Description
Drawing & Painting: Botanical Art from the Kitchen
Instructor: Barbara Holmer
Cook up a comforting soup on a cold winter’s night…after drawing all the botanical ingredients! Food plants offer seemingly endless subjects for botanical artists. Using graphite, colored pencil*, and / or watercolor*, create a botanical drawing or painting that portrays the ingredients from a favorite recipe.
This class will cover compositional choices, color-matching, and cross sections. No cooking skills are required. Bring supplies for your chosen medium to the first class. Subjects will be provided for the first class. However, if you have a specific recipe / food plants in mind, you are welcome to bring them. *Students should have previous experience with their chosen medium.
Level 1 & Up
Saturdays, January 17 – March 7
12:30 pm– 3:30 pm, 8 sessions
$270 Members, $310 Guests, $5 Materials Fee
Instructor: Barbara Holmer
GENERAL:
-kneaded eraser -Tombow Mono eraser -sighting stick or divider -.5mm mechanical pencil (HB and 2H lead) -small (1”) hake brush or other soft brush -foam core board (approximately 11”x14”) or small drawing board -artist's tape (not 3M) or white painter's tape-Saral transfer paper or hand made transfer paper
PAPER: 9"x12" -Graphics 360 Marker paper
FOR GRAPHITE OR COLORED PENCIL choose from:--Stonehenge Drawing, Bristol Board Vellum Surface, or other drawing paper
FOR WATERCOLOR PAPER choose from:-Blick Premiere Hot Press 140 lb -Saunders Waterford Hot Press 140 lb - traditional or high white-Arches Hot Press140 lb.PLUS-Foam Core Board for support
COLORED PENCIL SUPPLIES: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)*-Lyra Splendor blender (colorless blender)
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
WATERCOLOR SUPPLIES:-Lint-free cloth or paper toweling (Viva plain texture)-Water container-artist's tape 1/2"-mechanical pencil HB size .5 or.7 (found in office stores or art stores)-kneaded eraser and/or white plastic eraser such as Staedtler-Mars
BRUSHES: choose from:-your favorite round brushes size 2 and 4 that have a good pointORUtrecht Series 228 Sablette size 2 and 4OR-Princeton Velvetouch round size 2 and 4OR-Da Vinci Cosmotop Spin size 2 and 4
PALETTE:-white porcelain or plastic palette with at least 6 compartments
PAPER 9"X12" CHOOSE FROM:-Blick Premiere Hot Press 140 lb -Saunders Waterford Hot Press 140 lb - traditional or high white-Arches Hot Press140 lb.PLUS-Foam Core Board for support
PAINT:Winsor Newton Watercolors:-Winsor Lemon-Winsor Yellow Deep
-Quinacridone Magenta or Permanent Rose-Scarlet Lake-Winsor Blue (green shade)-French UltramarineOptional: Burnt Sienna, Winsor Violet, Cerulean Blue
OR:Daniel Smith Watercolors: (Extra Fine Essentials Set - Blick)-Hansa Yellow Light-New Gamboge-Quinacridone Rose-Pyrrol Scarlet-Phthalo Blue Green Shade-French Ultramarine Blue
**Please contact the BBAC office if you have any questions at 248-644-0866
Course Medium
Drawing and Painting
Location
Studio 4 at BBAC Campus
Instructor
Barbara Holmer