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Year-round science illustration program begins in January

Posted in environmental education, Learning Opportunities on December 9, 2016|

Here’s the latest news at Classes Near You > New York:

Gretchen Kai Halpert
www.gretchenhalpert.com
Gretchen Kai Halpert is the founder and instructor of an online program in scientific illustration. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design/CE , Gretchen has many years of experience working as a scientific illustrator and teaching programs about natural science illustration.

Learn more about the distance learning program in scientific illustration at www.gretchenhalpert-distanceprogram.com. Check out her blog and enjoy the student artwork.

Scientific Illustration, Session I, Graphite

Develop strong drawing skills in graphite. Learn perspective, proportion, scientific conventions, lighting, textures, transferring, scanning, preparing work for website. Includes handouts, tutorials, live video conferencing, interaction with classmates. Students work in graphite and are introduced to crow quill with ink. This class is for both beginners and intermediate students. Advanced students should talk with Gretchen before enrolling.
Cost: $990 USD per 10-week session

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Scientific Illustration, Session II, Pen and Ink
January 11 – March 15, 2017
7:00-9:00 EST or email

This class includes: pen and ink techniques; use of crowquill on drafting film, bristol board and white scratchboard; developing composition, conducting research, anatomy studies, professional practices, final projects, handouts, tutorials, live video conferencing, interaction with classmates.
Cost: $990 USD per 10-week session

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Space available in upcoming class with Anne-Marie Evans

Posted in environmental education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements on November 22, 2016|

Class begins next week

Instructor and author Anne-Marie Evans will teach a one-week class
(November 28 – December 2, 2016), emphasizing three dimensionality and perspective. She has chosen Ilex verticillata (Winterberry) as the plant subject for this class. Plant specimens will be provided. Class will be held 10 am – 3 pm, daily. Cost: $650

If you are interested in this learning opportunity, please contact Botanical Artists for Education and the Environment (BAEE) at baee.info@gmail.com ASAP.

Location:

Columbia Baptist Church
103 West Columbia St. (Room 100)
Falls Church, VA 22046

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Capture the vitality of botanical subjects

Posted in botanical art, environmental education, Learning Opportunities on November 15, 2016|

The Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens invite you to express your artistic voice through composition in a three-day workshop with naturalist and international award-winning artist Hillary Parker.

Designed for students with intermediate to advanced drawing skills,
Expressing Your Artistic Voice Through Composition will be held
January 10-12, 2017 (9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.). Workshop participants will learn how to compose a drawing before making that first mark on their paper.

To register, please contact wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu or call (781) 283-3094.

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View all botanical art classes at Wellesley College Botanic Gardens here.

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Exotic flowers, forest ecosystems and botanical illustration

Posted in Education, environmental education, Learning Opportunities on October 28, 2016|

New York Botanical Garden
www.nybg.org
The New York Botanical Garden is home to one of the longest-running botanical art certificate programs in the country. View their current schedule online. Don’t miss what’s coming up this holiday season!

Flower Grouping

Oriental Lilies in Color
Wednesdays, 11/30/16 – 12/14/16
06:00pm – 09:00pm
Midtown Center, Room C
Instructor: Rose Marie James
These bold, exotic flowers make striking paintings. Learn the basic botany of the lily family while developing skills in painting the lovely, graded pinks of the “Stargazer” lily. Learn to make fluid color changes, as well as capture the textures of the flowers and the linear structure of the foliage. Prerequisite: Color Pencil I or Botanical Watercolor.
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Botanical Drawing I: Methods and Materials

Courtesy: New York Botanical Garden

Botanical Drawing I: Methods and Materials
Wednesdays, 01/11/17 – 02/15/17
06:00pm – 09:00pm
Midtown Center, Room C
Instructor: Laura Vogel
Accurate observation translates into sensitive, realistic drawings and is an essential skill for botanical artists. Using basic shapes, fruit, and leaves, learn contour drawing with an emphasis on proportion, and explore techniques such as foreshortening, perspective, and line weight.
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Courtesy: New York Botanical Garden

Eastern Woodland Habitat

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A new year of botanical art at Wellesley College Botanic Gardens

