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ArtPlantae Travels to the 14th Annual Meeting & Conference of the American Society of Botanical Artists

Posted in ArtPlantae Books, botanical art books, Special Events on October 29, 2008|

ArtPlantae is excited to participate as an exhibitor at the ASBA conference in Pasadena. This year’s conference is hosted by the Botanical Artists Guild of Southern California.

Will you be attending the ASBA conference? Then please stop by our booth. We’d love to meet you! Conference attendees will have the opportunity to view The Botanical Palette: Color for the Botanical Painter by Margaret Stevens and members of The Society of Botanical Artists. They will also have the opportunity to submit questions to SBA artists participating in the current Ask The Artist Q&A.

To date we’ve received questions pertaining to blocking, creating colors by glazing, color choices for reproduction, and more. What do YOU want to know?

Submit questions to asktheartist@artplantae.com now through November 2, 2008.

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Exclusive Look at Fruit & Vegetables

Posted in ArtPlantae Books, botanical art books, Special Events on October 23, 2008|

Readers of the ArtPlantae Today are treated to an exclusive sneak a peek of Billy Showell’s new book, Watercolor Fruit & Vegetables. Showell’s book will be published in February 2009 and is the follow-up to her successful instructional book, Watercolour Flower Portraits.

ArtPlantae Books will display an uncorrected proof of Showell’s new book at the conference of the American Society of Botanical Artists next week and will be accepting pre-orders for this hot new title. While the Exhibitors’ Hall is open to registered conference guests only, the uncorrected proof will be available for viewing at the following venues:

Be the first to receive a copy of the press release distributed by Search Press USA. To pre-order this title, print the pre-order form and mail or fax it to ArtPlantae Books. Your credit card will be charged in January 2009. An email reminder will be sent to you before your card is charged.

Alternatively, you can add your name to our Interest List at referencedesk@artplantae.com. Please write “SHOWELL” in the subject line.

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The Society of Botanical Artists Wants To Chat With YOU!

Posted in ArtPlantae Books, botanical art, botanical art books, Special Articles & Interviews, Special Events on October 16, 2008|

Fourteen members of The Society of Botanical Artists will participate in the Ask The Artist Q&A. Below is a list of participating artists, their websites and references to their work. View and study their work and think about what you would like to ask them. You will be able to submit your questions beginning next week and will have a two-week window during which to submit questions.

Study. Think. Ask.

Get your list ready!
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Participating Artists & References to Their Work:

A = The Art of Botanical Painting
B = The Botanical Palette: Color for the Botanical Painter

Sandra Wall Armitage
www.watercolourflowers.co.uk
B: Poppy, p. 84
B: Echinops, p. 132

Kathleen Baker
B: Acanthus Seed Heads, p. 102

Susan Christopher-Coulson
www.floraleyes.co.uk
A: Leucadendron, p. 34
B: Iris, p. 62
B: Tulip, p. 112
B: Kitchen Garden Purples, p. 140

Sally Crosthwaite
www.sallycrosthwaite.co.uk
A: Hatfield Tulips, p. 6
A: Agapanthus, p. 76
B: Nerines, p. 131

Susan Dalton
A: Paeonia lutea x Delavyi Group, p. 135
B: Flowering Teasel, p. 128
B: Garlic Braid, p. 141

Brigitte Daniel
A: Sulphur Tuft, p. 64
A: Pelargonium, p. 68
A: Snowdrop, p. 137
B: Primula auricula ‘Old England’, p. 9
B: Himalayan Poppy, p. 52

Paul Fennell
A: Orange Parrot Tulip, p. 72
A: Ornamental Corn, p. 139
B: Sunflower, p. 28

Susan Hillier
SBA Member Gallery
B: Peony, p. 92

Jennifer Jenkins
B: Cyclamen, p. 80

Annie Morris
www.anniemorris.uk.com
B: Blue Hydrangea, p. 51

Kay Rees Davies
www.nwsfa.org.uk
A: Ivy, p. 50
A: Scotch Bonnet Pepper & Long Sweet Pepper, p. 113
A: Onions, p. 113
B: Rhododendron, p. 24
B: Camellia japonica ‘Anemoniflora’, p. 133

Janet Whittle
www.janetwhittle.co.uk
B: Peonies, p. 10

Valerie Wright
SBA Member Gallery
A: Surinam Rainforest, p. 118
A: Rosa rugosa, p. 128
B: Red Hemerocallis, p. 78

Margaret Stevens
SBA Member Gallery
A: Bird of Paradise, p. 38
A: Hybrid Himalayan Poppy, p. 43
B: Lily, p. 16

UPDATE: Q&A published on November 20, 2008. Read it here.
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Plant Groups Difficult to Understand & Identify

Posted in botany, Education, Special Events on October 14, 2008|

Enhance your ability to key out those plants that can ruin your day! Attend the 34th Annual Symposium of the Southern California Botanists this Saturday (Oct. 18th) at the Ruby Gerentology Center at CSU Fullerton.

