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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. This program works collaboratively with El Charco del Ingenio, a nature reserve and botanical garden in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. To learn more about the Garden’s certificate program, visit the program’s blog at http://botanicalillustration.blogspot.com. This blog is maintained by Program Coordinator, Mervi Hjelmroos-Koski.

GUEST WORKSHOPS FOR SUMMER/FALL 2012

• Traditional Techniques: Plastic Pencils on Film with Alice Tangerini,
  August 3-5, 2012
• Hidden Treasures: Fore-edge Painting for Everyone with Jeanne Bennet, August 18-19, 2012
• Painting with the Needle: Silk Shading with Sarah Homfray,
  September 26-28, 2012
• Drawing on Tradition: Silverpoint with Scott Rawlins, October 5-7, 2012
• Seedpods in Colored Pencil with Ann Swan, October 22-24, 2012
• Leaves and All Things Leafy with Ann Swan, October 26-28, 2012
• From Dancing Ink to Pictures of Ownership: Creating Book Plates with Symbolic Chinese Botanical Motifs with Sally Yu Leung,
  November 30 – December 2, 2012

CERTIFICATE PROGRAM at DBG
A comprehensive series of botanical illustration classes designed for dedicated illustrators and devoted amateurs. Participants must complete all required courses, elective courses and a portfolio review to satisfy requirements necessary for a certificate in botanical art.

Required Courses
Botanical Illustration in Pencil I
Botany for the Botanical Illustrator
Botanical Illustration in Pencil II
Composition for Botanical Illustration
Color Layering for Colored Pencil
Botanical Illustration in Colored Pencil I
Perfecting Perspective
Botanical Illustration in Colored Pencil II
Color Mixing for Artists
Botanical Illustration in Pen and Ink I
Botanical Illustration in Pen and Ink II
Botanical Illustration in Watercolor I
Botanical Illustration in Watercolor II

DISTANCE LEARNING at DBG
This new program combines in-class instruction with online instruction. Students accepted into this new certificate program must live more than 100 miles from Denver Botanic Gardens.

Required Courses Taught at DBG
Botanical Illustration in Pencil I
Botany for the Botanical Illustrator
Composition for Botanical Illustration
Perfecting Perspective
Color Layering for Colored Pencil

Required Courses Taught Online with On-site Component (two days of in-class instruction followed by three weekly Internet sessions)
Botanical Illustration in Pencil II
Botanical Illustration in Colored Pencil I
Botanical Illustration in Colored Pencil II
Color Mixing for Artists
Botanical Illustration in Pen and Ink I
Botanical Illustration in Pen and Ink II
Botanical Illustration in Watercolor I
Botanical Illustration in Watercolor II

View and download Summer/Fall 2012 schedule:

Botanical Illustration Catalog, Summer/Fall 2012 (color)
Botanical Illustration Classes, Summer/Fall 2012 (text only)

This information can also be viewed at Classes Near You > Colorado.