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Master Class in Botanical Art to Focus on Composition

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on October 8, 2013|

The Florida Society of Botanical Artists (FSBA) will host a class with award-winning botanical watercolor artist Hillary Park in November.

Parker will teach the course, Deliberate Composition, November 8-10, 2013. In this course, she will lead botanical artists through exercises and assignments that will help them express their own voice in their work.

This master class workshop will be held at the Center for Arts and Humanity in Sarasota, Florida (map).
FSBA Members $250, Non-members $300

To register for this workshop, click on the image to download the course flyer.

This information can also be found at Classes Near You > Florida.

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The Lyceum in Monterey Expands Botanical Art Program

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities on October 2, 2013|

The oldest non-profit on the Monterey Peninsula, the Lyceum of Monterey County is expanding its botanical art program by adult and family classes to the extensive list of hands-on learning opportunities they provide for Monterey students.

If you live in the Monterey area and are interested in classes about botanical art and nature journaling, visit the Lyceum website to view their current schedule. Here is a class with Nina Antze that will be offered later this month:

Drawing Autumn Leaves in Colored Pencil
Autumn is the perfect time to explore colored pencil techniques with all the beauty of the changing leaf colors, seed pods, gourds and berries. Their unique colors provide the opportunity to practice mixing and layering color. Learn to create rich reds, browns and purples, and explore a variety of colored pencil techniques including burnishing and impressed line. Leaves and other natural materials to draw will be provided, or you may bring in your own beauties.

Ages: Teen – Adult
Dates: October 26, 2013
Hours: 10:00am – 3:00pm
Instructor: Nina Antze
Fee: $80 (half off additional family members)
Size: Limited to 8 students
Register Online

This information can also be found at Classes Near You > Northern California.

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Botanical Art Classes in Wales

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities on October 2, 2013|

Visit course details

Chris Taylor
www.cjtbotanicart.com
Horticulturist, historian, bookseller and artist, Chris Taylor has been drawing since childhood. A graduate of the distance learning diploma course by the Society of Botanical Artists, Chris now teaches botanical art in Wales.

Below is a list of Chris’ upcoming workshops:

Harvest Fruit and Vegetables

Seed Heads, Cones
and Conkers
November 22, 2013
Papery seed heads, cones and shiny conkers! Cost: £55

Evergreen Leaves
and Berries
December 13, 2013
Paint holly, ivy and mistletoe this holiday season. Cost: £55

Click on the image at left to view course details.

This information has been added to Classes Near You > Wales.

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Connected Educator Month at ArtPlantae

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events, Technology on October 1, 2013|

The US Department of Education has declared October Connected Educator Month (CEM) aimed at broadening and deepening educator participation in online communities and networks while providing opportunities for educators and education leaders to work together to move the field forward.

Connected Educator Month will be celebrated with more than four weeks of online events and activities, including forums, webinars, guided tours, open houses, showcases, launches, exhibits, contests, projects, badges, and more — dozens of national education organizations, communities and companies will take part this year, the second annual CEM.

ArtPlantae is a participating organization this year and will begin this busy month reaching out to the local community.

Visit ArtPlantae at the UC Riverside Botanic Garden this weekend as it launches a Teacher Trunk Show dedicated to botany and botanical art education. On Wednesday October 9, the trunk show moves to ArtPlantae’s retail area at the Aurea Vista marketplace in downtown Riverside where it will remain through October 31, 2013.

Also occurring this week is the Riverside ArtsWalk. Stop by the store to doodle the colorful gourds of Fall. Here is more information about this month’s Botany Craft Bar.

Connected Educator Month is an online celebration and because of this, the ArtPlantae Twitter feed will be especially busy. This is why you see it listed as the Featured Platform on your right. If you are on Twitter, follow us to receive updates as they happen. If you are not on Twitter, please visit ArtPlantae.com often to view what is being discussed.

Thank you for joining us online.

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ArtPlantae to Participate in Garden Festival at UC Riverside

Posted in botanical art, botanical art books, Education, gardening, general botany, Learning Opportunities, nature, Special Announcements, Special Events on October 1, 2013|

UCR Botanic Gardens
Celebrates 50 Years!
http://gardens.ucr.edu

The University of California Riverside Botanic Garden (UCRBG) is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a family garden festival. Demonstrations, lectures, a marketplace, and children’s activities are planned for this special event. The Garden is excited to announce the UCRBG Children’s Fund. Visit the festival to learn more about this new fund and how the Garden will begin its next 50 years as a teaching and educational facility promoting environmental sustainability.

Visit ArtPlantae in the garden as it kicks off a Teacher Trunk Show featuring children’s books about plants, instructional books about botanical art and exhibition catalogs showcasing the best of contemporary botanical art.

Teachers, what kind of resources about plants, nature and art do you want for your classroom? Stop by and let me know!

The UCR Botanic Gardens 50th Anniversary Festival is free and open to the public. Parking, $5. Hours: 10 AM – 4 PM.

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Learn All About Roses in Weekly Garden Series

Posted in botanical art, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, Special Events on September 25, 2013|

Learn about the world of roses tomorrow, September 26th, at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden.

Dani Hahn, one of the region’s finest rose growers, will examine the evolution of cultivated roses with insights on modern practices and varieties, as well as what’s to come for rose lovers.

Since 1998, Dani and her husband Bill have operated Rose Story Farm in Carpinteria, CA where they produce more than 120 varieties of fragrant, romantic cut roses – an assortment of which will be on view in class. Rose Story Farm has been featured in several magazines, including Martha Stewart Living, Oprah Winfrey’s O Magazine, and Victoria magazine.

To register for The World of Roses: Past, Present and Future with Dani Hahn, contact Jill Berry or call (626) 821-4623. Cost: $20, pay at the door.

This class is part of the series, Thursday Garden Talks with Lili Singer.
View all classes in this series

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Natural Science Illustrator Sets Sail on New Adventure

Posted in Education, Learning Opportunities, Sketching & Journaling, Special Announcements, Special Events, Technology, travel, Watercolor on September 24, 2013| 1 Comment »

Two years ago we learned from U.S. Coastguard licensed Captain Suzan Wallace during National Environmental Education Week. The 2011 theme for EE Week was Ocean Connections and back then she shared with us how she brought the ocean into her classroom.

Well, Captain Wallace is retired now and is enjoying retirement to its fullest. I am happy to report that she set sail yesterday and is sharing her journey via a video feed on the Ustream.tv channel she created. Please join me in congratulating Captain Wallace on her retirement and on embarking on her next big adventure!

What do video feeds from the ocean look like?

Visit Captain Wallace’s video log on the Ustream page, Voyages of the Sparrow.