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Botanical artist and teacher, Margaret Best announces a new series of evening and weekend classes in drawing and botanical art. Here’s the latest at
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Margaret Best
www.bestbotanical.com
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, Italy, Morocco and the United States. Her work is held in both public and private collections, including The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. Visit Traditional Botanicals to buy prints and cards of Margaret’s paintings.

Evening Botanical Drawing Classes
August 1, August 8, August 22, 2012
Peartree Studio, Calgary
Drawing classes for a variety of botanical subjects. Suited to beginners as a place to start. Excellent regular drawing practice for intermediates and advanced artists. Will be ongoing until the end of November. Further dates to be announced. Cost: $48 Cdn each class. View Details/Register


Saturday Studio Sessions
August 11 and 26, 2012
Peartree Studio, Calgary
Full day sessions for participants to start or continue with a botanical study in medium of choice. Will be ongoing after 1 October, dates to be announced. Cost: $89 Cdn each session. View Details/Register


3-day Weekend Workshop
August 17-19, 2012
Ralph Klein Park, Calgary
The topic is Putting a Light on your Subject. This workshop will focus on the impact of a direct light source on a botanical subject in terms of highlights, reflected light and shadow. Open to both coloured pencil and watercolour mediums. The participants will be enjoying the benefits of a remarkable art studio at the new Ralph Klein Park, a location dedicated to the preservation of wetlands and clean water systems. The RKP Center is co-sponsoring the event for the members of the newly-formed Botanical Artists of Southern Alberta. The event is open to members and non-members. Cost: $ 285 Cdn. View Details/Register


Mixing Natural Green and Painting Leaves (SOLD OUT!)
September 26-28, 2012. Filoli, San Francisco.


The Colors and Fruits of Fall – October 12-14, 2012
Cross Conservation Center (CCC), Calgary
This 3-day weekend workshop will focus on earth color pigments in watercolors and all the rich colors that we see in nature in fall. Subject matter will be the berries, rose hips, pods and seeds, curling leaves and grasses. CCC is kindly cosponsoring this event for the members of BASA. The event is open to both members and non-members. Cost: $ 285 Cdn. View Details/Register


Fabulous Foliage – Watercolor
November 2-5, 2012
Bermuda Society of Arts, Hamilton, Bermuda
A 4-day intensive workshop using the incredible variety of shapes and colors of tropical and subtropical leaves of Bermuda. The focus will be on how to capture natural green color and how to achieve surface texture, vein structure, curling, foreshortening. If you have always wanted to master the art of painting leaves, this is a class not to be missed. Bermuda is only a 2.5 hour flight from Toronto. For more information, contact the Bermuda Society of the Arts


Painting in Morocco (w/Talks by Ethnobotanist Gary Martin)
April 22-30, 2013. This incredible botanical art experience has been arranged in conjunction with Quench Travel. Included is instruction by Gary Martin, renowned ethnobotanist and the author of Ethnobotany: A Methods Manual. Enjoy five nights in luxury accommodations, three nights in a mountain retreat, meals prepared by gourmet chefs and highly personalized instruction from Margaret Best. Intrigued by this new adventure in botanical art? Download the itinerary to learn more.

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NEW!
Fruits from the Orchard
August 24-26, 2012

In this three-day class, Catherine Watters will teach you how to capture the the elegant shapes, fine textures and bold colors of fresh fruit. For advanced beginners to advanced artists. Cost: $375 WCBG Friends Members, $470 non-members. Download Details

Here is what else you’ll find at Wellesley College Botanic Gardens:

Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens
Certificate Program in Botanical Art and Illustration
www.wellesley.edu/wcbgfriends
This program offers several weekly and two- or three-day classes on botanical art and scientific illustration with Sarah Roche and Jeanne Kunze and seminars with visiting instructors including Susan Fisher, D. L. Friedman, Kathie Miranda, Carol Ann Morley, Kate Nessler, Elaine Searle, Catherine Watters and more. The courses offered through this program cover all aspects of botanical art. The following is only a glimpse of what this program offers:

• Foundations of Botanical Drawing and Painting
• Techniques of Botanical Drawing and Painting
• Plant Drawing for the Petrified
• On Location: Daylilies with Sarah Roche
• Fruit from the Orchard
• Botanical Painting on Vellum
• Flowers as They Grow
• Playing with Transparency: Colored Pencil on Mylar

View current schedule & instructor bios

Additional Learning Opportunities

Daylilies at Collamore Field Gardens – July 17-19, 2012; 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM. Learn about daylilies at Collamore Field Gardens, an American Hemerocallis Society Display Garden featuring over 650 varieties of daylilies. Sketch lilies in the garden during peak bloom and learn how to transform your sketch into a watercolor painting in the studio. Botanical artist and instructor, Sarah Roche, will show you how! Cost: WCFG Friends Members $225, Non-members, $275. To register, contact wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu or call (781) 283-3094.

Introduction to Botanical Art – Mondays, August 13-17, 2012; 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM. Explore the world of botanical art in this course designed especially for beginners. Sarah Roche guides your experience through structured exercises, projects, and demonstrations. She exposes you to the basic techniques and methods of botanical drawing and watercolor painting. If you have an interest in plants and botany and a yearning to record what you see on paper, then this class is for you. Sarah Roche is a botanical artist and teacher and the Education Chair of the American Society of Botanical Artists. Cost: $250 WCBG Friends Members, $300 Nonmembers. Download Details

NEW! Fruits from the Orchard – August 24-26, 2012; 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM. In this three-day class, Catherine Watters will teach you how to capture the elegant shapes, fine textures and bold colors of fresh fruit. For advanced beginners to advanced artists. Cost: $375 WCBG Friends Members, $470 non-members. Download Details

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