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  • Friday, June 10 – Sunday, June 12, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – More than Just Pretty Needles: Conifers

    Spend three days, Friday, June 10 – Sunday, June 12 studying conifers with the effervescent plant guru Dick Rauh.  He begins with the architecture and how to look for such things as the differences in the branching patterns, leaf forms, and cones.  Working both outdoors and in the classroom, he shows you how to apply observational and sketching techniques to the broader field of nature-sketching.  Using technical pens (pen and ink) on watercolor paper, learn eye-to-hand rendering for both the entire tree as well as its parts.  Drawing experience required.  The class, at the Wellesley College Botanic Garden in Wellesley, will run from 9:30 – 3:30 each day, and costs $250 for Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture members, and $300 for non-members.  To register, log on to www.wellesley.edu/WCFH, or call 781-283-3094, ext. 4.  The white pine study below by Betsy Gray Bell is available for purchase at www.fineartamerica.com.

  • Tuesday, September 1 – Thursday, September 3, 9:30 – 3:30 – Fern Morphology: Beyond the Fronds

    Spend three days at the Wellesley College Botanic Garden (September 1 – 3, 9:30 – 3:30) with Dick Rauh looking at and drawing ferns.  Learn to appreciate the variety of forms and the subtlety of color and texture that characterize them.  Study the fern life cycle, dissections, diagnostic characters and fern vocabulary.  With Dick’s guidance, compose these elements: a drawing of a frond or habit, details of pinna form, sori and scales into a scientific illustration in graphite or pen and ink.  Members of Friends of Wellesley Botanic Garden – $250, Non-Members $300.  Print a reservation form from the web site, www.wellesley.edu/WCFH, or send a check made payable to Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture and mail it to Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture, 106 Central Street, Wellesley, MA 02481-8203.