New schedule of classes now at Classes Near You > Colorado:
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, scratchboard, 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 Winter/Spring 2011 DBG catalog or the brochure for El Charco, visit the program’s blog at http://botanicalillustration.blogspot.com/. This blog is maintained by Program Coordinator, Mervi Hjelmroos-Koski.
The 2011 schedule includes:
GUEST WORKSHOPS
- Drawing on Tradition: Women’s Painted Furniture (1790-1830) – Jan. 21-22; 9:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Instructor: Betsy Krieg Salm, scholar, artisan and teacher of the long-lost art of women’s painted furniture. Cost: $170 member, $192 non-member.
- Discover Scratchboard: Ink and Graphite – April 15-17; 9:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Instructor: Trudy Nicolson, freelance medical and scientific illustrator. Cost: $210 member, $257 member
- Natural Colors and Science of Art – Feb. 18-19; 9:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Instructor: Rebeccah Cope, Manager & Program Director of the Historic Yates Mill County Park, Raleigh, NJ. Cost: $210 member, $257 member
INTRODUCTORY COURSES (Cost: $192 member, $245 non-member):
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Introduction to Botanical Illustration
REQUIRED COURSES ($192 member, $245 non-member):
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Botany for the Botanical Illustrator
Botanical Illustration in Pencil I
Botanical Illustration in Pencil II
Perfecting Perspective
Botanical Illustration in Pen and Ink I
Botanical Illustration in Pen and Ink II
Color Layering for Colored Pencil
Botanical Illustration in Colored Pencil I
Botanical Illustration in Colored Pencil II
Color Mixing for Artists
Botanical Illustration in Watercolor I
Botanical Illustration in Watercolor II
ELECTIVE COURSES (prices vary):
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Art Materials for the Botanical Illustrator
Ukrainian Easter Eggs: Pysanky
Giclee Prints Made Easy
Framing Botanical Art
Bookbinding Workshop – Spring Back Ledger Binding
Color Mixing Journal
Botany Spotlight: Orchid Flowers
Botany Spotlight: Legumes
Microscopy: Luscious Lichens and Mischievous Microfungi
Drawing on Tradition: Women’s Painted Furniture II – Painted Pencil Box
Drawing Techniques: The Value of Value
The Value of Value in Color Painting
Focus on Style
The Business of Botanical Art
Carbon Dust: Focus on Bones
Elegant Hand Lettering
Pen and Ink III: Publication
Botanical Miniatures
Building Colored Pencil Paintings
Drawing on Tradition: Hoefnagel and the Cabinet of Curiosities
Drawing on Tradition: Dutch Flower Painters of the 17th Century
Paper Grounds with Velvet Surfaces
Drawing on Tradition: Art Forms of Ernst Haeckel
Flower Portraits – Fascinating Perspective
Drawing on Tradition: Dugald Stermer
Pencil + Paint = Pleasure!
HOT Botanicals in Mixed Media
Flowers and Shakespeare
Watercolor Pencil I
Watercolor Pencil II
Tropical Plants in Watercolor
Orchids in Watercolor
Roots in Watercolor
Mysterious Yellows in Watercolor
Garden Landscapes in Watercolor
Champion Trees in Watercolor
Painting Succulents in Watercolor
A Special Note from Program Coordinator, Mervi Hjelmroos-Koski:
Please tell your readers about the Arts and Archives tour we’ll be organizing next spring. We’ll be leaving March 31 from Denver and returning April 11, there is an option to stay longer if that would be the preference. We travel to London first (April 1-6) and spend the later part of our of tour in Madrid. We’ll start with Hampton Court Palace Archives and Florilegium and enjoy the Royal School of Needlework’s archives tutor of their Floral treasures. We visit the Natural History Museum, Kew Gardens with Shirley Sherwood Gallery, the Linnean Society, and the Lindley Library. We will be visiting Ann Swan at her studio in Wiltshire and Stonehenge alt. Avebury. We are hoping to see the 2011 SBA exhibit before leaving to Madrid where we will visit the Royal Botanic Gardens, National Library and Archives; Museo den Prado, L Reina Sofia, Tyssen-Bornemisza and the Royal Palace. I have three spots left (the tour is limited to 13 participants only).
For more information about this exciting travel opportunity, contact Mervi Hjelmroos-Koski.
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