More than thirty years ago, The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) established the first formal certificate program in botanical art in North America. This program is comprised of ten foundation courses plus electives in either watercolor, colored pencil, drawing, or natural science illustration.
If you’ve always been interested in this program, but never had the time to take a class during the regular school year, consider the Garden’s summer school program. Next month NYBG will launch their summer school for botanical artists. Four courses will be offered and all will be taught as summer intensive classes. These fast-track classes will be taught in less than half the time of regular classes.
Fast-track Botanical Art Courses (Summer 2018)
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Botanical Drawing I: Methods and Materials Intensive
Learn observation techniques and learn about proportion, foreshortening, perspective, and line weight. This class is a prerequisite for all classes in the certificate program. Two sessions will be offered this summer.
Cost: $479.00 Non-Member, $435.00 Member
NYBG Location:
Instructor: Linda M. Nemergut
July 9-20, 2018
10 AM – 1 PM
Midtown Center Location:
Instructor: Rose Marie James
July 9-20, 2018
10 AM – 1 PM
Pen and Ink Intensive
Monday, Wednesday & Friday
July 9, 11 and 13, 2018
Learn how to create lifelike botanical illustrations in pen and ink from botanical illustrator and fine artist, Carol Ann Morley.
Course prerequisite:
Botanical Drawing II: Developing Your Skills.
Cost: $479.00 Non-Member, $435.00 Member
Colored Pencil Intensive
Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays
July 17 – 26, 2018 (no class on July 25)
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
The focus of this course is color theory and application. Learn the techniques botanical illustrators use to create plant portraits and how they can make their portraits look like a drawing or a painting. This class will be taught by botanical illustrator Laura Vogel.
Course prerequisite:
Botanical Drawing II: Developing Your Skills.
Cost: $479.00 Non-Member, $435.00 Member
Botanical Drawing II: Developing Your Skills
Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays
July 30 – August 10, 2018
10 AM – 1 PM
Apply Botanical Drawing I skills and techniques to simple relevant subjects. Focus on concepts of light source, value, and shading to create form. Learn to translate color into black and white, and create the illusion of depth and space in your work. This class will be taught by Linda M. Nemergut.
Course prerequisite:
Botanical Drawing I: Methods and Materials
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