Description
This is a tentative course. Registrations will be accepted if it becomes official.
Drawing: Botanical Art Floriography
Instructor: Barbara Holmer
Revive the Victorian ‘Language of Flowers’ by creating accurate botanical drawings in graphite and/or colored pencils. Students will create a composition using plants that convey a coded message. Subjects will be provided for the first class. *Bring all drawing supplies.
Prerequisite: Previous experience using colored pencils.
All Levels
Saturdays, September 19 – November 14
No Class October 3
12:30 pm – 3:30 pm, 8 sessions
$278 Members, $318 Guests, $5 Materials Fee
INSTRUCTOR: BARBARA HOLMER
BOTANICAL ART FLORIOGRAPHY
COLORED PENCIL SUPPLY LIST
GENERAL:
-kneaded eraser
-Tombow Mono eraser
-artist’s tape (not 3M) or white painter’s tape
-sighting stick or divider
-foam core board (approximately 11”x14”) or small drawing board
-.5mm mechanical pencils with leads (HB)
-small (1”) hake brush or other soft brush
-Saral transfer paper or hand made transfer paper
PAPER: * 9”x12” -tracing paper
-Bienfang Graphics 360 Layout Paper (for preliminary drawing and layout)
CHOOSE FROM:
-Stonehenge White (Drawing/Printmaking)
-Hot Press watercolor paper
-Strathmore 400 or 500 series Bristol Board Vellum surface -your favorite good quality
smooth drawing paper
* (NOTE: 9”x12” size is large enough unless you have a specific large project)
SHARPENERS: choose from:
-Staedtler hand held sharpener, 2 hole tub (Staples)
-Carl Custom (hand operated)
-(Mitsubishi) Uni KH-20 (hand operated)
-NuSign (hand operated)
-any sharpener you have that gives a truly SHARP POINT
COLORED PENCILS: Regular colored pencils...NOT water soluble pencils!
-Faber Castell POLYCHROMOS (this is the brand I use;
it is available at Dick Blick in individual colors )
also need:
-Lyra Splender blender (colorless)
**please contact me if you have any questions BEFORE purchasing supplies
baholmer@yahoo.com 810.659.0860
Course Medium
Drawing
Location
Studio 5 at BBAC Campus
Instructor
Barbara Holmer