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New York Botanical Garden
www.nybg.org
The New York Botanical Garden is home to one of the longest-running botanical art certificate programs in the country. View their current schedule online. Don’t miss what’s coming up this holiday season!

Flower Grouping
Thursdays, 11/3/16 – 11/24/16
11:00am – 04:00pm
Midtown Center, Room C
Instructor: Adele Rossetti 
Bring a heightened reality to your painting. Learn to gracefully arrange botanical subjects in your compositions and use color, value, and focus to create convincing three-dimensional images. Add depth to a single stem with many flowers, or a group of different flowers combined in one image. Prerequisite: Botanical Watercolor. 
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Oriental Lilies in Color
Wednesdays, 11/30/16 – 12/14/16
06:00pm – 09:00pm
Midtown Center, Room C
Instructor: Rose Marie James
These bold, exotic flowers make striking paintings. Learn the basic botany of the lily family while developing skills in painting the lovely, graded pinks of the “Stargazer” lily. Learn to make fluid color changes, as well as capture the textures of the flowers and the linear structure of the foliage. Prerequisite: Color Pencil I or Botanical Watercolor.
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Botanical Drawing I: Methods and Materials
Wednesdays, 01/11/17 – 02/15/17
10:00am – 01:00pm
NYBG, Watson Room 312
Instructor: Linda M. Nemergut 
Accurate observation translates into sensitive, realistic drawings and is an essential skill for botanical artists. Using basic shapes, fruit, and leaves, learn contour drawing with an emphasis on proportion, and explore techniques such as foreshortening, perspective, and line weight. 



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Botanical Drawing I: Methods and Materials
Wednesdays, 01/11/17 – 02/15/17
06:00pm – 09:00pm
Midtown Center, Room C
Instructor: Laura Vogel 
Accurate observation translates into sensitive, realistic drawings and is an essential skill for botanical artists. Using basic shapes, fruit, and leaves, learn contour drawing with an emphasis on proportion, and explore techniques such as foreshortening, perspective, and line weight. 
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Eastern Woodland Habitat
Fridays, 02/10/17 – 03/03/17
10:00am – 01:00pm
NYBG, Watson Room 312
Instructor: Patricia Wynne
The oak/hickory woodland of North American once stretched unbroken from New England to the Ozarks and the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. It was the most diverse temperate forest ecosystem in the world. We will study the habitat, past, present, and future focusing on the many small animals and plants that inhabit it. This class will stress research, composition, and narrative. We will discuss the history of scientific illustration and professional assignments, with an emphasis on clarity. Includes a special session at the American Museum of Natural History and a walk in The New York Botanical Garden’s own oak/hickory habitat. Prerequisite: Botanical Drawing I 
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