Daily Archives: July 25, 2016

Saturday and Sunday, August 13 & 14, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Shine On: Summer Fruits and Vegetables in Colored Pencil

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Join botanical artist/illustrator Helen Byers at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston for a weekend focused on the forms and surface textures of shiny, smooth-skinned fruits and vegetables. Instruction will cover step-by-step techniques of detailed botanical drawing in colored pencil, including toning, underpainting, layering, and blending. Daily demos and personalized instruction. A list of recommended supplies will be sent to registrants. All levels welcome; some drawing experience helpful. To see galleries of Helen’s work and slideshows from her courses, visit helenbyers.com. The class will be held Saturday and Sunday, August 13 & 14 from 10 – 4. THBG members $130, nonmembers $145. Register at www.towerhillbg.org.

Through Monday, October 10 – Natural Threads

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Heritage Museums & Gardens, 67 Grove Street in Sandwich, is hosting ten artists this year for Natural Threads, this year’s seasonal outdoor art installation in the gardens. Their imaginative works interpret the theme of connected natural and synthetic fibers by bending, shaping, and linking natural elements of Heritage Museums & Gardens’ varied terrain.

The artists in this outdoor art installation use rope, cord, textiles, and branches among other materials to get us to pay close attention to aspects of Heritage’s peaceful environment. Heritage’s seasonal outdoor art installations inspire visitors to create and to view their familiar gardens in new ways.

Each artist competed and was selected by a jury panel for acceptance into the show. The artists featured this year are from Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, California, Mississippi, Utah and Pennsylvania. To create the art installations these experienced artists used knots, cables, ropes, mirrors, and yarn to express the passage of light, chaos and order, tree bark skins, and identity. Landscape configurations, webs, and woven lines figure into some of the pieces. One artist’s piece was inspired by rainwater and an ancient ceremonial drinking vessel. The sponsor of this exhibition is the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod.  Free with admission.  For hours of operation visit www.heritagemuseumsandgardens.org.