Classes by award winning Botanical artist, Heeyoung Kim
Botanical Drawing and Painting for Beginners, 2025
Drawing Fundamentals
The most sought-after drawing class is back!
An Intensive course with detailed technique demos, meaningful assignments and constructive feedback. It’s gotten better every year… 5 Thursdays (Jan - Feb), 10 am - 1 pm. Read More….
Botanical Watercolor for Beginners
Control the tools & medium and get confident in techniques!
Learning basics and fundamentals to get closer to perfect watercolor renderings including ‘clean-but-not-hard’ edges, soft blending and gradation… 3 courses on Basic Techniques, Flowers and Leaves (April - June). Read more…
Advanced Watercolor: Botanicals in Ecological Context - Zoom
Continuing Study Group with Heeyoung Kim- Project 2, 2024
Want to develop your own collection and push the limit?
Students in this course explore regional naive flora and fauna with broad ecological themes to create their own independent projects with Heeyoung’s instructions. Each project: 4 weeks, 10 am - 1 pm, CT. $250
Advanced and intermediate level
Project 6, 2024: Butterflies and Tree Bark. In this project we will paint a unique variety of butterfly found in winter in cracks and crevices of tree bark or under leaf litter. (Nov 19, Dec 3, 10 & 17)
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Monday Open Workshop: In-Person
One-on-One Critique and Mentorship
Back to In-Person Class at Brushwood Center
This course is the unique feature of Heeyoung Kim Botanical Art Academy suitable for botanical artists who want to move forward in their projects/careers. Kim’s experiences help students … Learn More, Click Here
Award winning botanical artist as your mentor…
Award winning contemporary botanical artist, Heeyoung Kim has distinctive style of drawing and painting demonstrating her mastery of media she uses in traditional and scientifically accurate botanical art…. Learn More, Click Here
Meet the Artist: Heeyoung Kim
Botanical Artist, Instructor, designer, Native Plant Advocate
Kim is a professional artist who teaches, creates and exhibits prolifically with her focus on advocating ecological conservation through her art. She became the first living artist represented by a renowned natural history art gallery in downtown Chicago, Joel Oppenheimer Gallery. Read more about her at ABOUT from the main menu.
“When I first saw her work, I immediately recognized that she has the talent on par with the Masters that we represent- Basilius Besler, Priscilla Susan Bury, Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Dr. Robert John Thornton- to name a few.” — Joel Oppenheimer, president of Joel Oppenheimer Gallery
Represented by Joel Oppenheimer Gallery
Two Solo Exhibitions at J.O Gallery
Heeyoung is honored to be represented as the first and only living artist among masters the gallery represents. J.O Gallery is known with its devotion to the golden age of natural history art, from 17th through 19th centuries. Heeyoung is thrilled to see her works hung side by side with John James Audubon and Pierre-Joseph Redoute. Original works and J.O. Limited Editions are available at the gallery.
Solo exhibit 1: Heeyoung Kim: Native Plants of the Woods and Prairies, 2015
Solo exhibit 2: Heeyoung Kim: New Works, Orchid Watercolor Paintings, 2019
10 E. Ohio St. Chicago, IL 60611. Tel: 312-642-5300, Tree Studios Annex Building
To view or purchase Heeyoung’s original works and Joel Oppenheimer Limited Editions,
“When I first saw her work, I immediately recognized that she has the talent on par with the Masters that we represent- Basilius Besler, Priscilla Susan Bury, Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Dr. Robert John Thornton- to name a few. ”
Project 200: Documenting Wildflowers of Prairies and Woods
In the spirit of natural history artists in the past, contemporary botanical artist, Heeyoung Kim documents native plants of Midwestern USA (Project 200). Her exquisite and deftly painted compositions portray native woodland and prairie plants. Giving priority to rare and endangered species, she also paints common ones when they have high ecological values. To view the image bank of her paintings of prairies and woods, go Project 200.
