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  • Wednesday, August 14 – Friday, August 16, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Botanical Illustration: Drawing Fruits and Flowers with Colored Pencil

    This Berkshire Botanical Garden intensive workshop will focus on colored-pencil techniques for botanical illustration. Learn ways to create textured backgrounds and colors smooth as glass or rough as sandpaper. This versatile medium can be used to mimic an oil painting, pastel or watercolor. Explore a full range of techniques for creating both bold and subtle effects that will bring a botanical drawing alive. Participants should bring a pear and other fruits or flowers to include in their illustrations. Click here for Materials List.

    Carol Ann Morley is an illustrator and dedicated teacher of botanical illustration working in Dover, NH. She founded the Botanical Art Illustration Certificate Program at the New York Botanical Garden and teaches illustration there and for other botanical gardens. This is Ms. Morley’s only summer workshop in the Berkshires for 2013.

    This is a 3-day class: August 14, 15 and 16, 10 – 4 at Berkshire Botanical Garden. BBG member price $260, nonmembers $290.  Bring a bag lunch. Register on line at www.berkshirebotanical.org, or call 413-298-3926.

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  • Friday, August 26 – Sunday, August 28, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Leaves as They Grow

    Another fine drawing class will take place Friday, August 26 through Sunday, August 28, from 9:30 – 3:30, at the Wellesley College Botanic Garden.  With Carol Ann Morley, learn to capture the layers and angles of leaves you observe in nature onto your paper.  Start with the fundamentals of colored pencil, then work to give your drawing shape and movement by mixing color hues to create shadows, to make colors recede and advance, and to create harmony and contrast.  The pigments in colored pencils can be applied to create many different effects including multiple delicate washes – making this skill-building class useful for watercolorists as well as pencil artists.  $250.00 for WCFH members, $300 for non-members.  Register by calling 781-283-3094, or log on to www.wellesley.edu/WCFH.  Illustration by Carol Ann Morley.

  • Thursday, August 25, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Perspective Review

    In this one day skill-building class at the Wellesley College Botanic Garden with Carol Ann Morley, on Thursday, August 25 from 9:30 – 3:30, you will develop your foreshortening skills while heightening your artist’s eye.  Through a series of graphite exercises, work to achieve more believable drawings.  Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture members, $75, and non-members, $95.  To register, call 781-283-3094, or log on to www.wellesley.edu/WCFH.

  • Friday, August 12 – Sunday, August 14, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Bring in the Garden

    The Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture bring Carol Ann Morley to guide you in this three day course at the Wellesley College Botanic Garden, Friday, August 12 through Sunday, August 14, from 9:30 – 3:30 each day.  Discover graphite pencil techniques for sketching more quickly and looking more closely at flower structures.  Sketch the shape and movement of flowers sitting amongst them in the garden.  Then bring your notes and sketches into the studio to render the intricacies of flowering plants with finely detailed tonal studies.  WCFH members $250, non-members $300.  To register, call 781-283-3094, or log on to www.wellesley.edu/WCFH.  Illustration by Diane Cardaci.

  • Saturday and Sunday, August 21 and 22, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Elements of Drawing: Larger Than Life

    The Arnold Arboretum, in collaboration with the Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture, offers a two day workshop on Saturday, August 21 and Sunday, August 22, from 9:30 to 3:30 each day at the Wellesley College Botanic Garden in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Focus in on a flower blossom and record your observations as an attention grabbing enlargement. Under the guidance of Jeanne Kunze, draw the blossom magnified to show shape and form. See flowers in a new way and record detail not possible not possible at a smaller scale. Increase your ability to infuse subtle nuances and detail into your drawing. For beginners as well as more advanced artists. Develop confidence in your observation and illustration skills through Jeanne’s class demonstrations, individual teaching moments and directed practice. For beginners as well as more advanced artists. Bring your own lunch or walk to local shops.

    Fee $150 member, $190 nonmember of either the Arboretum or WCBG.  To register online, log on to www.arboretum.harvard.edu.

  • Thursdays, November 5 – December 17, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm – Drawing the Garden Landscape

    The Landscape Institute of Boston Architectural College offers a degree in Landscape Architecture, but for those who are interested, certain courses may be audited at a lower price, without receiving academic credits.  One such course is Drawing the Garden Landscape, taught by Clare Walker Leslie.  This module gives students an opportunity to gain confidence and experience in their drawing skills.  Classes focus on methods for using pencil, pen and ink, colored pencil, and watercolor pencil.  Particular attention will be paid to techniques for drawing individual plant specimens, group assemblages, plants in a landscape composition, perspective, walls, paths, water, buildings, and people in a garden setting.  The goal is to learn how to draw better so that clients (or your loving family) can more clearly understand proposed garden designs.  Emphasis will be on gardens in different seasons and conditions.  Attention will be paid to the specific needs of each student.  Several drawing sessions will be conducted outdoors.  Each student is required to produce and present a final drawing suitable for presentation to a client or inclusion in a portfolio.  The audit fee is $950 (compared to $1,380 if you wish to accrue credits).  Course number VS026.  For more information, log on to www.arboretum.harvard.edu/programs.