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Botanical Art Retreat in Historic Santa Fe

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, travel on May 27, 2014|

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Lisa Coddington
www.lisacoddington.com
Lisa Coddington is an artist, instructor and the owner of True Gesso Panels, archival gesso panels for painting and silver point.

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Join Lisa in beautiful historic Santa Fe while autumn lingers for a 2-day Botanical Art retreat. Two art sessions offer botanical drawing, and watercolor glazing techniques. Autumn art subjects are ideal for beginner and experienced alike. Lisa teaches Botanical Drawing and Watercolor at the University of New Mexico and Santa Fe Community College. Her art is represented in galleries in South Carolina and Santa Fe.

INCLUDES: 3 nights (Oct 19, 20, 21) at charming Santa Fe B&B, admission to Georgia O’Keefe Museum, historic walking tour, admission to the new Santa Fe Botanical Garden, breakfasts, two artists’ lunches, parking, and wi-fi.

B&B is a short walk to Canyon Road Art Galleries, historic plaza, restaurants, shops, and museums. Santa Fe is a 1-hour flight or 6.5 hour drive from Denver via I-25.

ASBA Member Cost: $920.00
Non-member: $950.00

Deposit payment: $500.00 due by July 20, 2014.

Final payment due Aug 20, 2014 -– no refunds after August 25, 2014
Payable by credit card, check, or money order to Lisa Coddington.

Group rate is available one week before and one week after the art session.

For Further information contact Lisa via email or call 315-256-8639.

Supply list is available after registration.

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Open! Registration for the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Conference

Posted in Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events, travel on May 20, 2014|

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Botanical Illustration at Lake Mead Visitor Center

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events, travel on April 22, 2014|

This weekend Donald Davidson, the Traveling Artist for the National Park Service, will lead an introductory class in botanical illustration at Lake Mead Visitor Center near Boulder City, Nevada.

Botanical Watercolor
Saturday April 26th
Sunday April 27th
8:30 am to 12:00 pm

Donald Davidson is a known watercolor artist, painting the plants of National Parks, all across the U.S. Sign up today for this incredible chance to learn how Davidson works through the intricate process of recording beauty with paint and brush. This is a two-day workshop and some supplies will be provided. The fee is $85 per person. Space is limited.

To register, please contact Lake Mead Visitor Center at 702-293-8990. The visitor center is open Wednesday through Sunday 9 am to 4:30 pm.

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Botanical Drawing at The Ruskin with Sarah Simblet

Posted in Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, travel on March 19, 2014|

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Short Course at The Ruskin: Botanical Drawing

Artist, author and teacher,
Sarah Simblet, will teach a one-week short course in botanical drawing this summer. Her summer course complements the beautiful and highly regarded book, Botany for the Artist.

Students will spend a week in the drawing studios at The Ruskin School of Drawing and at the Oxford Botanic Garden. They will learn a range of drawing techniques and study plants in Oxford’s historic garden. This short-course will occur August 25-29, 2014. To learn more, click here.

While on the course website, be sure to click-through to read about Sarah’s current project illustrating trees for the The New Sylva, a book about British trees inspired by the world’s first comprehensive study of trees that was published in 1664. This new title is now available for pre-order. Order this book through the Sylva Foundation’s website and 100% of the proceeds will go towards their charitable work with forests.

Information about Sarah Simblet’s summer course has been added to
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Explore Art Archives of Europe

Posted in botanical art, Education, Special Announcements, Special Events, travel on March 4, 2014|

The 4th Annual Arts and Archives Tour led by the Denver Botanic Gardens’ School of Botanical Art and Illustration will occur April 25 – May 10, 2014.
Travel to London, Geneva, Lyon and Paris. Explore the Lindley Library, the Kew Gardens’ Library and Archives, the Louvre, and the Natural History Museum in Paris where you will see the largest and oldest herbaria in the world. You’ll also visit the Palace of Versailles, a tapestry museum, the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art and attend the annual exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists. This special tour also includes a visit to the manufacturing site of Caran d’Ache colored pencils.

There are only two spots available. Reserve your seat today!

View the tour itinerary on Botanical Illustration, the blog by Mervi Hjelmroos-Koski, Manager of the School of Botanical Art and Illustration at Denver Botanic Gardens.

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This Weekend! Botanical Illustration in Hawaii

Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, travel on February 25, 2014|

Raspberry Frost Banksia (Banskia menziesii), watercolor, 22x30". © Sharon Birzer, all rights reserved.

Sharon Birzer
www.sharonbirzer.com
Scientific illustrator Sharon Birzer is a teaching artist at Seattle Pacific University and Frye Art Museum, and has completed illustrations for the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington. Sharon shows her work at Shift Collaborative Studio in Seattle, Washington.

Her work is currently on view in the exhibition Drawing on Nature: Flora and Fauna at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle (January 15 – April 1, 2014). This exhibition features the work of members from the Northwest Chapter of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators and The Pacific Northwest Botanical Artists’.

Art in the Garden: One-Day Botanical Illustration Workshop

The National Tropical Botanical Garden is offering a one-day botanical illustration workshop with natural science illustrator Sharon Birzer. For beginning and intermediate artists, ages 15 and up. Students will work in watercolor. This workshop will be taught at the Harrison Chandler Education Center, National Tropical Botanical Garden Headquarters Campus at 3530 Papalina Road, Kalāheo.
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Paint Wildflowers of the Mojave Desert

Posted in Education, Learning Opportunities, Sketching & Journaling, travel on February 18, 2014|

Botanical Illustration of Desert Flora
Desert Studies Center, Zzyzx, CA in the Mojave National Preserve
Apr 11-13, 2014 (Friday night to Sun afternoon)

Learn how to draw artistic and realistic flowering plants in a way designed to understand the form, function, and identification of native plants. Exciting
hands-on experience both in the lab and in the field amid native flora habitats. Techniques in pencil, pen, and watercolor. Learn how to:

Focus on comprehensive line drawing stressing contour, volume and perspective.
Make drawings of minute structures to full-scale renditions of plants.
Understand how artistic and scientific skills work together.

This 1-unit field study course is based at the Desert Studies Center (of California State University) located within the Preserve at Soda Springs (Zzyzx), about an hour outside Las Vegas, about a three-hour drive from Riverside. The course fee includes two nights’ lodging at the Center (dormitory rooms & some couples rooms), and fresh cooked breakfast and dinners; bag lunches and tapas on Friday night. Participants will be sent information via email about the Center and what to bring with them. NO VEHICLE REQUIRED ONCE YOU ARRIVE, so great for car share to and from this special location. Cost: $325

Instructor Donald Davidson is an artist with over 500 pieces of art featured in the Traveling Artist Wildflower Project with the National Park Service.

Course Schedule:
Friday, April 12: 8-10 p.m.
Saturday, April 13: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday, April 14: 8 a.m.- 2 p.m.

Registration Deadline:
Register by March 28, 2014. Cite registration # 124−CPF−F61

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