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Botanical Artists MeetUp in Texas

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Sketching & Journaling, Special Announcements on October 15, 2012|

Get the latest at Classes Near You > Texas!

A new MeetUp group has been formed in Texas. The Dallas-Fort Worth Botanical Drawing and Painting Group will have their first meeting on November 3, 2012. All are invited to participate in this launch meeting that will occur at River Legacy Park in Arlington.

Please visit the group’s MeetUp page to sign up and to begin learning about other botanical artists in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Artists must bring their own supplies. Artists of all abilities are welcome.

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A Different Kind of Botanical Art Class

Posted in botanical art, Drawing, Education, gardening, Learning Opportunities, Sketching & Journaling on October 15, 2012|

Ten weeks of botanical illustration and mixed media – online and at your own pace! Here’s the latest at Classes Near You > Alabama:


The Illustrated Garden, A Studio Blog
www.valwebb.com
Val Webb is Derwent Pencils’ Feature Artist for 2012!
She will post drawing tutorials each month at Derwent’s blog, Love Pencils. See Val Webb’s online tutorial, Botanical Drawing with Pencil and Watercolor. Connect with The Illustrated Garden on Facebook. For more information about the classes below, or to register, email Val Webb.

    Draw & Paint Six Culinary Herbs
    This new online class is a mix of botanical illustration, economic botany and gardening. Students will learn how to create pencil studies, ink-and-wash-sketches and mixed media paintings using watercolor and colored pencil. This 10-lesson, four month class begins on January 7. Students will have access to video demonstrations, instruction pages, examples, and assistance through a private password-protected website. Students work at their own pace and can access the website at their convenience during the four month class period. Cost: $50. View Details/Register

Also see Val’s upcoming classes in Mississippi…


Catch of the Day: Drawing Mississippi Gulf Marine Life
in Pen and Ink
Saturday, November 3, 2012; 10 AM – 3 PM. No experience necessary! All supplies and materials provided! Learn how to draw fish and shellfish using pen and ink. Location: The Mary C.O’Keefe Cultural Center, Ocean Springs, MS. Cost: $120 View Details/Register


Draw and Paint Holiday Botanicals
Saturday, December 1, 2012; 10 AM – 3 PM. No experience necessary! All supplies and materials provided! Celebrate the Christmas season and learn scientific illustration techniques to create drawings and paintings of seasonal plants using gouache and colored pencils. Location: The Mary C.O’Keefe Cultural Center, Ocean Springs, MS. Cost: $120 View Details/Register

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Restoring the Flora and Fauna in a Diorama

Posted in botanical art, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, Special Articles & Interviews on October 10, 2012| 1 Comment »

This morning Gary Hoyle explains how plant models in a diorama are restored. Our interesting conversation continues!


ArtPlantae: The dioramas in the Hall of North American Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) are in the process of being restored. The New York Times featured a story about the restoration last year. This article includes a behind-the-scenes video of diorama artists at work. The article focuses mostly on the restoration of mammals. My question to you is… what about the plants? The shrubs, grasses and trees surely fade over time like the fur of the mammals. How do you freshen up a 30-year old plant model?


Gary: Well, I guess I could give a general answer. A 30-year old model might need some cleaning with a gentle current of air from an air brush and the use of a dry sable or camel hair brush, and very likely it will need a color restoration because of prolonged exposure to exhibit lights. However, the truth is that every situation is different, and sometimes it’s necessary to consult with specialists such as painting and objects conservators especially when dealing with exhibit models more than 50-years old.

Learn more about restoring plant models

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Boerhaave Museum Participates in Seminar About Medical Illustration at Dijon University

Posted in Education, Learning Opportunities, scientific illustration, Special Announcements, Special Events on October 10, 2012|

Marie-Odile Bernez, project coordinator for the seminar series about images used in the service of science, has announced the 2012-2013 seminar schedule. Seminars will be held at Dijon University in France and will be given in English and in French.

Detailed descriptions about each seminar can be viewed on the Calendar page at the Illustrating Science website.


Scientific Illustration Seminars 2012-2013


October 26, 2012: Medical Illustrations

  • “The Eye and The Hand: Anatomist-Artist Co-operation on Two Dutch Anatomical Atlases (1685-1742)” – Tim Huisman, Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, Netherlands (English)
  • “Seizing the Cultures of ‘Medical Physics’ in the Nineteenth Century” – Josep Simon, University Paris Quest (English)
  • “Representing Delivery and Creating Obstetrics in Nineteenth-Century Spain Through Medical Textbooks” – Alfons Zarzoso, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona/Medical History Museum of Catalonia (Engligh)
  • “Perception of Lipoproteins and Atherosclerosis Through Their Visual Representation” – Elisa Campos, Lisbon (English)


January 25, 2013: Anatomical Illustrations

  • “Les petites lettres de l’anatomie” – Hélène Cazès Montreal (French)
  • “Entre mémoire et métaphore, le corps humain comme maison” – Etienne Lepicard, Jerusalem (French)


March 22, 2013: Engineering Designs

  • “Delineating a Rational Profession: Engineers and Draughtsmen as ‘Visual Technicians'” – Frances Roberson, Glasgow (English)
  • “Displaced Representation and Nationalistic Appropriation: Illustrating the Atlantic Cable of 1858” – Mark Niemeyer, Dijon (English)


May 24, 2013: Biased Images?

