Tifft Nature Preserve, Buffalo, NY
Sketching & Painting Nature
Tifft Nature Preserve, Buffalo Museum of Science
May 2-3, 2009
Instructor Mary McAndrew invites you to explore nature. Learn how to draw both in the field and from photos. Learn how to work with pencils, colored pencils, watercolor pencils, and watercolor paint. Participants will also use water-soluble graphite and waterbrushes. View a full listing of Mary’s classes at her nature sketching blog at www.marymcandrew.blogspot.com.
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Sketching & Painting Nature with Mary McAndrew
Posted in Learning Opportunities on January 24, 2009| 1 Comment »
ArtPlantae Books To Host Guest Speakers
Posted in ArtPlantae Books, botanical art, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on January 19, 2009|
ArtPlantae Books will host authors and artists at the 2009 Los Angeles Garden Show to be held at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden. The planned program will complement the garden show’s theme (“A Festival of Flavors”), as well as ArtPlantae’s theme for 2009. You are invited to join us at the Los Angeles Garden Show on May 1-3, 2009.
Program details will be published as they become available.
Classes Near You – Oregon, Minnesota
Posted in Learning Opportunities on January 19, 2009|
Mount Pisgah Arboretum, Eugene, OR
www.mountpisgaharboretum.org
- Slowpoke Sketch Walk – February 7
- One Small Square – February 22 (create an artistic record of one small square of nature)
Bell Museum of Natural History, Minneapolis, MN
EXHIBIT: Richard Crammer: Into the Forest of Flowers
January 10 – February 22, 2009
Exquisite drawings and pastel paintings delicately highlight the intricacies of plants and birds.
Como Conservatory, St. Paul, MN
www.comozooconservatory.org
- Plants In Pen-and-Ink: Mondays, January 19 – March 9, 2009
- Drawing Basics – Wednesdays, Jan 21 – Mar 11 (two sections)
- Watercolor Basics – Tuesdsays, Jan 20 – Mar 10 (two sections)
- Beyond Watercolor Basics – Mondays, Jan 19 – Mar 9
- Botanical Drawing I – Tuesdays, Jan 20 – Mar 10
- Color Theory -Mondays, Jan 19 – Mar 9
- Botanicals in Oil – Thursdays, Jan 22 – Mar 12
- Painting with Pastels – January 20 – March 10
- Sumi-e and Chinese Brush Painting – January 21 – March 11
- Macro Photography – January 31 – February 28
- Marketing and Professional Presentation – February 5
- Legal Considerations for Artists – February 12
- Pricing Your Work – February 19
Sketching & Painting in San Diego
Posted in Learning Opportunities on January 14, 2009|
Sketching & Watercolor: Journal Style — Jane LaFazio
Sat. Apr. 18, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Be inspired to record your life, a special trip, or your daily adventures in a loose, quick journal-style format. Spend the day discovering Old Town San Diego, with artist Jane LaFazio. Jane, known for her friendly and encouraging teaching style, will demonstrate drawing on location and how to use watercolor paint using a straight-forward, intuitive approach. You’ll choose simple objects, vignettes or vistas to draw and paint, and then journal your thoughts and impressions on 5×7 pages. Everyone has their own drawing style, just like handwriting, and Jane will help you to see and then record what you see on paper.
Class Supply List:
All materials (5×7 paper, watercolors, pen, pencil and water brush) are included in the fee. Bring a small camp stool or folding chair, hat, and sunscreen. The class is designed for beginners, however all levels are welcome. Fee: $120.00
Register info@shepherdessbeads.com or call The Shepherdess at (619) 297.4110
About Jane LaFazio
http://www.PlainJaneStudio.com
Workshop Updates
Posted in Learning Opportunities on January 12, 2009|
Nina Antze – Drawing Nature (colored pencil)
Kathy Dunham – Beginning Watercolor, Intermediate Watercolor, Sketching & Drawing, Plein Aire (Springtime in the Desert), Create Dynamic Paintings in Watercolor, Painting & Sketching in France
UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity – Botanical Illustration
International Classes Near You
Kathy Dunham – Painting & Sketching in France
Mike Sibley – Graphite Pencil Techniques (UK). Mike will also teach this class in New York, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Texas, and Tennessee. Keep up with Mike’s teaching schedule here.
New Classes in New York & Washington
Posted in Learning Opportunities on January 3, 2009|
See what Roberta Rosenthal will be teaching in New York and what Kathleen McKeehen will be teaching in Washington. Click on the Classes Near You! tab above.
Drawing From Your Plant Collection
Posted in Learning Opportunities on December 29, 2008|
Selfridge, Gail. 2008. Drawing from your collection. Cactus and Succulent Journal. 80(1): 7-11.
“You don’t have to be a professional artist to enjoy drawing plants, any more than you have to be a professional writer to compose an e-mail or write a letter.”
— Gail Selfridge
Scientific illustrator, Gail Selfridge, shares how she was inspired to start collecting and documenting Stapelia after reading a book about these South African succulents. While she had prepared countless illustrations for books, journals, and museums, she had never prepared extensive illustrations for herself. Her Stapelia project took two years to complete.
Selfridge describes how she created her colored pencil illustrations and shares images of her work in progress. She lists the materials she used and leads readers through the steps necessary to go from preliminary sketch to finished drawing.
A copy of Volume 80, No 1 of the Cactus and Succulent Journal can be purchased for $8 from the Cactus and Succulent Society of America.
Also in this issue is a brief history about the work of May Blos, a scientific illustrator who, in the 1950s and 1960s, contributed to the Cactaceae section of the Flora of Peru.
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