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Kellie Cox-Brady Creates Curriculum to Teach Advanced Botanical Illustration Online

Posted in botanical art, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, Special Articles & Interviews, Special Events on July 3, 2013|

How does one create an online course for advanced botanical illustration students?

Kellie Cox-Brady shares how she created the Advanced Botanical Illustration course at Cornell University.

Creating the Advanced Botanical Illustration course was a very wonderful and interesting experience. How I created the class was first keeping the same organization as the other two courses such as introductions, journals, homework and more. Once I had the overall layout of how the course would read, I filled in the details of the class including specific assignments, tutorials, techniques…

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Creating Murals for the Plant Sciences

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Articles & Interviews, Special Events on July 3, 2013|

Kellie Cox-Brady started painting murals last year. She recently added color to the plant science department at Cornell University. Join the conversation with Kellie, our special guest for July.

Find out how Kellie created these murals.

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See Kellie’s current mural project in-progress on her Facebook page.

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Paint the Collection at the Elizabethan Gardens

Posted in botanical art, Education, gardening, Learning Opportunities, Watercolor on July 3, 2013|

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.

Botanical Watercolor Workshop

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Linda Miller, Resident Botanical Artist at The Elizabethan Gardens, inspires participants to see, preserve and interpret the beauty of the garden during this unique workshop. Included is a walking tour of the garden and an opportunity to collect specimens. Artists will delight in Miller’s vested interest and skill in capturing the botanical world in watercolor and her ability to impart this mastery with the class.

This two-day workshop is open to all artists — beginner to advanced. Participants have the option of registering for an optional third day. Price includes admission to The Gardens.

Two-Day Class:
Members/Friends, $100; Non-Members, $120

Three-Day Class: Members/Friends, $150; Non Members, $180

Please contact Linda Miller for materials list.
Enroll at The Elizabethan Gardens by phone at (252) 473-3234.

This update has been posted to the Classes Near You sections for North Carolina and Virginia.

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Kellie Cox-Brady Discusses Botanical Art, Curriculum Development and Teaching Online

Posted in botanical art, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on July 1, 2013| 19 Comments »

Kellie Cox-Brady has merged her knowledge and experiences in horticulture, landscape design and botanical illustration to create a lifestyle many would envy.

Kellie is a natural science illustrator, though she prefers to call herself a “natural scientific artist”. Nature is truly Kellie’s inspiration. In addition to the technical illustrations you see in her online gallery, you will find botanical illustrations in pen and ink, striking silhouettes of Nature’s forms, and plants painted in bold colors.

Kellie also paints vibrant murals and designs curriculum. In fact, she helped create the advanced botanical illustration class for Cornell University’s online certification course offered through the Department of Horticulture and the Office of Continuing Education. This month she will talk about her work and answer your questions too.

Please welcome Kellie Cox-Brady, the featured guest for July!

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Never-before Seen Botanical Art Paintings to be Unveiled During London Art Week

Posted in botanical art, Education, general botany, History, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events, travel on June 26, 2013|

Victoria regia by Carl Ulke. Image courtesy of Crispian Riley-Smith Fine Arts Ltd. All rights reserved.

The Art of Botanical Pictures: Still Lifes and Plants

This exhibition will be presented by Crispian Riley-Smith Fine Arts Ltd during Master Drawings and Sculpture Week, part of London Art Week (June 28 – July 5, 2013).

This exhibition of botanical art features the work of father and son artists, Carl and Henry Ulke. The art in this collection has been kept within the family for many years and is coming out onto the market for the first time.

Henry Ulke in his studio. Image courtesy Crispian Riley-Smith Fine Arts Ltd. All rights reserved.

Carl Ulke (1791-1882) was a typesetter and publisher in Germany. His son Henry Ulke (1821-1910) was a writer, a photographer and a portrait painter. Born in Germany, Henry emigrated to the United States in 1852. He is best known for his portrait painting. Henry’s painting of President Ulysses S. Grant hangs in the White House and more than 300 of his portraits are in US government and private collections. Henry was well-connected to the presidents and was one of the few eyewitnesses to the death of President Lincoln. Henry painted botanical subjects on the side and he was also an avid collector of beetles. His beetle collection was purchased by the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, PA in 1900.

The Art of Botanical Pictures: Still Lifes and Plants includes 20 pieces by Carl and Henry Ulke. Also included in this exhibition are works by female Dutch artists, including Cornelia Maria Haakman and
Maria Margaretha Van Os.

All of this wonderful work and fascinating history will be on view for only one week. If you live near London or will be traveling in London during London Art Week (June 28 – July 5, 2013), stop by The Illustration Cupboard to see this exhibition.

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Free Botanical Art Fun for Families at J. Paul Getty Museum

Posted in botanical art, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on June 26, 2013| 1 Comment »

The Botanical Artists Guild of Southern California (BAGSC) will lead educational activities and conduct botanical art demonstrations at the J. Paul Getty Museum in conjunction with the exhibition Gardens of the Renaissance, now on view in the North Pavilion.

Visitors will learn about plants and have the opportunity to try botanical art techniques themselves. Look for the interactive BAGSC tables in the Getty’s Central Garden between 12:30 – 2:30 PM on the following dates:

Sunday, July 7, 2013
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Sunday, August 11, 2013

See what else is happening at The Getty on these days and through the rest of the year. Check out the Getty Event Calendar.

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Now Shipping – ‘Botanical Art into the Third Millenium’

Posted in ArtPlantae Books, botanical art, botanical art books, Education, History, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on June 25, 2013| 2 Comments »

Zingiber officinale (Ginger).© Ingrid Finnan. Collection of Shirley Sherwood. All rights reserved.

The exhibition catalog Botanical Art into the Third Millenium has arrived from Italy!

This catalog was published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name now on view at Museo della Grafica in Pisa, Italy. This exhibition features botanical art from all over the world and will be on view through July 15, 2013.

In an announcement about the exhibition, curators Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi and Alessandro Tosi write:

At the dawn of the third millennium, botanical painting constitutes a realm of expression of astonishing variety and vitality. In a tradition that has continued without interruption since the Renaissance, when artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer inaugurated a new vision and a new manner of interpreting the natural world, down through the centuries with the work of such great European artists as Jacopo Ligozzi, Maria Sibylla Merian, Nicolas Robert and Pierre-Joseph Redouté, the universe of Flora has provided art with some of its most enduring and fascinating motifs.

The aim of Botanical Art into the Third Millennium is to provide an overview of the latest and most original work being produced in this genre, in a geographic dimension without limits and reflecting the unique diversity and specificity of local environments.

This unique exhibition catalog is now shipping from ArtPlantae Books.
Pre-orders are being processed and shipped. New orders will be processed in a timely manner.

Here is more information about this wonderful piece of botanical art history:

Paperback, 244 pages and illustrations
Features over 150 pieces of art
Each two-page spread has one page in Italian and one page in English
Includes the work of Margaret Stones, Rory McEwen, Margaret Mee
Includes contemporary botanical art from the Shirley Sherwood Collection, such as the painting of Zingiber officinale (Ginger) by Ingrid Finnan above.

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Botanical Art into the Third Millenium is available for purchase at ArtPlantae Books. Order now to save on international shipping fees. While supplies last.