  • “Scientific Images in the Logical Empiricist Tradition” – Richard Gawne, Duke University (English)
  • “Aesthetics and News Values in Online Imagery of Space” – Phil MacGregor, Bournemouth (English)


June 7, 2013: Les Sciences et Leurs Vulgarisations par L’image

  • “Graver des figures de géométrie au XIXe siècle: procédés, acteurs et enjeux éditoriaux” – Norbert Verdier, University of Paris-South (French)
  • “Les illustrations dans les livres scientifiques pour enfants au 19e 
    siècle comme objets communicationnels” – Daniel Raichvarg, Dijon (French)


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Dioramas: Is there a place for them in the 21st century?

Posted in botanical art, Education, History, Learning Opportunities, Special Articles & Interviews on October 8, 2012|

ArtPlantae: In reviewing the literature about dioramas, I noticed that the educational value of dioramas is a topic that comes up often. In your article, Saved From the Trash, you state that dioramas are in danger of disappearing because they are considered to be “outdated displays.” How do you defend the value of dioramas when others want to replace them with, say, something more interactive?


Gary: There is a stark difference between an interactive exhibit and a diorama. Certainly interactive exhibits fit well with our cybernetic lifestyle. Dioramas do not, and that makes the diorama even more unique in today’s world. The “time freeze” in such an exhibit does not mean that the diorama is a contemplative and therefore outdated exhibit model. If done well, a diorama can evoke a powerful potential energy. Muscles straining on a tiger crouched in the grass or a ruffed grouse ready to bolt from cover can awaken something primal if we are willing to stop and really look. Publishers assumed that a child’s attention span was too narrow to read a book of over a hundred pages until J.K. Rowling blew that theory out of the water. The same is true of a diorama. I have seen young children, and adults too, thrill to that type of exhibit.

I have nothing against interactive exhibits. I actually think certain types of interactive exhibits keyed to elements within a diorama…

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Wildflowers and Native Plants in Line and Color

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, nature, Special Announcements, Special Events on October 8, 2012|

Laura Stickney: Aspects of Theodore Payne Foundation in Line and Color
Theodore Payne Art Gallery
Sun Valley, CA
Oct. 12 – Dec. 29, 2012

The Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants (TPF) invites you to the opening reception of the art exhibition celebrating the work of artist-in-residence, Laura Stickney. Luminous watercolors, richly colored oil paintings and seed-packet artist’s books will be on view. Created over the course of Laura’s one-year residency, each piece was inspired by the nursery, gardens, and other discoveries made at the Theodore Payne Foundation.

Laura Stickney is a graduate of USC with a major in printmaking. In addition to her work as an artist, Laura has taught art to all ages for 25 years at the well-known Barnsdall Art Park in Hollywood, and the art of printmaking at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Here are examples of the wonderful work Laura created during her residency. View the entire collection and learn from Laura yourself during the opening reception on Saturday, October 13, 2012. The reception will be held from
2:00 – 4:30 PM. The Artist Talk begins at 3:00 PM.

Many thanks to the Theodore Payne Foundation for this early look at the exhibition. Images and descriptions courtesy of The Theodore Payne Foundation.


Seed Packet Artist’s Books
Laura’s artist’s accordion books are based on Theodore Payne seed packets. Unfolded, they reveal delicate graphite drawings of selected native plants, a tiny clear bag of seeds, and a poem written by Laura and inspired by that plant.

Seed Packet Artist Book 3, mixed media © 2012 Laura Stickney, all rights reserved


Pod Paintings
Painted from life, Laura’s series of small oil paintings of native seed pods at TPF are densely packed with information, texture and color. The images are painted on repurposed, rectangular Polaroid metal film canisters. The use of discarded film containers is linked and refers back to Laura’s concept of light. In some way, the paintings refill those empty Polaroid vessels with new memories.

Matilija Pod, oil on Polaroid metal film canister © 2012 Laura Stickney, all rights reserved


Watercolors
Laura’s iridescent watercolors capture the beauty of sunlight and the colors of TPF. Conceptually layered, they focus on the place where nature and culture collide, where the nursery plants and the evidence of their caretakers intersect: a plant cart, a plant pot, a secluded corner of the garden. “All of my work is about still life,” Laura says. One could call these watercolors of nature and culture “environmental still lifes.”

Plant Cart, watercolor on archival paper © 2012 Laura Stickney, all rights reserved

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Attention all young naturalists in Cinncinati, Ohio!

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, scientific illustration, Sketching & Journaling on October 8, 2012|

Here is a class that looks too good to miss!


The Art of the Creepy Crawlies Science and Art Drawing Class
Saturday, October 27, 2012
9 AM – Noon

In this unique art and science class, students in grades 5-8 will learn about illustrations created by 18th century explorers, examine “creepy crawlies,” and create their own scientific illustration. Students will practice basic observational drawing techniques and will apply their observation and drawing skills using the resources of the Lloyd Library. This class will be taught by medical illustrator, Marcia Hartsock. Cost: $25

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