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  • Tuesdays, September 3 – 24, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm – Washes and Layers

    The Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens is pleased to partner with Weston Nurseries of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to bring you plant-based art in an exciting new location: Weston Nurseries, 160 Pine Hill Road in Chelmsford. On four successive Tuesdays beginning September 3, from 10 – 1, you will explore botanical watercolor painting using transparent watercolor washes under the guidance of artist and experienced instructor Jeanne Kunze. this traditional approach teaches you to create plant portraits celebrating the diversity and color richness of the natural world. Jeanne will focus on plants with patterned leaves, such as Rex begonia, ivy, and coleus. Friends: $150, nonmembers: $200. You may telephone 781-283-3094 or email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu to register.  Painting below by Patricia Savage.

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  • Saturdays, April 30 – May 28, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm – Elements of Botanic Illustration: Beginning Watercolor Techniques

    Join Jeanne Kunze (one of her peony pictures is shown below) at the Wellesley Botanic Garden on five successive Saturdays, April 30 – May 28, from 9:30 – 12:30, in an art and plant exploration inspired by the interrelationship of paper, brushes, water, and pigments.  Mixing color and application will be the focus of this beginning watercolor experience, sponsored by the Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture.  Be guided with classroom sequential exercises and demonstrations.  Bring your curiosity and enthusiasm to class and learn techniques to express our “inner artist.”  There will be group instruction followed by individualized attention from the instructor.  Some previous drawing experience is helpful.  WCFH members $225, non-members $275.  To register, log on to www.wellesley.edu/WCFH, or call 781-283-3094, ext. 4.

  • Fridays, April 1, 8, 15 and 29, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Scientific Botanical Illustration: Orchids

    Black and white drawings have an aesthetic beauty all their own, and were long used for illustrations before color printing.  Under the guidance of Jeanne Kunze, use traditional dip and technical pens to create weighted, broken, hatch, and crosshatch line work as well as stipple to illustrate live orchids.  As many scientific illustrations are done from pressed field-collected material, Jeanne will also show you how to use dried specimens for illustration, including methods of making these samples look fresh and alive.  Dissecting microscopes and other magnification devices will aid you in accomplishing an informative, precise, and aesthetically pleasing illustration.  There are some prerequisites for this Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture course, to take place at Wellesley on four Fridays, April 1 – 29, so email horticulture@wellesley.edu, or call 781-283-3094, ext. 4, for complete details.  WCFH member price is $250, non-members $300.

  • 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.

  • Saturday, October 17, 9:30 – 12:30 – Essential Elements of Botanical Drawing: Getting It Right

    Are you a beginner or even an advanced artist in need of a basic approach to drawing? Jump-start your drawing skills in this five session class with Jeanne Kunze, illustrator and Instructor in Art History and Studio Art. The techniques she teaches are designed to develop accurate observation and definition of shape–both essential to artistic renderings, botanical or not. Learn to represent plants through specialized observation and sketching exercises and techniques for making proportional measurements, depicting foreshortened petals, flowers, and leaves and representing perspective and compositional balance. Jeanne will help you develop your illustration skills through class demonstrations, exercises, and individual teaching moments. Class meets at the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens Visitor Center, and is co sponsored by the Arnold Arboretum and the Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture.  The first class is October 17, and remaining classes will take place Saturdays October 24, October 31, November 7, and November 14, all 9:30 – 12:30.   To register, log on to www.arboretum.harvard.edu, or www.wellesleycollege.edu/WCFH.

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