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Plants in Pencil at Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum

Posted in Education, Learning Opportunities on August 12, 2014|

Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
www.naturemuseum.org
Located in Chicago, the museum strives to create relationships between nature and people through their education programs, exhibitions, citizen science projects and research.

    Plants in Pencil
    Learn the how to use graphite pencil to illustrate nature with Suzanne Wegener, freelance illustrator and the Nature Art Education Manager at the Morton Arboretum. Suzanne will discuss materials, techniques and introduce botanical specimens each week. Come for one session or attend all four sessions. Advanced students will be given additional specimens. This class will be offered as a Tuesday series and a Wednesday series.

    Tuesday Series
    September 9, October 14, November 11 and December 9. Cost: $30. Class hours: 1-4 pm. Register for the Tuesday workshops here.

    Wednesday Series
    September 17, October 15, November 19, & December 17. Cost: $30. Class hours: 6-9 pm. Register for the Wednesday workshops here.

    To register by phone, call (773) 755-5128.

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

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Botanical Painting in Gouache

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities on August 12, 2014|

See what’s new at Classes Near You > New Jersey!


Carrie Di Costanzo
www.carriedicostanzo.com
Carrie Di Costanzo is a fashion illustrator who is now focused on botanical art. Her work has been exhibited in several ASBA exhibitions and has been published in The Botanical Artist and Colorful Edibles. View Carrie’s portfolio online.

Sustainability Fair for Families and Gardeners

Posted in Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on August 5, 2014|

ccmg_fair On Saturday, September 6, Contra Costa Master Gardeners (CCMG) is hosting their second annual community event promoting healthy gardening with a sustainable garden fair that features hands-on demonstrations, topical talks, a plant sale, and self-guided tours of “Our Garden,” the Master Gardener’s demonstration site in Walnut Creek.

“This day is designed to give each of us ideas on simple things we can do to help our environment. All of us making small changes can make a positive impact on the environment,” according to Laura McCauley, CCMG Association President of the all-volunteer organization.

The Second Annual Sustainability Fair will feature more than one dozen organizations demonstrating how people can create a sustainable lifestyle. Strategies to be discussed include recycling, seed saving, sheet mulching, smart-water usage and how to replace a lawn using drought-tolerant UC Davis Arboretum All-Stars. There will also be a Children’s Activity Center, vendors offering healthy local food and ongoing talks and demonstrations about removing your lawn, growing vegetables, raising chickens, beekeeping, beneficial insects, making good compost, and much more.

Judy Ryan, CCMG Sustainability Fair coordinator said she is excited to see so many other organizations joining together to promote sustainability in neighborhoods and communities.

The Second Annual Sustainability Fair will be held at the CCMG demonstration site at N. Wiget Lane and Shadelands Drive in Walnut Creek, CA (map).
Event hours are 10 AM – 3 PM.


Visit the 2014 Sustainability Fair

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Drawing Trees with Sarah Simblet

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities on August 5, 2014|


University of Oxford Botanic Garden
www.botanic-garden.ox.ac.uk
The University of Oxford Botanic Garden is a collection of 13 distinct gardens and seven display greenhouses featuring over 5,000 species of plants. The garden offers educational programs for the public and for teachers. Together with the Harcourt Arboretum, the University of Oxford Botanic Garden forms the Museums and Collections department at Oxford University.

View the complete schedule of classes to be held at both the Oxford Botanic Garden and the Harcourt Arboretum. The wonderful selection of classes address topics such as: invasive species, bees, woodland management, willow weaving, tree climbing, plant identification and botanical art.

    The New Sylva: Drawing trees with Sarah Simblet
    Saturday 27th September 2014
    10.00am to 4.00pm
    Venue – Harcourt Arboretum
    Tickets cost £60 (includes a sandwich lunch)
    Register

    This workshop explores the magnificent collection of trees at Harcourt Arboretum and offers tuition in how to draw a tree using pencil, pen and ink. Suitable for children and adults, beginners and more experienced artists, Sarah will explain approaches to drawing structure, form and proportion, how to use ink, and how to capture the diverse characters of Autumnal trees. Bring along your own sketchbook and other drawing materials will be provided.
    Sarah is a graphic artist, writer and broadcaster, who teaches at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford.


