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Margaret Best’s 6th Destination Workshop in Andalucía, Spain

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, travel on August 30, 2015|

By Best Botanical

There are only 2 spaces left in Margaret Best’s April/May 2016 workshop in Spain. Non-artist friends, partners or spouses are also welcome.

The workshop accommodation is a beautifully restored 16th century house in an aromatic garden surrounded by 3000 acres of olive and orange groves. As for all of Margaret’s previous painting trips, this workshop/tour is capably managed on the ground by Kiloran McRae for the Quench Travel Group of Toronto.

Five glorious days of painting will be spent in a spectacular setting high in Sierra Moreno Mountains, just north of Seville in the heart of Andalucía with options to tour the historic sites of Seville and Barcelona. As always, Quench’s remarkable local connections will make for an unforgettable, cultural immersion. Tapas, flamenco dancing, sherry bodegas, historical gardens …

Many of the already registered participants have been on 3 or more of Margaret’s destination workshops. Their enthusiasm for these unique painting opportunities speaks to the quality of their previous experiences. Botanical artist and ASBA member Jan Clouse and her husband Charles of Santa Barbara have this to say about their previous trips with Margaret and Kiloran:

Margaret knows how much Jan appreciates her guidance and mentoring, but the sustained exposure to her teaching skills provided by these trips is inestimable. We both admire Kiloran’s skills as well. Where do we start? Guide? Translator? Chaperone? Student of Medieval history? Plant identifier? She does it all at breakneck speed — in two, sometimes three, languages. Can’t praise her too highly either.

The food was as always, rave-worthy … impressive botanical gardens, the welcoming horticulturists, and historical sites as well… Altogether we had terrific experiences as botanical painter, guitarist, and tourists.

For details about this unique painting opportunity and a chance to explore some remarkable art and sites of historical significance in Spain, visit
Exclusively Quench online.

Previous Margaret Best/Quench workshop destinations include:

Tuscany, Italy
Marrakech, Atlas Mountains, Morocco
Newfoundland, Canada
Cotswold’s, England
Puglia, Italy

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One space remains in two-week botanical art class with Anne-Marie Evans

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities on August 30, 2015|

By Bonnie S. Driggers
Past President, Botanical Artists for Education & the Environment

Due to a last-minute cancellation, we have an opening for Anne-Marie Evans’ Botanical Watercolor Class. This two-week class will concentrate first on gaining intimate familiarity with the plant, sketching it from many different aspects while striving for botanical accuracy. Then, students will practice various arrangements using the individual sketches to make an effective composition. Finally, they will proceed to paint application, using Anne-Marie’s six-step method. If you are interested, please contact me for details.

Date: September 21 – 25 and September 28 – October 2, 2015
Daily: Monday – Friday, 10 am – 3 pm
Cost: $1,100
Location: Columbia Baptist Church, Room 100, 103 W. Columbia St, Falls Church, VA 22046

Bring a lunch. Coffee and tea will be provided.

Register Today

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‘Botanical Oddities’, a summer exhibition by the Botanical Artists Guild of Southern California

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Events on August 3, 2015|

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The Botanical Artists Guild of Southern California celebrates plant diversity this week in “Botanical Oddities”, an adjunct exhibition of botanical art shown in conjunction with the southern California showing of Weird, Wild & Wonderful: The New York Botanical Garden Second Triennial Exhibition, Botanical Illustrations of Remarkable Plants, a traveling exhibition curated by the American Society of Botanical Artists. Both exhibitions are now on view at the Frances Lasker Brody Botanical Center at The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, CA.

Exhibition hours are as follows:

Botanical Oddities

Weird, Wild & Wonderful: The New York Botanical Garden Second Triennial Exhibition, Botanical Illustrations of Remarkable Plants
Flora-Legium Room
June 13 – August 23, 2015
Open Saturday & Sunday only
10:30 – 4:30 pm

Visit The Huntington

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Evening Tour of Chelsea Physic Garden

Posted in botanical art, Education, gardening, general botany, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements on July 23, 2015|

Enjoy a special evening event at the Chelsea Physic Garden with Head Gardener, Nick Bailey.

