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Art in the Garden with Growcology & ArtPlantae

Posted in botanical art, botanical art books, Education, gardening, general botany, Learning Opportunities, Sketching & Journaling, Special Announcements, Special Events on July 10, 2013|

Introduction to Keeping a Garden Journal, © Tania Marien

Introduction to Keeping
a Garden Journal

Growcology and ArtPlantae join forces to bring experiences in botanical illustration to the garden!

Spend a leisurely summer morning in the Growcology garden learning about the history of botanical illustration and learning techniques you can use to create your own garden journal.

Participants will learn how to observe plants, how to assess a plant’s morphological features and how to record what they see in their journal.

View the schedule below to learn more.

To register, contact Selena at Art Growcology. Download flier

Itinerary for Saturday, August 3, 2013:

10:30-10:45
Participants introduce themselves, Q & A, workshop overview

10:45-12:30
Drawing in the Garden

12:30-1:00
Return to the barn for refreshments, lunch and the sharing of journals. Learn how you can take part in Growcology’s Fall Eco Art Show.

What to Bring:
Pencils, erasers, pen, any other art supplies, water, sack lunch, a smile and the desire to learn some art techniques while learning about plants!

Cost: $25
Age: 12 and older

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Visit ArtPlantae’s listing at Classes Near You > Southern California.

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Customer Appreciation Week at Aurea Vista

Posted in ArtPlantae Books, botanical art, botanical art books, Education, gardening, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on July 10, 2013|

It’s Customer Appreciation Week at Aurea Vista!

This week Aurea Vista and its merchants celebrate the enthusiastic customers of this new marketplace. Come into the store for cookies and take advantage of discounts from merchants such as:

Beyond the Olive – 10% off
Eyantia – 10% off
Trizzio – 10% off
All That Glitters – 10% off
CHOPT – 10% off
Vanity Haus – Buy One Get One Half Off
ArtPlantae – Up to 40% off books for the studio and classroom, sketchbooks, activity books for the garden

While at Aurea Vista, accomplish items on your To Do list. Visit the children’s boutique area for that next baby shower gift or child’s birthday gift. Browse the beautiful selection of yarn and how-to books at Raincross Fiber Art. Search for that perfect vintage piece of jewelry at Spirit Trail Studio or a stylish summer blouse at All That Glitters.

In need of stationery for a special occasion? Delights & Invites, a full-service stationery store, can help you plan your next celebration.

There is much to see and enjoy at Aurea Vista. Visit ArtPlantae
July 10-12 from 12:00 – 3:00 PM to make a bookmark for summer reading. Bring the kids, take a break from the heat and experience all Aurea Vista has to offer.

See you there!

Directions
Aurea Vista is located at 3498 University Avenue in Riverside on the corner of Lemon and University. Hours: Closed Monday, Tuesday-Saturday (11-7), Sunday (11-5). Store hours are extended for Riverside’s monthly ArtsWalk and other special events.

Parking: Free customer parking is available across the street in the parking lot with the ballet mural. Aurea Vista customers can park in spaces #1-8 that face University Avenue. Street parking is free after 5 PM Monday-Friday. Street parking is free on Saturday and Sunday. Street metered parking is $1 per hour before 5 PM.

Directions to Aurea Vista

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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

Tea for Two Camellia

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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MOR.PHOL.O.GY Exhibition at Sunbury Embroidery Gallery

Posted in botanical art, botanical art books, Education, gardening, History, Learning Opportunities, nature, Special Announcements, Special Events on June 18, 2013|

Five members of Amicus Botanicus, a painting group formed by graduates of the 2004 Botanical Painting Diploma Course at The English Gardening School, will take part in MOR.PHOLO.O.GY: An Exhibition of Botanical Art at the Sunbury Embroidery Gallery at Sunbury-on-Thames, near London. This exhibition opens on July 2, 2013 and will be on view through July 28, 2013.

Artist Louise Young says, “The gallery is a delightful little modern gallery within a lovely walled garden in the middle of Sunbury. It is close to Hampton Court Palace where the flower show will be held in July.”

In this exhibition, artists Linda McDonald, Mary Ellen Taylor, Louise Young, Caroline Jenkins and Shirley Slocock share their views of the natural world.