Posted in botanical art, environmental education, Learning Opportunities on October 25, 2016|

Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens Certificate Program in Botanical Art and Illustration
http://www.wellesley.edu/wcbgfriends
Our program offers several weekly and one- to three-day classes on botanical art with lead instructor and Education Director Sarah Roche as well as Carrie Megan, Carol Ann Morley, Esther Klahne, and many other visiting instructors from near and far. The courses offered through this program cover all aspects of botanical art. Along with Sarah’s twice-yearly offerings, Foundations of Botanical Drawing and Painting and the more advanced Techniques of Botanical Drawing and Painting, here is a brief overview of the 2016-2017 course offerings:

Carrie Megan’s Drawing Pine Cones; Assorted Vegetables & Herbs: Library Page; and Spring Flowers Decomposed
Liz Haywood-Sullivan’s smART Business: Creative Management Techniques for Artists
Carol Ann Morley’s Drawing in the Greenhouses: From Root to Tip and Colored Pencil Review
Jeanne Kunze’s Introduction to Watercolor: Three Colors and Mark Making Techniques: Your Inner Doodle
Hillary Parker’s Expressing Your Artistic Voice Through Composition and Mastering Washes
Esther Klahne’s Floral Collage: In the Style of Mrs. Delany
Ellen Duarte’s Introduction to Scientific Pen Techniques
Susan Fisher’s Color Mixing for Artists and Study the Masters
Ann Swan’s Pushing the Boundaries: Composition with Colored Pencil and Vibrant Colors and Tactile Textures with Colored Pencil
Sarah Roche’s beginner class, Drawing and Painting for the Petrified

Learn more about Wellesley’s certificate program

View current Programs, Courses, & Travel schedule

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Artists panel includes discussion of larger than life botanical art

Posted in environmental education, Learning Opportunities on October 5, 2016|

The TAG Gallery in Santa Monica will host an artists talk this weekend that includes Sally Jacobs, an L.A. botanical artist whose work is featured in the exhibition Larger Than Life. If you live in southern California and are a fan of botanical art, this is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about this genre.

Recently Los Angeles Times writer Lisa Boone called Sally’s work “captivating”. She also marveled how farmer’s market produce can “inspire more than just cooking“.

This weekend’s artists panel will also feature artists Ernie Marjoram and Jane Peterson. Visit TAG Gallery to learn more.

The TAG Gallery is located in Bergamot Station Arts Center. The panel discussion begins at 3 p.m. on Saturday, October 8, 2016.

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Master class in botanical art begins this week at Brookside Gardens in Maryland

Posted in botanical art, Learning Opportunities on October 2, 2016|

Brookside Gardens School of Botanical Art & Illustration Certificate Program
www.brooksidegardens.org
This program offers classes in botanical drawing, botanical painting, introductory botany, as well as classes specializing in specific art techniques and plant groups. View certificate requirements and deadlines, an online gallery, and the current newsletter here.

Coming this Fall:

Begins this week!

Rosehips: The Perfect Botanical Study

 Australian master botanical artist, John Pastoriza Piñol employs traditional and contemporary techniques to create the beautifully vivid art for which he is well-known. Students will learn the intricacies of achieving fine detail with watercolor masking fluid and NEEF ¼ Comb, invaluable tools for contemporary botanical artists. As a result, your paintings will be brought to a new level of realism and detail. Students should have skills in drawing and watercolor. John will assist you with painting the chosen class subject. John will show how masking fluid can be used to achieve very fine detail and will instruct students how to use the NEEF ¼ Comb. For intermediate and advanced students.

Cost: $345 / FOBG: $310
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Creative Color Pencil Workshop
November 1 & 8, 2016
10:00 am – 3:30 pm each Tuesday
Level: Beginner and above

Coloring books are all the rage! Join Tina Thieme Brown to discover how easily you can create beautiful color pencil drawings. This class will include demonstrations of color pencil technique using a variety of color pencils. Individual attention will be given to students of all levels in a creative color pencil exploration using fall fruits from the garden.

Cost: $175 / FOBG: $160
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