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  • Thursday, July 15, 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm – A Feminist’s Guide to Botany: Online Botanical Painting Session

    Join London Drawing Group on July 15 at 1:30 Eastern time as we step inside the magical world of BOTANY for a summer-term special exploring the history of the heroic women artists, explorers and scientists that helped forge the way that we see the world around us!

    Drawing from both the rich history of female presence Botanical Art, as well as the inspiring stories of women botanical explorers through the ages, this class will be an incredible opportunity to immerse yourself in the work of artists such as Maria Sybilla Merian, Marianne North, Rachel Ruysch (painting pictured below) and others!

    The session will comprise a short visual lecture during which you will be able to make quick sketches if you choose from your own collections of plants or found leaves and flowers, then students will be led in some basic watercolour techniques and exercises to help you create your own Botanical Paintings!

    This will truly be a totally unique class and we are very excited to get drawing with you all! This lecture and all our classes are now ‘pay what you can’ so that we can reach those of you who are financially struggling during CV19. We suggest a donation of £15 but if you can’t afford that, we get it! Register HERE through Eventbrite. (Eventbrite will do the dollar conversion.)

    YOU WILL NEED A variety of plants, flowers, leaves or dried flowers to work from! You don’t need too many, just enough to make an interesting arrangement, but if you’re really caught short, just one or two houseplants or whatever you can collect from outside will be absolutely fine.

    WATERCOLORS OR GOUACHE, A VARIETY OF BRUSHES, FROM MOP HEADED TO THIN DETAIL BRUSHES, and WATERCOLOR PAPER

  • Tuesdays, June 3 – June 24, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm – 50 Shades of Grey (and White)

    Painting a white subject involves showing nuances of color and value without getting too dark.  Explore painting the shadows and leaving the highlights to describe the form – using many more than fifty shades and hues of grey.  In this Wellesley College Botanic Gardens class, to be held on Tuesdays, June 3 – 24 from 9:30 – 12:30, Sarah Roche helps you investigate the potential of your palette to create complex greys and compose a delicate, sensitive study.  Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens fee is $150, non-members $200.  Register by calling 781-283-3094, or email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu. Image of white lilac from www.etsy.com.

     

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  • Friday, January 17 – Sunday, January 19, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Botanical Painting with Watercolor: Master Class with Carol Woodin

    Gain confidence and comfort in this Berkshire Botanical Garden class devoted to techniques of botanical painting in watercolor. Using pomegranates as subjects, students will learn to capture the vitality and drama of these luscious fruits. After creating a base watercolor layer for guidance, artists will add a series of dry-brush layers, gradually increasing color intensity and form. Through demonstration and individualized attention, the instructor will guide students through mixing believable reds and maintaining color clarity. By the end of the class, each student will have a painting either finished or nearly so.  The three day class will be held Friday, January 17 – Sunday, January 19  from 10 – 4 at the Education Center at Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.  Bring a bag lunch.  A materials list can be found on the website, http://www.berkshirebotanical.org/ai1ec_event/botanical-painting-with-watercolor-master-class-with-carol-woodin/?instance_id=2433, where you may also register.  $320 BBG members, $360 nonmembers.

    Carol Woodin has been painting botanicals in watercolor for over 20 years. Her focus is orchids, rare plants and heirlooms. Her work is included in collections around the world, including those of the Smithsonian Institution, Shirley Sherwood Collection and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. As Director of Exhibitions for the American Society of Botanical Artists, she has organized exhibitions of botanical art throughout the US.

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  • Thursday, August 22 – Friday, August 23, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Botanical Painting with Watercolor Master Class with Carol Woodin

    Gain confidence and comfort in this Berkshire Botanical Garden class devoted to techniques of botanical painting in watercolor. Using anemones as subjects, students will learn to capture the vitality and drama of these flowers. After creating a base watercolor layer for guidance, artists will add a series of dry-brush layers, gradually increasing color intensity and form. Through demonstration and individualized attention, the instructor will guide students through mixing believable greens and maintaining color clarity.By the end of the class, each student will have a painting either finished or nearly so. Click here for Materials List.

    Carol Woodin has been painting botanicals in watercolor for over 20 years. Her focus is orchids, rare plants and heirlooms. Her work is included in collections around the world, including those of the Smithsonian Institution, Shirley Sherwood Collection and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. Director of Exhibitions for the American Society of Botanical Artists, she has organized exhibitions of botanical art throughout the US.

    This is a two-day course, August 22 and 23, 10 – 4. BBG members $260, nonmembers $290. Register on line at www.berkshirebotanical.org, or call 413-298-3926.

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