On Thursday August 13, Bailey will give a guided tour of the Garden that includes visits to the Garden of Medicinal Plants and the new World Woodland Garden, a garden focusing on medicinal plants from forest environments.

Artist Nici Ruggiero will talk about her installation “Curse or Cure”, an installation of apothecary jars in the Garden of Medicinal Plants. Also included in the evening tour is a visit to London’s Secret Garden: Plant Portraits from Chelsea Physic Garden.

More about Chelsea’s Secret Garden

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Sketch the Landscape of Southern France

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, travel on July 23, 2015|

Botanical Art and Tours in PROVENCE, France
May 27 – June 02, 2016
Arles, France

Four botanical art/drawing sessions and tours during the week.

Learn botanical drawing and watercolor in Southern France with Lisa Coddington. Experienced artists and bashful beginners are welcome. Scheduled classes and personal attention will refine your botanical art skills. There will be unique and wonderful opportunities to sketch and photograph Southern France in the blush of spring.

This workshop includes:

Five nights accommodations with bath ensuite in Arles.
One night accommodation with bath ensuite in Marseille.
Two formal and two informal painting classes and a “Welcome” wine and cheese reception.
Two half-day tours and one full-day tour; picnic at the Pont du Gard.
Breakfast daily and more!

FEES include:

Cost based on share lodging
*Limited single supplement $275.00

EARLY BIRD SPECIAL:
Place your deposit by August 31 to receive complimentary art supplies.

For itinerary details, please contact Lisa Coddington. For travel information, please contact Harriet at Cultural Encounters or call (505) 982-8264.

View Lisa’s online gallery at LisaCoddington.com

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Exhibition about mysterious fungi at The Hunt Institute

Posted in botanical art, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements on July 15, 2015|

The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation invites you to explore the amazing and mysterious world of fungi!

Boletus calopus Fr. [Boletus calopus Persoon, Boletaceae], watercolor on paper by Aurel Dermek (1925–1989), 1965, for Dermek and Albert Pilát, Poznávajme Huby (Bratislava, Veda, t. Tlač. SNP-Neografia, Martin, 1974, pl. 58), 30 x 21 cm, HI Art accession no. 6084.2.

The Mysterious Nature of Fungi
Hunt Institute for
Botanical Documentation
Pittsburgh, PA
Sept. 17, 2015 – Dec. 17, 2015

The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation presents
“The Mysterious Nature of Fungi” from 17 September to 17 December 2015. This exhibit gives an overview of these mysterious organisms that are found almost everywhere on this planet and are the cause of both bliss and blight.

Join us Thursday, 17 September 2015, 5-7 pm for an opening reception.
At 5:30 pm the curators will give a short introduction to the exhibition in the gallery.

We will also open on Saturday and Sunday, 10-11 October, 1-4 p.m., during Carnegie Mellon University’s Cèilidh Weekend festivities.
On Saturday join our curator throughout the afternoon for tours of the exhibition. On Sunday (1:30-2:30 p.m.) Richard Jacob, a biochemist by trade and president of the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club, will present the talk “Mushroom clubs: Citizen science in action!”

The Cabinet of curiosities in the Hunt Institute lobby will display lithographs from a limited-edition portfolio in our Library collection. The 20th-century American avant-garde composer, writer and visual artist John Cage (1912–1992) also was an avid, amateur mushroom forager who was so enthusiastic about mushrooms that he and his friend, visual artist Lois Long (1918-2005), co-founded the New York Mycological Society in 1962. Together they published The Mushroom Book (1972), with the taxonomic assistance of the mycologist Alexander H. Smith (1904-1986).

“The Mysterious Nature of Fungi” will be on display on the 5th floor of the Hunt Library building at Carnegie Mellon University and will be open to the public free of charge.

