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Sketch trees, landscape at historic Mount Auburn Cemetery

Posted in Learning Opportunities, tagged Erica Beade, learning opportunities on July 7, 2018|

Now at Classes Near You > Massachusetts:

Erica Beade, Scientific Illustrator
www.observationaldrawing.com
Erica Beade is a scientific illustrator specializing in science, health and nature subjects and has taught observational drawing for many years, with a particular focus on the natural world. She offers independent workshops and also more formal classes through the Harvard Museum of Natural History (and occasionally other venues). She also offers private classes and workshops for individuals and groups. Information about upcoming classes is posted on her teaching website, Observational Drawing.

View portfolios of Erica’s work at www.mbcgraphics.com, Science-Art.com, and www.cafepress.com/mbcgraphics.

During summer Erica teaches outdoor sketching workshops in Cambridge.
She invites you to join her at historic Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Upcoming Outdoor Sketching Workshops

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If you would like to receive regular email updates about upcoming workshops and classes, just let me know and I will add you to my mailing list.

If you have any thoughts about workshops you would like to see offered, or any other questions at all, please just let me know!

INDEPENDENTLY OFFERED WORKSHOPS

Landscape Sketching: Friday, July 20
Sketching Trees: Friday, August 10
Capturing Textures with Pencil: Thursday, August 23
Botanical Sketching: Thursday, September 6
Sketching with Colored Pencils: Thursday, September 20

To register, please contact Erica via email.
 
To receive information about future workshops, please join Erica’s email list at ObservationalDrawing.com.

Follow Observational Drawing on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/observationaldrawing.

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Summer classes give students head start in botanical art certificate program

Posted in Learning Opportunities on June 21, 2018|

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)

Botanical Drawing I: Methods and Materials Intensive

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

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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

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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

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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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Create inspired drawings of Nature with Sarah Simblet

Posted in Learning Opportunities, tagged Sarah Simblet on May 26, 2018|

The Ruskin School of Art will host three summer classes with artist and author Sarah Simblet that will change how you observe and capture Nature in all your creative endeavors.

The following classes offer immersive drawing experiences. Participants will receive instruction both in the studio and in the field.

Botanical Drawing

A seven-day intensive in botanical illustration based on the best-selling book, Botany for the Artist: An Inspirational Guide to Drawing Plants. Participants will immerse themselves in plant morphology and the techniques of botanical illustration to produce drawings featuring the plants at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Christ Church Meadows. This course will inspire confidence in the beginner and refresh the work of experienced artists. No previous experience needed. View course itinerary online.

The New Sylva: Drawing Trees with Sarah Simblet
August 20-24, 2018

Based on the book The New Sylva: A Discourse of Forest and Orchard Trees for the Twenty-First Century by Gabriel Hemery and Sarah Simblet, this course will be held in the studio at the Ruskin School of Art and in the beautiful gardens of Rousham House in West Oxfordshire. Beginning and experienced students will learn about the morphology of trees and fill their handmade sketchbooks with observations. When reviewing the course itinerary, be sure to watch the short video in which Sarah discusses how she studies trees and prepares to draw them.

The Drawing Book with Sarah Simblet
September 3-9, 2018

No experience is necessary to participate in this in-depth course about drawing. Participants will engage in practical drawing lessons, visit museums, and learn about the history, contemporary practice, and diverse role drawing plays in our lives. Elements of drawing to be discussed include frame, plane, shape, space, line, mark, gesture, time, rhythm, speed, form, surface, texture, lighting, illusion, and perspective. View the course itinerary here.

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The Ruskin School of Art offers a range of short courses that may also be of interest to you. View the current schedule for details.

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Outdoor sketching classes at Mount Auburn Cemetery, the first garden cemetery in the United States

Posted in Learning Opportunities, tagged Massachusetts on May 17, 2018|

Attention readers near Cambridge, MA!

Scientific illustrator Erica Beade will teach four outdoor sketching workshops at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Here’s what’s new at Classes Near You > Massachusetts.

Erica Beade, Scientific Illustrator
www.observationaldrawing.com
Erica Beade is an illustrator specializing in science, health and nature subjects and has taught observational drawing for many years, with a particular focus on the natural world. She offers independent workshops and more formal classes through the Harvard Museum of Natural History (and occasionally other venues). She also offers private classes and workshops for individuals and groups. Information about upcoming classes can be found on her teaching website, Observational Drawing.

View portfolios of Erica’s work at www.mbcgraphics.com, Science-Art.com, and www.cafepress.com/mbcgraphics.

