A major celebration of 300 years of Australian botanical art will be held at the Art Gallery of Ballarat beginning September 25, 2012. The exhibition Capturing Flora: 300 Years of Australian Botanical Art will take visitors through a historical journey of how Australia’s amazing and diverse flora have been recorded, interpreted and popularized by botanical [...]
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Get Ready to Celebrate 300 Years of Botanical Art
Posted in Special Events, botanical art, botanical illustration, general botany, Special Announcements, tagged botanical art, exhibition, Australia, art gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne on May 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Summer Workshops in Botanical Illustration for Kids
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, Sketching & Journaling, tagged drawing, nature, Oregon children, Portland on May 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Summer school for kids and adults! See what’s new at Classes Near You > Oregon: Leach Botanical Garden http://leachgarden.org A 16-acre garden in southeast Portland. Formerly the private garden of botanist Lilia Leach and her husband pharmacist John Leach, the garden features over 2,000 species of plants and hosts special events and workshops year-round. Botanical [...]
Trees, Shrubs & Woody Vines of East Texas
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Reference, Special Announcements, tagged Plants, shrubs, Texas, trees, vines on May 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Forester-Artist Bruce Lyndon Cunningham and professor, Dr. Elray S. Nixon, have published the third edition of Trees, Shrubs & Woody Vines of East Texas. The revised edition of this field manual contains keys and illustrations to over 300 woody plant species and an illustrated glossary of plant structures containing over 200 terms. To order your [...]
Urban Sanctuary Hosts Botanical Art Exhibition and Classes
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Education, gardening, general botany, Learning Opportunities, natural science illustration, Sketching & Journaling, tagged birding, gardens, nature, Texas on May 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Quinta Mazatlan Nature Center in McAllen, Texas is a historic adobe mansion featuring birding trails, an art gallery, a nature store and educational programs. The nature center has been added to Classes Near You > Texas. Take a look! Quinta Mazatlan Nature Center www.quintamazatlan.com Built in 1935 as a private residence, Quinta Mazatlan is [...]
Take a Mixed Media Approach to Botanical Art
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Education, Learning Opportunities, Sketching & Journaling, tagged Greece, Maryland, mixed media, New Mexico, Texas on May 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Mixed media artist, Jane La Fazio, has announced an updated schedule that includes workshops well into 2013. The classes listed below are only a glimpse of what Jane has to offer. Be sure you visit her website to see her complete schedule. Here is what’s new at Classes Near You in Southern California, New Mexico, [...]
Kitchen Counter Botany
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Cookbooks, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, tagged botany, drawing, groceries, teaching and learning, UC Berkeley on May 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Know your veggies. Eat your veggies. Draw your veggies. Making vegetables and plants irresistibly interesting to the next generation is the goal of Botany on Your Plate: Investigating the Plants We Eat, a ready-to-use curriculum written by Katharine D. Barrett, Jennifer M. White and Christine Manoux. The eight interdisciplinary lessons in this book written for [...]
Draw and Paint Herbs!
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, general botany, tagged Alabama, draw, herbs, paint on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Draw and Paint Six Culinary Herbs Saturday, June 30 from 10am-4pm Studio at Alabama Art Supply 1006 23rd Street South Birmingham, AL $120 includes all art supplies and six potted organic herbs to take home Learn the basic structure of a leaf, then put that knowledge to work as you create a color rendering of [...]
Artist Feedback About ‘Botany for Artists’
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, tagged art, botany, Botany for Artists on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Questions for You! This morning Liz has questions for readers who own a copy of Botany for Artists. Liz’s book was released in the UK in November and was released in the US on May 1. Liz has specific questions about reader’s experiences with her new book. Reader comments about the book have begun to [...]
Botanical Art Exhibition in New York’s Hudson Valley
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Education, Learning Opportunities, Special Announcements, Special Events, tagged botanical art, CSA, exhibition, New York on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Artist and teacher, Wendy Hollender, will host a exhibition of botanical art on May 19 at Hollengold Farm, her organic farm located in the Hudson Valley in New York. This exhibition will feature the artwork of Carol Woodin, Paul Harwood and Wendy Hollender. Meet the artists and learn about the summer workshops each will teach [...]
Ask the Botanist: Liz Leech Continues Conversation about Botany, Botanical Art
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, Photography, tagged botanical art, botany, Botany for Artists, Liz Leech, questions on May 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Ask Liz! Liz and I hope you have enjoyed learning about her approach to teaching botanical artists about plants. Today Liz and I would like to open up the conversation. Do you have any questions you would like to ask Liz? Click here to join the conversation
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