fauna, as well as to show beauty with a focus on interpretation.
Participants will learn to carefully observe the anatomy of anatomy of the speciescapturing essential details such as textures, shapes and colors with precision. This workshop aims to unite scientific observation and artistic artistic creation through illustration.
The workshop is taught by professors Laura González Toledo, Lorea Larraya Medina and Concha Martínez Pasamar, with the collaboration of the Environmental Biology Department.
The artists
Concha Martínez Pasamar
She combines her work in the Department of Philology at the University of Navarra with her creative work as an author. She has written and illustrated more than twenty books in which nature and the environment play a prominent role, among them, Tiempo de otoño ( bookolia), Fleco de nube ( Kalandraka) or Plantar el mundo ( Akiara books). She also gives workshops in which the drawing of nature combines the analytical look with the intimate and emotional.
Laura González Toledo
Passionate about drawing and painting, with a long theoretical and practical career and dedicated to teaching children and adults, she seeks to teach in order to connect with craftsmanship, to make ideas come true and lay the foundations for the future of young people and adults. She has always defined herself as a restless artist of knowledge and in constant learning, who pursues a creative impulse.
Lorea Larraya Medina
She is part of the ArtCinco team, a drawing and painting school and historical art supplies store in Pamplona. He has illustrated psychology books and created murals in literary festivals such as Brif Braf Bruf. With his latest work on the scientific and literary dissemination of animals of the Roncal he has moved closer to a visual language that describes the natural world known and also imagined.
Sessions
October 18, 2025
Basic notions of drawing and color theory
We will learn to draw by simplifying forms through structural lines and geometric shapes applied to plants, animals and landscapes. As for color, through the chromatic ranges of the palette, we will make balanced mixtures and work on the pigment-water relationship (transparencies). First practice with watercolor: freehand floral composition.
November 15, 2025
Practice in watercolor, application of basic techniques.
In the first part of the session we will make autumn leaves (veins and volume). Later, we will make a tulip "drawing" with watercolor.
December 13, 2025
Birds and their secrets. Creation as a way to understand them
With the help of watercolors, we will represent a specific bird. We will take the necessary time to appreciate the details such as feathers or eyes of this animal in order to achieve an understanding of them through the creative process.
January 17, 2026
Landscape: Skies, rocks, trees
We will work on composition and planes. Tricks will be given to simplify and adapt the technique to the type of tree (firs, palms, cypress).
February 14, 2026
The field notebook as a nature diary
Through different examples and suggestions of techniques and composition, we will bring nature to the notebook format in a flexible and subjective way, selecting and capturing what is represented according to the personal look.
March 14, 2026
The nature notebook as a creative space
We will resort to other artistic and literary approaches to make the nature notebook a space for creation and experimentation, in which realistic illustration is combined or modified to build other types of visual communication.
April 18, 2026
Realistic Beetle
We will make a realistic beetle taking into account symmetry, textures with pencil and "rotring" (dots, fine lines), contour line and color.
May 16, 2026
Phyllopteryx tarniolatus. The common sea dragon
This time it will be this fantastic animal full of details the pretext to learn from the graphite. The range of grays and above all the creation of shadows, to shape the light itself, will help us on the path of knowledge of the sea dragon.