OUTDOOR SKETCHING WORKSHOPS – SPRING & SUMMER 2018

Sketching Plants & Flowers: Thursday, May 24 from 9:00am to 11:00am
Sketching Trees: Wednesday, June 6 from from 9:00am to 11:00am
Landscape Sketching: Thursday, June 21 from from 9:00am to 11:00am
Sketching with Colored Pencils: Saturday, June 30 from from 9:00am to 11:00am

Workshop Fee: $40 each

To register, please contact Erica via email.

To receive information about future workshops, please join Erica’s email list at ObservationalDrawing.com.

Follow Observational Drawing on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/observationaldrawing.

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Picturing Plants at Occidental Center for the Arts

Posted in Learning Opportunities on May 11, 2018|

Botanical Dimensions is a non-profit organization dedicated to exploring plants and the cultural knowledge surrounding them.

Next month Botanical Dimensions will host Picturing Plants: Cyanotype and Botanical Drawing as Tools for Depicting Nature. This workshop will be taught by visual artist Klea McKenna and Kathleen Harrison, Director of the Ethnobotany Library in Occidental, CA.

In this weekend workshop, participants will learn how to create botanical illustrations using graphite, pen and ink, and colored pencil. Participants will also learn about cyanotype printing and the history of botanical illustration. Also scheduled is a Saturday evening talk with artist Klea McKenna.

Picturing Plants: Cyanotype and Botanical Drawing as Tools for Depicting Nature

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Guild of Natural Science Illustrators celebrates 50th anniversary in Washington, DC

Posted in Learning Opportunities, scientific illustration, Special Announcements on May 3, 2018|

By Taina Litwak, Program Co-coordinator, GNSI Conference

The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators would like to invite you to join us at the 50th Anniversary GNSI Conference in Washington, D.C., July 15-21, 2018. Illustrators, artists, scientists and educators will gather to showcase award-winning work and new techniques that shape diverse fields of inquiry where science and art converge. We hope you will join fellow artists and science communicators this summer at this historic gathering in Washington D.C., where the GNSI began back in 1968.

Conference registration is now open.

View the conference website at http://2018.conf.gnsi.org.

For more information, please contact Shannon Russell, Local Expert, GNSI Conference 2018.

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Explore Madagascar with illustrator Agathe Haevermans

Posted in Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, travel, tagged Agathe Haevermans, Madagascar, Thomas Haevermans on April 5, 2018|

If you’ve ever wanted to go somewhere less traveled to draw and paint plants like the botanists and artists of past centuries, here is your opportunity.

Scientific illustrator Agathe Haevermans and botanist Thomas Haevermans have announced they will lead a botany and illustration tour of Madagascar in the fall.

This tour is a 14-day adventure that includes travel by foot, bus, boat and dug-out canoe. Travelers will visit national parks and marine reserves, seaside villages, local markets, pristine forests, and meet with Malagasy botanical artists. Travelers will fill their sketchbooks with images daily while learning about Madagascar’s flora and fauna. Madagascar is home to thousands of species believed not to exist anywhere else on earth.

Here is a brief look at the itinerary:

Day 1

Day 3
Hike to the top of Montagne des Français, visit the Orangea forest, sketch the Baobabs, pachypodiums, and other succulent plants.

Day 4
Visit a dense rainforest.

Day 5
Visit geological features, go on a hike and add images to your sketchbook.

Day 6
Visit Ankarana National Park, sketch the botanical curiosities you encounter.

Day 7
Visit an uninhabited island and explore the lagoon.

Day 8
Visit one of the last primary forests where you can find almost all the endemic flora and fauna in northern Madagascar. Travel by cut-out canoe.

Day 9
Morning drawing workshop with Agathe at the hotel. Afternoon on your own.

Day 10
Visit local markets in a seaside village.

Day 11
Visit Ankarafantsika National Park.

Day 12
Explore Ankarafantsika National Park.

Day 13
Walking tour of the City of Flowers.

Day 14
Botanical drawing workshop and other options available on this day.

The full itinerary of this adventure can be viewed on the website of Nomade Aventure, the travel company organizing this trip.

More About Your Experienced Guides

Agathe and Thomas Haevermans are both members of the Société des Explorateurs Français (Society of French Explorers).

Agathe Haevermans is the scientific illustrator at the Muséum National Histoire Naturelle (Museum of Natural History) in Paris. She is also the president of the Société Française d’Illustration Botanique (French Society of Botanical Illustration), and the author of several books, including The Art of Botanical Drawing: An Introductory Guide (2009).

Thomas Haevermans is a botanist who has conducted research throughout Asia and Madagascar. He now manages the botanical team at the Institute of Systemics, Evolution, and Biodiversity at the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris.

Accompanying the Haevermans will be a team of local French-speaking guides and local park guides.

This adventure begins on October 20, 2018, in the capital city of Antananarivo.

Cost: 2929 €

(Note: The duration and price shown in the itinerary does not include an international return flight so to allow travelers to book a return trip most appropriate for their situation)

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