Draw/Paint: Botanical Art - A Field Guide
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Description
Drawing & Painting: Botanical Art: A Field Guide to Your Backyard
Instructor: Barabara Holmer
Botanical art is an art form that combines scientific accuracy with an artistic sensitivity and aesthetic. Create accurate drawings of plants from your backyard, patio, deck, or local park in a field guide format using graphite, colored pencils, and / or watercolor. One class will focus on creating a landscape map to accompany your drawings. Bring appropriate supplies for your chosen medium and several plant samples from your yard to the first class.*
*Students should be well versed with their chosen medium.
Level 1 & Up
Saturdays, June 22 - August 3
No class July 6
12:30 am – 3:30 pm, 6 sessions
$189 Members, $229 Guests, $5 Materials Fee
BOTANICAL ART SKETCHBOOK
Instructor: Barabara Holmer
MATERIALS LIST
GENERAL:
-kneaded eraser and white plastic eraser (Staedtler Mars)
-sighting stick, divider, or plastic grid ruler
-.5mm mechanical pencils with leads (F, HB)
-small 1" hake brush or other soft brush
FOLDING CHAIR OR STOOL
PAPER:
-sketch paper, artist's tape, and drawing board/foam core (no larger than 11" x 14")
OR -sketch pad (no larger than 9" x 12")
OR -sketch journal EX: Aquabee Super Deluxe*, Strathmore 500 Multimedia Journal*
* These are good if you're doing watercolor!
SHARPENERS (if using colored pencil)
-hand held sharpener that gives a good point
EX: Staedtler 2 hole tub
Mitsubishi KH-20 hand operated
COLORED PENCILS* (NOT watercolor pencils)
-Faber-Castell Polychromos
-Prismacolor Premier
WATERCOLOR SUPPLIES*
WINSOR NEWTON ARTISTS PAINTS
-Winsor Lemon
-Winsor Yellow Deep
-Permanent Alizarin Crimson
Scarlet Lake
-Winsor Blue (Green Shade)
French Ultramarine Blue
OR DANIEL SMITH WATERCOLORS
-Hansa Yellow Light
-New Gamboge
-Quinacridone Rose
-Pyrrol Scarlet
-Phthalo Blue Green Shade
-French Ultramarine Blue
BRUSHES:
-Pentel Aquash Water Brush small or medium
OR watercolor brush-round size 3 or 4 with a good point*
EX: Da Vinci Cosmotop Spin, Princeton 4050, Utrecht 228 Sablette
-small container for water (if not using a water brush)
-small folding plate
**please contact me through the BBAC office if you have any questions
Course Medium
Drawing
Location
Studio 2 at BBAC Campus
Instructor
Barbara Holmer