Everyone loves a challenge. An order came in this year for a woman who loves horses and rides at Myopia. The designer chose a black and red ribbon reminiscent of hunting jackets and black velvet helmets, and actually searched eBay for child’s stirrups which she painted with glitter. The jewels symbolize the prizes and pick up the red in the ribbon. Very successful and the client was thrilled.
Would you like to draw with pen and ink and learn how to work with the Crow-Quill pen? Then this Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Garden class on January 13 (rain date January 17) is for you. Through exercises and demos. instructor Carol Ann Morley will show you how to hold the pen to achieve different strokes, create textures and produce a variety of ink techniques like cross-hatch and stipple. Pen and ink has a unique language of its own with its expressive flowing lines and range of tonal depth. Explore the wonders of this unique medium and learn how to build your own visual vocabulary. This class will help give you the techniques and technical skills that you will need to proceed to representational ink drawings. You will be working with sepia ink. This class is perfect for beginners as well as those who wish to refresh their ink skills. Class will take place in the Putnam classroom at Elm Bank. Friends members $110, nonmembers $130. Register at 781-283-3094, or email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu.
