Summer classes with artist Susan T. Fisher have been announced at Wellesley College Botanic Gardens in Wellesley, MA.
Here is the latest at Classes Near You > Massachusetts.
Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens
Certificate Program in Botanical Art and Illustration
www.wellesley.edu/wcbgfriends
This program offers several weekly and two- or three-day classes on botanical art and scientific illustration with Sarah Roche and Jeanne Kunze and and visiting instructors. The courses offered through this program cover all aspects of botanical art. Here is a peek at the 2012-2013 schedule:
- Graphite Fundamentals: Basic Drawing Skills
- Learning Botany by Drawing
- Leaves 101
- Plant Painting for the Petrified
- Photoshop Demystified
- Extreme Lumps and Bumps
- smART Business
- Colored Pencil Fundamentals
Summer 2013 Classes
Don’t miss these summer classes with visiting artist, Susan T. Fisher!
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Turn on the Lights!
Friday, July 26 – Sunday, July 28, 2013
9:30 AM – 3:30 PM BAC 14 132
Go beyond flat botanical drawings with Susan Fisher. Graphite exercises shift your work from blah to bright and show how values enhance any illustration. Create art to grab the viewer; express a three dimensional quality, and fully express the important characteristics of the plant. Make better choices at the beginning of a piece to avoid a big “fix” at the end. Using supplied colored pencils, discover unusual approaches to seeing color and eliminate poor color choices forever. All skill levels. Cost: WCBG Friends Members $350 / Non-Members $440
Optimizing Colors in Botanical Paintings
Tuesday, July 30 – Thursday, August 1, 2013
9:30 AM – 3:30 PM BAC 14 114
You understand how to mix color, now focus on a systematic method for manipulating color to create your vision. How do you optimize color mixtures in your botanical watercolors? Do you use washes or glazes? Do you mix colors on the paper or on the palette? When you need to make adjustments what do you adjust first – value, hue or chroma?
Increase your ability to make good color choices for different painting situations in a series of fun exercises with Susan Fisher. Learn to anticipate drying shifts and how they affect your work. Recognize various lighting aspects and see how they encourage or derail color choices. Focus on the challenging qualities of plant/vegetable specimens to practice color-mixing possibilities. A selection of watercolor exercises will guide students in the skillful use of warm or cool; light or dark; vivid or neutral colors; and related darks in botanical paintings. Although minimal drawing is needed, some watercolor experience mixing colors is required. Cost: WCBG Friends Members $350 / Non-Members $440
To register: email: wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu or call (781) 283-3094
Learn more about Wellesley’s certificate program.
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