Tackle grasses with Dr. J. Travis Columbus, delphiniums with Dr. Jason Koontz, the Polemoniaceae with Dr. Leigh Johnson and Mark Porter, oaks with Fred M. Roberts, Jr., Cryptantha with Dr. Michael Simpson, Camissonia with Dr. Warren Wagner, and Ceanothus with Dr. Dieter Wilken.

For more information about this symposium, visit the website of the Southern California Botanists.

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Join the Conversation with Margaret Stevens & The Society of Botanical Artists

Posted in ArtPlantae Books, botanical art, botanical art books, Special Articles & Interviews, Special Events on October 9, 2008|

Ask the Artist: Margaret Stevens & The Society of Botanical Artists
October 9 – November 20, 2008

You have read about how they work and have seen the step-by-step development of their paintings. Now you have the opportunity to submit questions to Margaret Stevens and members of The Society of Botanical Artists (SBA) during the Ask The Artist event for Fall 2008. Here is how this event will progress:

October 16, 2008
A list of artists participating in the Ask The Artist session will be published. Study their work in The Art of Botanical Painting and The Botanical Palette: Color for the Botanical Painter get your questions ready!

October 20 – 30, 2008
Submit your questions to asktheartist@artplantae.com.
Will you be attending the 14th Annual Meeting and Conference of the American Society of Botanical Artists? Visit us in the Exhibitors’ Hall and submit your questions in-person. We’d love to meet you!

November 3 – 14, 2008
Margaret Stevens and SBA members read and respond to your questions. Their responses will be posted at ArtPlantae Today on November 20th.

November 20, 2008
The Ask The Artist session is published at ArtPlantae Today.
Read, Learn, Comment.
Contribute to our gathering place!

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West Hollywood Book Fair: Activities, Maps, etc.

Posted in ArtPlantae Books, Special Events on September 26, 2008|

The Book Fair schedules for all 12 Stages and the Writing Room are up at the book fair’s web site, as well as a list of exhibitors and their booth numbers. The West Hollywood Book Fair line-up includes:

150+ book stores, authors & literary orgs selling books, hosting fun literary activities, LIVE ART! and book signings. Exhibitors List
8 Author Panel Stages featuring several hundred outstanding authors like Ray Bradbury, Steve Lopez, Sandra Tsing Loh, Adrienne Barbeau, Ed Begley Jr., Francesca Lia Block, Gregg Hurwitz & Many Other Incredible Guests! Schedule
3 Theatre, Performance, Storytelling & Poetry Stages. Schedule
A Kids’ Stage featuring theater, story readings, a ballet & more! Schedule
Writing Workshops featuring some of LA’s most talented writers. Schedule
A Comics & Art Scene! featuring comic book and sci-fi legends like Len Wein, David Gerrold & Larry Niven. Schedule

Directions & Parking (29 KB)

Shuttle Schedule (28 KB)

Book Fair Map (2.7 MB)

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An Invitation to Experience Shadow Drawings of California Native Plants

Posted in Special Events on September 3, 2008|

The Theodore Payne Foundation will host an exhibition of work completed by Pamela Burgess, their first Artist-in-Residence. Pamela Burgess has created a gallery of images that are familiar and foreign at the same time. Her work will make you think, “I’ve seen this image before,” and then immediately follow this thought with the question, “But where?”

Beautiful and mysterious, Pamela’s drawings cause viewers to be still and to contemplate what they might be missing in nature.

Pamela Burgess has extended a personal invitation to ArtPlantae Today subscribers:

Hello Fellow Artists and Readers –

I would like to personally invite all of you to my show which opens in October at the Theodore Payne Foundation in Sun Valley, California. Although my shadow drawings are not concerned with scientific accuracy – they’re interpretations – they pay homage to the tradition of botanical art and illustration, which I greatly admire and love.

See you at the show!
Pamela Burgess

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Radiant Light – Shadow Drawings of California Native Plants
Theodore Payne Foundation
October 1 – December 31, 2008
Directions

Pamela Burgess, Nature-based Art
www.pamelaburgess.com