Hours: Monday–Friday, 9 AM–noon and 1–5 PM; Sunday, 1–4 PM (except 22 November and 26–29 November). Because our hours of operation are occasionally subject to change, please call or email before your visit to confirm. For further information, contact the Hunt Institute at 412-268-2434.

About the Hunt Institute
The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, a research division of Carnegie Mellon University, specializes in the history of botany and all aspects of plant science and serves the international scientific community through research and documentation.

Click on first image to view images as a slideshow.

: [Pilobolus Tode, Pilobolaceae], watercolor on paper by Carmen Sylvia Zocchio-Fidalgo (1941–), 54.5 x 40.5 cm, HI Art accession no. 4830.

: French and Italian Truffles [Tuber melanosporum Vittadini and Tuber magnatum pico Vittadini, Tuberaceae], watercolor on paper by Dorothee de Sampayo Garrido-Nijgh (1941–), 2009, 33.5 x 39 cm, HI Art accession no. 7782.

: Boletus calopus Fr. [Boletus calopus Persoon, Boletaceae], watercolor on paper by Aurel Dermek (1925–1989), 1965, for Dermek and Albert Pilát, Poznávajme Huby (Bratislava, Veda, t. Tlač. SNP-Neografia, Martin, 1974, pl. 58), 30 x 21 cm, HI Art accession no. 6084.2.

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Create a nature journal of autumn leaves

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Sketching & Journaling on July 15, 2015|

Fall leaves © Linda C. Miller, all rights reserved

Believe it or not, the end of summer is beginning to appear on the horizon. School begins next month and the seasons will change once again.

If you live in the vicinity of Williamsburg, Virginia, you have the opportunity to capture the changing seasons with botanical artist Linda C. Miller.

Here is what’s new in the Classes Near You sections for Virginia and
North Carolina.

Linda C. Miller
www.lindacmillerbotanicalarttoday.com

Linda is a botanical artist from Virginia and the artist in residence at The Elizabethan Gardens in Manteo, NC. Learn more about this special honor. Linda teaches in North Carolina and in Virginia. Visit Linda’s blog, Botanical Art Today to learn about her classes and upcoming gallery appearances.

Fall Botanical Workshop

The Elizabethan Gardens, Odom Hall. © Linda C. Miller, all rights reserved

Use your artistic skills to illustrate and create a Botanical Portrait working with flora from The Elizabethan Garden’s greenhouses and grounds. Learn basic drawing skills, observation, and watercolor techniques to create a botanical painting. Beginner and advanced students welcome!

Materials list provided by instructor. For additional information, please contact Linda. To register, contact The Elizabethan Gardens at
(252) 473-3234.

Two Day Workshop Option:
$100.00 member, $120 non-member

Three Day Workshop:
$150.00 member, $180 non-member

Class limit: 10

Fall Nature Journal Class
Freedom Park Interpretive Center Building
Williamsburg, VA
November 14, 2015
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Learn how to keep your own nature journal. Instructor Linda Miller will demonstrate ways of journal-keeping including drawing flora, making quick landscape studies and nature poetry. No experience necessary. Please bring your own journal, pencil, and a small package of colored markers.

Class Fee: $15 per person
Class Limit: 10

Painting Fall Leaves in Watercolor
Freedom Park Interpretive Center
Williamsburg, VA
Wednesdays: October 28, November 4 & 11, 2015
10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Learn how to draw and paint fall leaves. Instructor will provide watercolor paper. Please bring your own journal, pencil and watercolor paints.

Workshop Fee: $75 per person
Class Limit: 6

Private Watercolor Lessons with Linda C. Miller
Limited to four guests each session, designed especially for you.
Learn more about Linda at Linda Miller Botanical Art.
Half-day: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. or 12:30 – 3:30 p.m. ($75 per person).
Full-day: 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. ($125 per person).

Related
When in Williamsburg, don’t miss Birds, Bugs, and Blooms: Observing the Natural World in the 18th Century, now at Colonial Williamsburg through January 2, 2017.