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  • Friday, May 20 – Sunday, May 22, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Composition Challenge

    Helen Allen returns to the Wellesley College Botanic Garden for a three day workshop May 20 – 22 from 9:30 – 3:30.  Plant studies, colors, and drawings are fun part of creating a beautiful painting, but the challenge is always in composing the page.  Helen Allen leads the challenge to create an image that is balanced and draws the viewer to have a closer look – an image that can enchant and inform.  Through three days, you will fall in love with your chosen plant, study its habit, and develop drawings that can be used to compose three different paintings.  Identify blocks and position of color and study the balance of your compositions.  Then, choose the best and spend a day adding color to guide you in completing the painting at home.

    A textile designer-turned-teacher, Helen attended the English Gardening School in the Chelsea Physic Garden where she gained the prestigious Diploma in Botanical Painting and Illustration.

    Wellesley Friends $375, nonmembers $475.  Register by calling 781-283-3094.

  • Saturdays, April 4, 11, 18, & 25, 9:30 am – 11:30 am – The Art of Botanical Drawing

    Explore the beauty and variety of plant forms using pencil, watercolor, and colored pencil with instructor Erica Beade. This four-week course, to be held on Saturdays from April 4 – 25, 9:30 – 11:30 at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, will introduce botanical drawing techniques through close observation and practice with contour, gesture, foreshortening, shading, and color. All skill levels are welcome. Fee is $95 for HMNH members, $110 for nonmembers. Advance registration required at http://reservations.hmsc.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?EventID=11.

  • Tuesday, January 13 – Thursday, January 15, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – From the Market: Colorful Fruits and Veggies

    You’ve taken the graphite course, now explore color with Carol Ann Morley at the Wellesley College Botanic Garden on Tuesday, January 13 – Thursday, January 15 from 9:30 – 3:30 (snow date Friday, January 16.)  Learn to capture the vibrant colors of fruits and vegetables. Find out how many multiple overlays of colors it can take to give depth, shie and texture to one berry.  Draw from the abundance of produce available in the middle of winter to make intriguing compositions of fruit, berries and foliage.  Explore creative possibilities, whether traditional or whimsical, to enhance your artwork.  This is a workshop suitable for all levels.  WCBG members $250, nonmembers $300.  Call 781-283-3094, or email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu to sign up. Illustration courtesy of Sue Woodfine.

  • Tuesday, August 26 – Thursday, August 28, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Drawing Flowers and More

    Practice, practice, practice.  Give yourself these three days at the Wellesley College Botanic Garden to refresh and strengthen your own way of contour drawing.  Carol Ann Morley guides you through discovery exercises that help you draw accurately and confidently.  See in new ways, analyze flower and leaf shapes to recognize patterns and rhythms in botanical shapes, and conquer the perennial problem of foreshortening.  For all levels – some drawing experience required.  The classes will take place from 9:30 – 3:30 on Tuesday, August 26 through Thursday, August 28.  Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Garden: $250; non-members: $300.  Register by calling 781-283-3094 or email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu.

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  • Friday, August 22 – Sunday, August 24, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Tonal Drawing Fundamentals

    Strengthen your plant shading skills with exercises in tonal scales, spheres, cones, and cylinders.  Wellesley College’s Carol Ann Morley focuses this three day course on discerning tonal values and applying graphite pencil techniques.  Working from botanical shapes such as flowers, fruits and berries, learn how to make botanical studies that have clarity, balance, and visual depth.  For all levels – some drawing experience required.  The class will be held in the Visitors Center of the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens from 9:30 – 3:30 August 22 – 24, and the fee is $250 for Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens, $300 for nonmembers.  Register by calling 781-283-3094, or email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu.

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  • Wednesdays, June 4 – June 25, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm – Drawing and Painting for the Petrified

    In this relaxed, informative seminar at the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens, with plenty of helpful demonstrations, you will work towards developing your drawing and painting skills.  Sarah Roche encourages your observational skills to grow as you experiment with line drawings and the accurate representations of botanical forms.  Leap into watercolor painting as Sarah guides you through a series of fun beginning botanical watercolor exercises.  All abilities and anxiety levels welcome.  Please bring to the first class: 9 x 12 sketch paper, HB (No.2) pencils, and white plastic eraser.  Sarah will discuss brushes, palettes, and watercolor papers necessary for the remaining classes.  Samples of paint will be provided.  The Wednesday series of classes, June 4 – 25, will cost $125 for Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens, $150 for nonmembers.  Sign up by calling 781-283-3094, or email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu.

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  • Tuesdays, April 1 – June 3, 9:00 am – 11:30 am – Botanical Drawing

    Tuesdays, April 1 – June 3, 9:00 am – 11:30 am – Botanical Drawing

    Taking your inspiration from the historical tradition of botanical illustration, learn to draw botanical specimens in a wide range of drawing media, including graphite, pen and ink, colored pencil, and watercolor pencil. In this 10 week, Cambridge Center for Adult Education class, you will look at the work of great botanical illustrators. You will explore composition and personal style as you execute carefully observed perceptual drawings. The instructor, Sean Dunstan-Halliday, will supply some plants, but you also will be asked to bring in specimens. The class includes excursions to the Harvard Museum of Natural History. The first class will take place Tuesday, April 1 at 42 Brattle Street in Cambridge. The tuition is $249, and you may sign up at www.ccae.org. Thank you Meg Muckenhoupt for the tip.

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  • Friday, January 10 – Sunday, January 12, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Leaves in Pen and Ink

    Friday, January 10 – Sunday, January 12, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Leaves in Pen and Ink

    Following a brief review of the Crowquille pen’s basic techniques, Carol Ann Morley encourages you to bring classic sophistication and grace to your pen and ink illustrations. Move beyond beginning stipple to create texture and tone with hatch and cross hatch.  Through the study of selected pieces by master illustrators and the practice of recreating sections of those works, find the confidence to effectively apply these techniques to your own pen work.  Some drawing and dip pen skill advised (but it’s also a great way to polish up your dip pen skills!)  This Wellesley College Botanic Garden class takes place Friday, January 10 – Sunday, January 12 (snow date Monday January 13) from 9:30 – 3:30.  Wellesley Friends $250, nonmembers $300.  For complete information, call 781-283-3094, or email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu.

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  • Saturdays, October 5 – 26, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Tonal Fall Treasures and Composition

    Gourds, mums and asters will be used to explore the elements of artistic composition on four Saturdays in October, October 5 – 26, from 10 – 12 in classes co-sponsored by the Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens and Weston Nurseries, 160 Pine Hill Road in Chelmsford.  Jeanne Kunze will guide you in developing and increasing design skills to relate multiple pictorial elements.  Use graphite on paper to develop designs expressing the shape, value, and rhythm of fall’s rich harvest on display.  Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens price is $100, nonmembers $125.  Register by calling 781-283-3094, or email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu.  Image from www.gertens.com.

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  • Saturdays, September 7 – 28, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Botanical Illustration: Basic Drawing Skills

    Weston Nurseries and the Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens will again partner to bring you the opportunity to study with experienced instructor Jeanne Kuntz on four successive Saturdays, September 7 – 24, from 10 – noon, surrounded by the newest Weston Nurseries’ world class garden center.  You will increase your awareness of and appreciation for plants via the drawing experience.  If you can write your name, you already have some basic drawing skills.  Gain confidence and develop your ability to draw what you see.  The site is at 160 Pine Hill Road in Chelmsford, the cost is $100 for WCBG Friends, $125 for the general public.  Sign up by calling 781-283-3094, or emailing wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu. Below is a photo of cacti from Weston Nurseries – let’s draw!

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