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By Botanical Dimensions
Join us to spend a delicious day dropping in to deeply observe nature and to draw what you see. Instructor Paetra Tauchert will lead us through making sketches, doing color studies, and then drawing a final piece. We will work in graphite and then add color using a limited palette of colored pencils. Paper, drawing boards, erasers, and sharpeners will be provided for use during the class. Students will need to purchase their own colored pencils in advance (list provided upon registration). Working with a limited palette is the easiest way to really get to know your pencils and what they can do. You will take home a piece of your own art, some new skills, and deeper ways of seeing plants.
Summertime Botanical Illustration
Sunday, August 5, 2018
10 AM – 3 PM
Where:
Class will be held in the remarkable Ethnobotany Library of Botanical Dimensions, surrounded by books of beautiful botanical illustrations and plant lore. Located at the Occidental Center for the Arts, in West Sonoma County, at 3830 Doris Murphy Ct., Occidental, CA (map).
Who:
This class is appropriate for beginners and intermediate students, ages 14-101. Maximum number of participants is 12.
Cost: $80, includes most materials
Instructor Bio:
Paetra Tauchert is a lifelong artist of many mediums. She has spent the past five years focusing her art practice on the study of botanical illustration, working in colored pencil, pastel, watercolor and gouache. She is a Master Gardener and keeps a big garden in west Sonoma County, from which she draws much of her inspiration. She is also a consulting astrologer, and writes a lavishly illustrated, bi-monthly newsletter based around the new and full moons, ‘heirloom magic’, and nature.
About Botanical Dimensions
Botanical Dimensions is dedicated to ethnobotanical knowledge in all its forms. Projects include the Ethnobotanical Research library, reforestation in Hawaii, native plants in Northern California, the Amazonian Digital Herbarium Project, and the Mazatec Project in Mexico.
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