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 [...]
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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 »
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, [...]
New Perspectives on Nature
Posted in botanical art, Education, Learning Opportunities, natural science illustration, Sketching & Journaling, tagged Earth Day, environment, trees on March 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center is celebrating Mother Nature this year with a weekend full of learning opportunities for children and adults. On Saturday, April 21, 2012, families can take part in the Family Art Project to hear stories honoring Earth’s trees. Families will then have the opportunity to create a tree tribute [...]
Learn How to Draw Plants & Birds at the Ecology Center at North Cascades Basecamp
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, natural science illustration, Sketching & Journaling, tagged Cascades, ecology, insects, Plants, skiing, washington, wildlife on March 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Botanical illustration, birds, snakes and dragonflies! See what’s new at Classes Near You > Washington. North Cascades Basecamp, Mazama www.NorthCascadesBasecamp.com A bed-and-breakfast style lodge surrounded by acres of protected cedar forest, the North Cascades Basecamp serves as a homebase for outdoor adventures such as hiking, fishing, cross-country skiing and a host of other activities offered [...]
Nature Drawing Classes in Alabama, Mississippi and Florida
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Education, gardening, Learning Opportunities, natural science illustration, Sketching & Journaling, tagged drawing, herbs, nature, pencil, tutorial on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Illustrated Garden, A Studio Blog www.valwebb.com Val Webb is Derwent Pencils’ Feature Artist for 2012! She will post drawing tutorials each month at Derwent’s blog, Love Pencils. See Val Webb’s online tutorial, Botanical Drawing with Pencil and Watercolor. Connect with The Illustrated Garden on Facebook. For more information about the classes below, or to [...]
Field Studies, Forests & Wild Art in Hawaii
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Education, Learning Opportunities, natural science illustration, Sketching & Journaling, tagged Hawaii, nature, sierra nevada, sketchbook, Watercolor on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Artist Andie Thrams has announced her teaching schedule for the new year. The new schedule includes classes about botanical field studies, forest art and a special Hawaiian retreat designed to reconnect you with nature through art and yoga! Andie Thrams, Coloma, CA Andie is a painter and book artist devoted to creative work in wild [...]
Exhbition of Edible Botanicals Opens Tomorrow
Posted in botanical art, gardening, Learning Opportunities, Sketching & Journaling, Special Announcements, Special Events, tagged artist-in-residence, colored pencil, New York, Plants, vegetables, Wendy Hollender on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Colored pencil paintings and drawings of edible plants, both wild and cultivated, are the focus of Botanical Edibles…Wild and Cultivated, a new exhibition featuring the work of SUNY ULSTER Artist-in-Residence, Wendy Hollender. Tomorrow’s opening festivities will include a special slide presentation by Wendy that will be followed by an opening reception in the Muroff Kotler [...]
Painting Hawaii’s Endangered Plants
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Education, general botany, Sketching & Journaling, tagged botnaical art, endangered species, Hawaii, Plants, plein aire, teaching & learning on January 20, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Arillyn Moran Lawrence is a southern California artist working in mixed media, watercolor and oil. Her paintings are both traditional and contemporary and have been featured in exhibitions across the US almost every year for the past 22 years. Arillyn is also a botanical artist and a member of the American Society of Botanical Artists [...]





