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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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  • 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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  • Wednesday – Friday, March 20 – 22, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Botanical Illustration with Graphite Pencil: Fruits and Seeds

    Draw the beauty of seeds, including pods, nuts, fruits and cones, and investigate the amazing variety of nature’s bounty. Discover the features and texture of these objects while building your drawing skills. This is a great Berkshire Botanical Garden class for beginners or more advanced students who get ‘stuck’ drawing. Learn to solve this problem and develop your drawing step by step, from sketch to finished nature drawing. There will be exercises in: training the eye through quick sketching; drawing plants in proportion; the essentials of perspective; and applying tonal values for visual depth. Whether your love is quick field sketching or rendering plant portraits, this inspiring class will give you confidence to draw and train you to look at nature more closely.

    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. The classes take place Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, March 20, 21, and 22, from 10 – 4, and cost $260 for BBG members, $290 for nonmembers.  Sign up at www.berkshirebotanical.org.

  • Tuesday, January 15 – Thursday, January 17, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – On Location: The Kampong

    Join Sarah Roche at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Coconut Grove, Florida January 15 – 17 and enjoy three days of botanical art.  Once on location, start to draw with easy field sketches on the grounds of the stunning Kampong historic home and garden, where the climate of the southeast shore of Florida affords a natural open-air environment in which tropical species flourish.  Explore rudiments of form from live specimens as you work in graphite studies.  Some plants will be flowering, others will be fruiting and some may have all stages of development visible.  Then, add color with watercolors.  Take home a journal filled with field sketches useful for future art works and fond memories of a unique experience.  All abilities are welcome.  Fee  (Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens $325, non-members $400) includes three days of class instruction only.  Travel, accommodations, food, and other expenses not included.  Dormitory accommodations at Kampong may be arranged on a first-come basis.  For those arriving on Monday, January 14, a get-acquainted gathering will be arranged.  Contact the Friends office for more details at 781-283-3094.  Offered in collaboration with The Kampong National Tropical Botanical Garden.

  • Tuesday, March 22 – Thursday, March 24, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm – A Year in the Life of a Tree

    Join botanical illustrator Wendy Hollender for this intensive workshop that follows a tree through all its stages over the course of a year. The 3 days in March will jump start your tree study and give you the tools to work independently over the growing season. While there are different stages in different trees, Wendy will survey identifying markers – even those which require microscopic observation. After choosing your favorite tree to follow, you will create a sketchbook illustrating characteristics found on woody plants during the four seasons as preparation for a finished botanical painting in your specialty medium – watercolor, oil, colored pencil, or graphite. Between seminar sessions, Wendy will be available via distance learning to advise you on the development of your tree study and paintings. Prior drawing and painting or colored pencil experience required. The class, at the Wellesley College Botanic Garden, will take place Tuesday, March 22 – Thursday, March 24 (with an all important snow date of Friday, March 25), from 9:30 am – 4:30 pm. Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture fee is $525, non-members $650. Register at www.wellesley.edu/WCFH.  Illustration from www.ediblegeography.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.