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Best Botanical
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Margaret Best is an award-winning artist and respected teacher. Her artwork has been shown in many exhibitions about contemporary botanical art and is featured in the book, Today’s Botanical Artists, by Cora Marcus and Libby Kyer. Margaret teaches in Canada, England, Bermuda, and the U.S.
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Calgary
Enmax Conservatory, Calgary Zoo and Botanical Garden
The Botanical Watercolor Palette – September 28-30, 2010. A study of the colours required in a botanical artist’s palette and how to mix and match color as close as possible to nature.
How to Mix Natural Green and Paint Leaves – October 25-27, 2010. This class covers all the methods of mixing natural greens from permanent watercolor pigments, the structure of leaves and how to paint them in watercolors with realism.
Constructive Composition – November 23-25, 2010. This workshop helps artists with technical skills in drawing and painting to take their work to a new level. How to capture the essential characteristics of the plant subject and offer it in a painting with maximum eye appeal will be covered.
California
Virginia Robinson Gardens
A Single Flower Study in Watercolor – October 6-8, 2010. How to capture the elegance and detail in a single flower study is the subject of the last in a series of classes this year.
Filoli Estate & Gardens
Painting in Purple – October 19-21, 2010. A study of Filoli’s heritage grapes. Participants will learn how to mix effective purple colors for botanical paintings and how to produce a study of the purple heritage grapes grown on the magnificent Filoli estate.
Bermuda
Bermuda Society of Arts, Hamilton, Bermuda
Introduction to Botanical Art – Observation & Drawing
October 30-31, 2010
Watercolor Brush Techniques for Botanical Art
November 8-10, 2010
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