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Celebrate New Harvests with Billy Showell

Posted in ArtPlantae Books, Education, Special Articles & Interviews, Special Events on March 30, 2009|

ArtPlantae Books is hosting a meet-n-greet event in honor of the release of Billy Showell’s new book. Below is the timeline for this special online event:

March 23 – Review of Watercolor Flower Portraits at ArtPlantaeToday.com

March 30 – Review of Watercolor Fruit & Vegetable Portraits at ArtPlantaeToday.com Online author event with Billy Showell to launch Watercolor Fruit and Vegetable Portraits, at ArtPlantaeToday.com. You are invited to ask Billy questions about botanical art, her books, and her art. Send
questions to AskTheArtist@artplantae.com. Submit “Ask The Artist” questions anytime before April 13th.

April 13 – All “Ask The Artist” questions are due today.

April 20 – An Interview with Billy Showell at ArtPlantaeToday.com.

April 27 – “Ask The Artist” Q&A published ArtPlantaeToday.com.

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Observe, Connect & Create at the L.A. Garden Show

Posted in ArtPlantae Books, gardening, Learning Opportunities, Special Events on March 30, 2009|

Do you want to grow your own fruit and vegetables?

Are you looking for new ideas in garden design?

Would you like to turn your home into a cozy self-sufficient paradise?

What are you waiting for? Block off May 1st, 2nd, and 3rd on your calendar. Do not schedule other commitments for this weekend because you’ll be plenty busy at the 2009 L.A. Garden Show. Attend lectures, meet with landscape designers and fill your wagon with plants! ArtPlantae Books joins nurseries, plant societies, artists, and home & garden specialty merchants in the Marketplace to celebrate A Festival of Flavors.

ArtPlantae Books will encourage you to Observe, Connect and Create when you visit us. We have made arrangements for unique learning opportunities and activities. Here is a snapshot of what we have planned:

Saturday, May 2: Attention Young Gardeners! Meet the author and the illustrator of Wiggle and Waggle, Caroline Arnold and Mary Peterson. You will also meet author, illustrator and educator, Marianne D. Wallace.

Sunday, May 3: Meet the authors of The Urban Homestead. Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen will be signing their guide to self-sufficient living in the urban landscape. After you learn how to “grow food anywhere”, be inspired to draw and paint your harvest with botanical artist, Sally Jacobs who will be demonstrating her craft this afternoon.

See you in the garden!

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Colored Pencils and Paint Take Center Stage

Posted in botanical art, Special Events on March 28, 2009|

NEAR AND FAR
Botanical drawings in colored pencil and paint by Wendy Hollender

The Interchurch Center Corridor Gallery
475 Riverside Drive at 120th Street, New York, NY 10115, 212-870-2200
www.interchurch-center.org for directions

April 6 to May 8, 2009
Reception: Tuesday, April 7 from 4 to 7 pm
Artist demonstration: Tuesday, April 28 from 12 to 1:30 pm

Free parking on the day of the reception only in the building garage at 61 Claremont Avenue, after 4:30 pm.
Gallery hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm

Artist website: www.drawingincolor.com

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The Beauty Is In The Details

Posted in ArtPlantae Books, Special Events on March 23, 2009|

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Details, details.

Botanical artists chase details. They are obsessed with them. Fortunately, there is no shortage of instruction about how to capture details on paper in Billy Showell’s Watercolour Flower Portraits.

Artists reap the benefits of Showell’s hard work and experience as she generously shares what she knows about painting flowers, painting leaves, and painting stems in detail. Beginners will appreciate learning how to view specimens from a proper perspective, how to see patterns in nature, and how to approach drawing flowers, leaves and negative space. All levels of artists will appreciate the section dedicated to color mixing and the color combinations Showell recommends to paint 21 specific flowers and twelve specific shades of green.

Differentiating Billy Showell’s book and her upcoming book, Watercolor Fruit & Vegetable Portraits (April 2009), from other instructional botanical art books is the detailed instruction in each step-by-step demonstration. Short tutorials contain 3 – 5 photographed steps, while the four featured projects contain up to 39 photographed steps. Artists can learn a lot by completing the featured projects. They can learn how to place stripes and strong veining on the flower of a slipper orchid and how to paint the spotted pattern on a slipper orchid’s leaves. The lily project will test artists’ abilities to mix and manage shades of green and the rose project will turn artists into experts on how to paint stamen, serrated leaves, and prickles. The delphinium project requires artists to master a delicate touch in order to recreate the slight and elegant features of this plant. Showell’s clear explanations and descriptive photography about executing these and other essential techniques are the next best thing to being in a classroom.

Showell’s patient and thorough instruction ensures beginners and experienced artists alike will develop and refine the skills necessary to create their own flower portraits.

Purchase Watercolor Flower Portraits at ArtPlantae Books.
Are you a fan of Billy Showell’s artwork, books, and classes? Check out the current Ask The Artist event at ArtPlantae Today.
Next Week: A review of Watercolor Fruit & Vegetable Portraits

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“Ask The Artist” with Billy Showell

Posted in ArtPlantae Books, botanical art, Learning Opportunities, Special Articles & Interviews, Special Events on March 23, 2009|

Billy Showell is the author of Watercolor Flower Portraits and a five-time recipient of the Certificate of Botanical Merit, an honor awarded by the Society of Botanical Artists. ArtPlantae Books is pleased to host an author event celebrating the publication of Billy’s second book, Watercolor Fruit & Vegetable Portraits.

You are cordially invited to participate in a question-and-answer session with Billy Showell. Billy looks forward to receiving your questions. If you would like to ask Billy a question pertaining to botanical art, her books, her painting techniques, etc., please send your question to AskTheArtist@artplantae.com no later than Monday, April 13, 2009.

Learn more about Billy Showell at www.billyshowell.co.uk.

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Illustrating Ancient Plants

Posted in Special Announcements, Special Events on March 17, 2009|

This Spring there will be two opportunities to learn about re-creating plants from the fossil record.

On Thursday, April 23rd, Marjorie Leggitt will present The Science of Art: Recreating Earth’s Ancient Plants at the Denver Botanic Gardens. Ms. Leggitt will describe how scientific illustrators create plant life from impression fossils. She will also describe how she created ancient landscapes at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

Then on May 16th, Ms. Leggitt will present Tulips, Pineapple Trees and Dinosaurs at the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center. She will describe how artists work with paleobotanists to create visual interpretations of ancient plant life on earth.

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Sketchbook Adventures in Bavaria

Posted in Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events on March 16, 2009|

Postcards from… Bavaria
Castles, Monasteries, and Oktoberfest

Instructor: Marjorie Leggitt
Guides: Annie and Rolf Reiser
Dates: Thursday, September 23- Sunday, October 4, 2010 (10 days)
Price: approx. $3900 per person/double occupancy (airfare included)

Although the exact itinerary is still percolating, this adventure guarantees to offer some of the best sketching and painting opportunities in all of Europe. Participants will travel in private busses from Munich through the Bavarian alps and into Austria before returning to Munich. Daily art instruction focuses on particular subjects and/or techniques and each day provides free time for exploring museums, partaking of guided walks through a monastery or castle, or indulging in hand-crafted beverages at the local bier gardens.

More information to come.

Space will be limited on this workshop. Please let Marjorie know if you are interested. She is taking participants on a first-come basis.

Contact Marjorie at mcl@leggittdesign.com