NATURE JOURNALING AT THE PAGE
Location: Page Museum (La Brea Tar Pits)
When: Saturday October 11 - Sunday October 12, 2008; 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 a.m.
Cost: $100 members / $125 non-members; Lunch and basic supplies included
Instructor: Janet Takahashi
More: All skill levels welcome (ages 16 and up); enrollment is limited; download flyer here.
Archive for the ‘Sketching & Journaling’ Category
Nature Journal Class at The Page Museum
Posted in Education, Sketching & Journaling, tagged nature journal, Page Museum, sketchbook on September 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Create a Nature Journal Tomorrow
Posted in Education, Sketching & Journaling, tagged botanical art, botanical illustration, J. Paul Getty Museum, nature journal, Sketching & Journaling on August 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Nature Journaling with Kathy Dunham
Getty Drawing Hour: Getty Garden
Friday August 15, 2008
6 pm - 8 pm
Central Garden, The Getty Center
Sketch in the garden with award-winning artist, Kathy Dunham. You will learn how to observe plants in the Central Garden and how to transfer your observations onto the pages of your journal. Free. Limit: 35 participants. [...]
Maria Sibylla Merian at The Getty: Week of June 30 - July 4
Posted in ArtPlantae Books, Education, Sketching & Journaling, Special Events, Venues, tagged Education, Special Events, Venues on July 1, 2008 | No Comments »
June 10 - August 31, 2008
Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters: Women of Art and Science
Maria Sibylla Merian (German, 1647-1717) was a painter and naturalist who studied the process of metamorphosis. Together with her daughters Johanna and Dorothea, Merian produced the book Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname. This exhibit is located in the West Pavilion [...]
Real Life: Learning More About Dorstenia
Posted in Education, Real Life Series, Sketching & Journaling, Special Articles & Interviews, tagged artistic process, botanical art, botanical illustration, Dorstenia, everyday art, extracurricular artists, garden journal, Moraceae, nature journal, Plants, Real Life, sketchbook on January 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Earlier I mentioned a few resources you could use to research your plant specimen. Today I will draw on these resources and others to learn more about the Dorstenia plant I selected for my current project. I always start with the big picture and then get more specific, so I will begin with learning more [...]
Real Life: Learning More About Your Subject
Posted in ArtPlantae Books, Education, Real Life Series, Sketching & Journaling, Special Articles & Interviews, tagged artistic process, botanical art, botanical art books, botanical illustration, Dorstenia, extracurricular artists, garden journal, Moracea, nature journal, Plants, Real Life, sketchbook on January 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Collecting plant material is one of my favorite past times. Like most gardeners, I buy seeds, bulbs, corms, rhizomes and plants that are not zoned for where I live just to see if they will grow. USDA and Sunset zoning charts mean nothing to me. They only help me steer clear of plants requiring 500 [...]
Real Life: Choosing a Specimen
Posted in Real Life Series, Sketching & Journaling, Special Articles & Interviews, tagged artistic process, botanical art, botanical illustration, Dorstenia, everyday art, extracurricular artists, garden journal, Moraceae, nature journal, Plants, Real Life, sketchbook on December 25, 2007 | No Comments »
I am drawn to botanical illustration for the information I can learn from the carefully crafted stories that botanical illustrators tell through their drawings. I appreciate when an illustrator teaches me something new and directs my attention towards something I have never noticed. Because I like looking for new information in an illustration, the plants [...]
Botanical Illustration in Real Life
Posted in Education, Real Life Series, Sketching & Journaling, Special Articles & Interviews, tagged artistic process, botanical art, botanical illustration, everyday art, extracurricular artists, garden journal, nature journal, Plants, procrastination, Real Life, sketchbook on December 11, 2007 | No Comments »
Very few people can claim to be a fully-employed botanical artist or illustrator. For most of us, capturing plants on paper remains an extracurricular activity. And of all the extracurricular activities in our lives, botanical illustration usually happens only if we remember to think about it.
This new blog series is for the “extracurricular artist.” If [...]