    Printmaking Workshop at the Botanic Garden with Robin Wilson and Rosie Fairfax-Cholmeley
    Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th October 2014
    10.00am to 4.00pm both days
    Venue – Oxford Botanic Garden
    Tickets cost £120 for the two-day course (includes a sandwich lunch on both days)
    Register

    Learn the techniques of traditional linocut printmaking with artists Robin and Rosie from The Wytham Studio. On this two-day course you will explore the Botanic Garden and transform your drawings into linocut prints.
    Robin and Rosie work with the reduction colour printing method which they will teach you to create successful colour prints. The entire process is done by hand with no large or prohibitively expensive equipment and their aim is to give you the confidence to continue experimenting on your own. The course will take you through sketching for printmaking, image composition, block preparation and image transfer, carving technique, inks and papers, inking up and printing.


    Imagining the Woods: Art from the Wytham Studio
    From Thursday 18th September until 31st October there will be an exhibition in the Gallery at the Botanic Garden by Robin Wilson and Rosie Fairfax-Cholmeley. (no booking required)

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

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Botany for Illustrators

Posted in Education on July 30, 2014|

Here is some news shared with me by a reader in Washington, DC. Sign up soon, this class begins in September.

Here is the latest at Classes Near You > Washington DC.


United States Botanic Garden (USBG)
www.usbg.gov
The U.S. Botanic Garden was established in 1820 and is managed by the U.S. Congress. The garden serves as a living plant museum. The Corcoran College of Art & Design has partnered with the USBG and offers a certificate in botanical art and illustration through the garden. For details about exhibits, lectures, tours, and workshops at USBG, visit their Events page.

    Botany for Illustrators
    United States Botanic Garden
    Washington, DC
    Begins September 2, 2014

    Illustrators will learn plant morphology and taxonomy. This class will be held on Tuesdays through October and on a Saturday in October.
    Cost: $325 Friends, $375 non-members.

    View Details/Register

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An Invitation to Explore Thorns, Spines and Prickles

Posted in botanical art, Education, Special Announcements, Special Events on July 23, 2014| 1 Comment »

By The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation

The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation invites you to view
Dangerous Beauty: Thorns, Spines and Prickles from September 18 to December 18, 2014. This exhibition includes artworks and books that depict the formidable and yet beautiful defensive structures of thorns, spines and prickles that have evolved to protect plants from predation. Featured are drawings, watercolors, prints and books displaying thistles, teasels, cacti, roses, berry brambles, stinging nettles and citrus trees.

The first step in appreciating these defensive structures is an understanding of what they are and how they differ from each other. In the most basic sense, thorns, spines and prickles can all refer to the sharp, stiff, woody defensive appendages found on some plants. Thorns are modified stems, as in Citrus Linnaeus. Spines are modified leaves, as in Echinocactus Link & Otto. Prickles differ in that they emerge from the epidermis, mesophyll or cortex of the plant, as in Rosa Linnaeus. Examples of these structures will be depicted in a variety of ways, from detailed scientific illustrations to loose interpretations, but all showing how beautiful these structures can be.

Left, Citron: Citrus medica [Citrus medica Linnaeus, Rutaceae], watercolor on paper by Marilena Pistoia (Italy), [pre-1984], 35 × 25.5 cm, for Laura Peroni, Il Linguaggio del Fiori (Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori, 1984, p. 53), HI Art accession no. 6773.20, © 1984 Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan, All rights reserved. Center, Teasel [Dipsacus Linnaeus, Dipsacaceae], watercolor on paper by Celia Crampton (Africa/England), 2003, 37 × 28 cm, HI Art accession no. 7586, © 2003 Celia Crampton, All rights reserved. Right, Rosa canina L. [Rosa Linnaeus, Rosaceae], watercolor on paper by Petr Liska (Czech Republic), 1981, 24 × 16.5 cm, HI Art accession no. 6463, © 1981 Petr Liska, All rights reserved.

