The Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden (LGBG) in Richmond, VA is home to 2,500 botanical watercolor paintings by cartographer and artist, Alexandre Descubes. While much has been researched by the garden’s research staff, there is still a lot to learn about Descubes and his paintings. The garden is asking for your help. Learn more about this [...]
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Research and New Classes at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
Posted in Learning Opportunities, botanical art, tagged botanical garden, pollinators, birds on August 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Weeklong Courses in Botanical Art at a Country B&B
Posted in Learning Opportunities, botanical art, tagged B&B, Cornwall, Lost Gardens of Heligan on August 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
New at Classes Near You > International > England: The Wagon House Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall www.thewagonhouse.com A bed-and-breakfast in the English countryside where you can eat breakfast at a time that is convenient for you, visit the gardens in Cornwall, and take botanical art classes too! Four-Day Botanical Painting Course – September 3-6, [...]
Teach Plant Morphology to Kids
Posted in ArtPlantae Books, Education, general botany, tagged botany, plant morphology, children on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Plant Parts series by Vijaya Khisty Bodach is a collection of six books addressing plant morphology. Each book is dedicated to a single topic. The topics Bodach writes about are roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruit, and seeds. Each book in the series follows the same format, so a pattern emerges that unites the books [...]
Call for Artists: The 47th Annual Wild Mushroom Show
Posted in Education, Special Announcements, Special Events, botanical art, tagged Watercolor, exhibition, mycology, fungi, Pacific Northwest on August 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Puget Sound Mycological Society 3rd Annual Art Exhibition Location: University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture Show Dates: October 16 – 17, 2010 Entries Due: September 30, 2010 Contact: Doug Birkebak Click on the poster above to view details and to download entry form.
Color Theory, Negative Painting & Field Sketches in Watercolor
Posted in Learning Opportunities, botanical art, sketchbook, tagged color theory, sketching, Brenda Swenson, negative painting, Learning & Product EXPO on August 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Updates at Classes Near You > California: Brenda Swenson Swenson’s Art www.swensonsart.net Brenda Swenson, WW, NWWS is the author of Keeping a Watercolor Sketchbook and Steps to Success in Watercolor. She is a very popular, award-winning artist who teaches across the U.S. and abroad. Visit Brenda’s blog to read about her tips, techniques, and tools [...]
Botanical Illustration in Colored Pencil at Fallbrook School of the Arts
Posted in Learning Opportunities, botanical art, botanical illustration, san diego, tagged botanical illustration, colored pencil, illustrated journal on August 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
New at Classes Near You > California: Fallbrook School of the Arts www.fallbrookschoolofthearts.org Located in downtown Fallbrook, the Fallbrook School of the Arts offers workshops and classes for adults and children in ceramics, printmaking, jewelry making, photography, drawing and painting, performing arts, literary arts, paper arts, life drawing and welding. They also rent or lease [...]
Take a Workshop at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art
Posted in Learning Opportunities, Special Events, botanical art, tagged botanical art exhibition, Kew Garden, Shirley Sherwood Gallery, bulbmania on August 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
New at Classes Near You > England: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew www.kew.org Drop-in Art Workshop at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery – Monday August 30 – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Create a collaborative piece of art with artist Stuart Simler and fellow artists. This workshop will be taught in conjunction with the exhibition, Bulbmania – [...]
Add a Botanical Theme to Your Holiday Cards
Posted in Learning Opportunities, botanical art, tagged botany, Christmas card, holiday design, autumn on August 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Update at Classes Near You > England: The Beth Chatto Gardens Elmstead Market, Colchester, Essex www.bethchatto.co.uk A former overgrown wasteland that has been transformed into an informal garden in the countryside. The garden’s Tea Room offers light lunches, sweet treats, tea, and coffee. Learn How to Identify Plants & The Use of Botanical Latin – [...]
Exhibition About Endangered Plants Opens at The Smithsonian This Weekend
Posted in Education, Special Announcements, Special Events, botanical art, natural science illustration, tagged American Society of Botanical Artists, endangered plants, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural HIstory Museum on August 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Losing Paradise? Endangered Plants Here and Around the World opens at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History on Saturday August 14. Organized by the American Society of Botanical Artists, this traveling exhibition brings attention to plant diversity, the fragile state of endangered species, and the efforts by botanists and botanical artists to document and [...]
Capture Autumn’s Rich Colors
Posted in Learning Opportunities, botanical art, tagged drawing, horticulture, Seattle, washington on August 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
New at Classes Near You > Washington: Kathleen McKeehen, Scientific Illustrator Kathleen is a teacher and freelance illustrator. Her work has appeared in Organic Gardening Magazine and The Herb Companion. View Kathleen’s artwork in the ASBA Members’ Gallery or at the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators’ Science-Art.com. Gage Academy, Seattle www.gageacademy.org Painting Roses – August [...]
Artists & Scientists Create Educational Programs in Natural Science Illustration
Posted in Learning Opportunities, botanical art, natural science illustration, tagged Connecticut, natural science, illustration, LLC on August 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Now at Classes Near You > Connecticut: Connecticut Natural Science Illustrators In collaboration with the Yale Peabody Museum www.ctnsi.com Connecticut Natural Science Illustrators LLC is comprised of professional artists and scientists who have developed educational programs in natural science illustration. The members of CTNSI also provide illustrations, printed material, murals and exhibits addressing environmental and [...]
Interpreting Botanical Illustrations
Posted in Education, botanical art, tagged botanical illustration, culture, sexuality on August 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At Monash University in Australia, the interdisciplinary journal Colloquy was created to present new work in literary and cultural studies and to encourage discussion among postgraduates and others in the literary community. In 2003, Judy Dyson published an article in Colloquy about the cultural and sexual imagery observable in botanical illustrations. In Botanical Illustration or [...]