Be sure to also add to your calendar the presentation about orchids in art by Dr. Phillip Cribb, former Deputy Director and Herbarium Curator at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Dr. Cribb is the co-author of A Very Victorian Passion: The Orchid Paintings by John Day, a book about orchid enthusiast, John Day (1824-1888). This very inspiring book contains a sample of the more than 2,300 orchids painted by Day that are housed at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Dr. Cribb wrote this book with Michael Tibbs in 2004.

Mor.phol.o.gy
Sunbury Embroidery Gallery
Sunbury-on-Thames, England
July 2-28, 2013

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The Tradescants Introduce the Public to Fruit Trees

Posted in book review, botanical art, botanical art books, botany, Education, gardening, general botany, History, Learning Opportunities on June 12, 2013|

TheTradescantsOrchard There is a book about fruit that is surrounded by mystery and intrigue.

Is it a book?
Is it a catalog?
Is it a teaching tool about fruit trees?

The Tradescants’ Orchard is more catalog than book and, according to evidence of how often each painting has been handled, was also a teaching tool, according to authors Barrie Juniper and Hanneke Grootenboer.

Juniper and Grootenboer, together with the Bodleian Library, have published The Tradescants’ Orchard: The Mystery of a Seventeenth-Century Painted Fruit Book — a fascinating look at plantsman John Tradescant the elder, his son John Tradescant and their contributions to horticulture and the development of fruit orchards in 17th century Europe.

Originally called A Book of Fruit Trees with their Fruits (Juniper & Grootenboer, 2013), a photograph of this 400-year old manuscript is included in their book.

You are most likely already familiar with the Tradescants. The Spiderwort plants bear their family name (Tradescantia). Does this houseplant look familiar?

The Tradescant father and son team were responsible for introducing and raising many familiar garden plants (Juniper & Grootenboer, 2013). John Tradescant the elder was a sought-after plantsman in elite circles, operated a large nursery and, because of his extensive traveling, built an impressive cabinet of curiosities (Juniper & Grootenboer, 2013). When he died in 1638, John Tradescant the younger took over the family business and eventually became acquainted with Elias Ashmole.

This is where the story of the colorful manuscript containing 66 paintings of fruit and imaginary arthropods, frogs, birds, snails, a lizard and a squirrel gets very interesting.

Thought to be created somewhere around the 1620s or 1630s, The Tradescants’ Orchard was published when interest in growing fruit and when creating horticultural information for the public became popular (Juniper & Grootenboer, 2013).

Who commissioned the manuscript?

How did it end up at the Ashmole Museum?

What is unique about the paintings?

Much is explained in the forty-one pages of text leading up to Juniper & Grootenboer’s reproduction of The Tradescants’ Orchard. Their book is yet another wonderful chapter about the history of botanical art.

Literature Cited

Juniper, Barrie and Hanneke Grootenboer. 2013. The Tradescants’ Orchard: The Mystery of a Seventeenth-Century Painted Fruit Book. Oxford: Bodleian Library.

Available at independent bookstores. ($65)

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Bringing Plants Home

Posted in botanical art, gardening, Special Announcements, Special Events on June 5, 2013|

Earlier this spring, forty artists from southern California were selected to take part in an artist showcase benefiting Habitat for Humanity Riverside. Participating artists include Tania Marien of ArtPlantae.

Twenty-five of the artists will design doll houses and fifteen of the artists will design a wooden plaque supporting the theme, What does home mean to you?

Through their work artists will also respond to the question,
What would you build?

All art will go on a “Homes” tour that will begin in August. Artwork will be auctioned off and proceeds will help Habitat Riverside build new homes for local families. A website tracking the weekly progress of each artist is forthcoming. Until then, learn more about participating artists at the website of Habitat’s ReStore store in Riverside.

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Teaching Plants

Posted in Education, gardening, general botany, Learning Opportunities on June 4, 2013| 1 Comment »

iStock_TeachingPlants_ExtraSmall copy This weekend it was announced that the featured topic for June is Teaching Plants. We’ll take a look at how educators from various disciplines teach the public about plants.

There is probably no better way to kick this month off than with the collection of presentations being featured this week on TED: Ideas Worth Sharing. Guerrilla gardening, biodiversity, house plants, growing clothes, food choice, and the ecosystem of tree canopies are all featured.

View this wonderful collection now at Plantastic!.