Left, Citron: Citrus medica [Citrus medica Linnaeus, Rutaceae], watercolor on paper by Marilena Pistoia (Italy), [pre-1984], 35 × 25.5 cm, for Laura Peroni, Il Linguaggio del Fiori (Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori, 1984, p. 53), HI Art accession no. 6773.20, © 1984 Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan, All rights reserved.
Center, Teasel [Dipsacus Linnaeus, Dipsacaceae], watercolor on paper by Celia Crampton (Africa/England), 2003, 37 × 28 cm, HI Art accession no. 7586,
© 2003 Celia Crampton, All rights reserved.
Right, Rosa canina L. [Rosa Linnaeus, Rosaceae], watercolor on paper by Petr Liska (Czech Republic), 1981, 24 × 16.5 cm, HI Art accession no. 6463, © 1981 Petr Liska, All rights reserved.

Artists represented are Marie Angel (England, 1923–2010); Diana Carmichael (United Kingdom/South Africa, 1926–2010); Louis Claude de Chastillon (France, 1639–1734); Celia Crampton (Africa/England); Anne Ophelia Todd Dowden (United States, 1907–2007); Raymond Dowden (United States, 1905–1982); Georg Dionys Ehret (Germany/England, 1708–1770); Henry Evans (United States, 1918–1990); Alejandro Gavriloff (Estonia/Argentina, 1914–1993); Lucretia Hamilton (United States, 1908–1986); Charlotte Hannan (Germany/United States); Jeanne Russell Janish (also Mrs. Carl F. Janish; United States, 1902–1998); Christabel King (England); Carl Ignaz Leopold Kny (Germany, 1841–1916); Paul Landacre (United States, 1893–1963); Dorika Leyniers de Buyst (Belgium); Chrissie Lightfoot (England); Petr Liska (Czechoslovakia); Stanley Maltzman (United States); Yoshikaru Matsumura (Japan, 1906–1967); Roderick McEwen (Scotland, 1932–1982); Joan McGann (United States); Jeni Neale (also Jeni Barlow; England); Gunnar Normann (Sweden, 1912–2005); Marilena Pistoia (Italy); Frantisek Procházka (Czechoslovakia, 1911–1976); Pierre-Joseph Redouté (Belgium, 1759–1840); Elizabeth Rice (England); Nicolas Robert (France, 1614–1685); Christian Schkuhr (Germany, 1741–1811); Geraldine King Tam (United States); Gesina B. Threlkeld (Netherlands/United States); Unknown artist (Mexico, fl.1787–1803), Torner Collection of Sessé & Mociño Biological Illustrations; Unknown artist (United States, fl.1900s), USDA Forest Service Collection; Frederick Andrews Walpole (United States, 1861–1904). A selection of rare books from the Hunt Institute Library collection also is included in this exhibition.

Join us Thursday, September 18, 2014 from 5–7 PM for an opening reception. At 5:30 PM Assistant Curator of Art Carrie Roy will give a short introduction to the exhibition in the gallery. We will also open on Saturday, October 11, 1–4 pm, during Carnegie Mellon University’s Cèilidh Weekend festivities. Docent–led tours will be available throughout the afternoon.


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Cabinet of Curiosities
During Fall 2014, The Hunt’s Cabinet of Curiosities will highlight books from the Library’s collection featuring plants with thorns, spines and prickles. Humans are often undeterred by these sometimes pain-inducing plant features, finding that their sharpness can serve a purpose or that the plant is useful despite the pricks and jabs one might incur. Visit the Cabinet in the library’s lobby to explore how these plants have been utilized.

The exhibition will be on display on the 5th floor of the Hunt Library building at Carnegie Mellon University and will be open to the public free of charge.
Hours: Monday–Friday, 9 AM to Noon and 1–5 PM; Sunday, 1–4 PM (except November 23 and November 27-30). Because hours are subject to change, please call or email before your visit to confirm. For further information, contact the Hunt Institute at 412-268-2434.


About the Institute
The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, a research division of Carnegie Mellon University, specializes in the history of botany and all aspects of plant science and serves the international scientific community through research and documentation. The Institute meets the reference needs of botanists, biologists, historians, conservationists, librarians, bibliographers and the public at large, especially those concerned with any aspect of the North American flora.

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Exhibitions Examine Art, Nature, Gardens & Food

Posted in Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Events on July 23, 2014|

Looking for a fun summer excursion?

Begin your search on the Exhibits to Visit page. Many events have been posted during the past week. Birders, botanical illustrators and naturalists are sure to find something of interest. Here are the most recent entries:

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