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Denver Botanic Gardens School of Botanical Art and Illustration
Denver Botanic Gardens
A complete program offering classes in pencil drawing, colored pencil, watercolor, sketching, botany, art history, scratch board, and classes dedicated to specific techniques and plant groups. See a complete course listing here. This program now works collaboratively with El Charco del Ingenio, a nature reserve and botanical garden in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. To download the 2010 Winter-Spring Catalog at DBG or the brochure at El Charco, visit the program’s blog at http://botanicalillustration.blogspot.com/. This blog is maintained by Program Coordinator, Mervi Hjelmroos-Koski. Highlights from the 2010 schedule include:
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Denver Botanic Gardens
- Botany for the Botanical Illustrator
- Color Layering for Colored Pencil
- Botanical Roadkill: Fun with Flat Flowers
- Hand Lettering for Garden Diaries and Artwork
- The Illuminated Herbal: An Alphabet from A to Z
- Miniature Masterpieces in Pencil
- Drawing on Tradition: Botanical Drawings of Marion Mahony Griffin
- Drawing on Tradition: Flower Portraits of Maud Purdy
- Ann Swan: Working In and Out of the Box
- Scratchboard: Luminous Illustration in Ink
- Photoshop for Beginners
- Adobe Illustrator I
- Adobe InDesign
- Illustration in Graphite
- Gaining Perspective
- Illustration in Colored Pencil I
- Botany for Illustrators, Gardeners & Amateur Botanists
- Succulent! Capturing Cacti in Colored Pencil
- Illustration in Watercolor I
- Botanical Landscapes
- Composing Compelling Artwork
- Flower Portraits in Pencil and Color
- Focus on Form
- Hand-made Journal & Hand Lettering
El Charco del Ingenio
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