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2009 Workshops and Demonstrations

For more information on these workshops, contact the organizations below, or e-mail Keyserkill Studios, Inc. directly
Date(s)	Location	Description
July 2009 Four Saturday sessions, 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM July 11, 18, 25, and August 1	Landis Arboretum P.O. Box 186 Esperance, NY 12066 (518) 875-6935 info@landisarboretum.org	Botanical Drawing at the Landis Arboretum July - August 2009 You may be... a gardener who "can't draw a straight line” an artist who can draw all sorts of lines a student of any age ...or just someone who would love to get a lot closer to the natural world Learning to really look at plants and to understand what you are seeing is what this workshop is all about! The four-Saturday workshop explores the art and science of drawing and painting plants. Plant structure, growth patterns, ecology, and botanical terminology alternate with rendering techniques to produce scientifically accurate plant portraits. We'll concentrate on the vascular plants and show methods of drawing them with pencil, pen and ink and the classical watercolor technique. We'll look at plants at a distance, and up close with microscopes and hand lenses, learn about measurement techniques, and discuss special problems in rendering, drawing from field notes, greenhouse plants, and herbarium specimens. This workshop is open to all levels of artistic experience. Prerequisites: NONE! This workshop is in a lecture-and-demonstration format, and you are not expected to draw what you've learned under the sour eye of an instructor. Rather, each week we give optional homework so that you may observe and practice the techniques you've learned at your leisure. At the beginning of the next session, we'll have an opportunity to discuss our individual discoveries and drawings. CDs containing all of the text materials and PowerPoint presentations will be distributed at the first session. Conducted by Tressa Vellozzi, Keyserkill Studios, Inc. Location: Landis Arboretum Library and Herbarium. Members $45, non-members $60. Class size is limited, so contact the Arboretum and register early!

For more information on these workshops, contact the organizations below, or e-mail Keyserkill Studios, Inc. directly

Date(s)

Location

Description

July 2009

Four Saturday sessions, 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM

July 11, 18, 25, and August 1

Landis Arboretum
P.O. Box 186 Esperance, NY 12066
(518) 875-6935
info@landisarboretum.org

Botanical Drawing at the Landis Arboretum July - August 2009

You may be...

a gardener who "can't draw a straight line”
an artist who can draw all sorts of lines
a student of any age
...or just someone who would love to get a lot closer to the natural world

Learning to really look at plants and to understand what you are seeing is what this workshop is all about!

The four-Saturday workshop explores the art and science of drawing and painting plants.

Plant structure, growth patterns, ecology, and botanical terminology alternate with rendering techniques to produce scientifically accurate plant portraits.

We'll concentrate on the vascular plants and show methods of drawing them with pencil, pen and ink and the classical watercolor technique.

We'll look at plants at a distance, and up close with microscopes and hand lenses, learn about measurement techniques, and discuss special problems in rendering, drawing from field notes, greenhouse plants, and herbarium specimens.
This workshop is open to all levels of artistic experience. Prerequisites: NONE!

This workshop is in a lecture-and-demonstration format, and you are not expected to draw what you've learned under the sour eye of an instructor. Rather, each week we give optional homework so that you may observe and practice the techniques you've learned at your leisure. At the beginning of the next session, we'll have an opportunity to discuss our individual discoveries and drawings.

CDs containing all of the text materials and PowerPoint presentations will be distributed at the first session. Conducted by Tressa Vellozzi, Keyserkill Studios, Inc.

Location: Landis Arboretum Library and Herbarium. Members $45, non-members $60.
Class size is limited, so contact the Arboretum and register early!

2007 Workshops and Demonstrations

For more information on these workshops, contact the organizations below, or e-mail Keyserkill Studios, Inc. directly
Date(s)	Location	Description
July 2007 Four Saturday sessions, 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM July 7, 14, 21, 29	Landis Arboretum P.O. Box 186 Esperance, NY 12066 (518) 875-6935 Arboretum e-mail	Botanical Drawing at the Landis Arboretum July 2007 Snapshots from the workshop and some participants'work Paper by Len Herskovitz: "Perspective at Small Visual Angles" Note: this paper is not on your CD, but expands on our discussion of perspective.

For more information on these workshops, contact the organizations below, or e-mail Keyserkill Studios, Inc. directly

Date(s)

Location

Description

July 2007

Four Saturday sessions, 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM

July 7, 14, 21, 29

Landis Arboretum
P.O. Box 186 Esperance, NY 12066
(518) 875-6935
Arboretum e-mail

Botanical Drawing at the Landis Arboretum July 2007

Snapshots from the workshop and some participants'work
Paper by Len Herskovitz: "Perspective at Small Visual Angles" Note: this paper is not on your CD, but expands on our discussion of perspective.

2006 Workshops

For more information on these workshops, contact the organizations below, or e-mail Keyserkill Studios, Inc. directly
Date(s)	Location	Description
July 2006 Four Saturday sessions, 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM July 8, 15, 22, and 29	Landis Arboretum P.O. Box 186 Esperance, NY 12066 (518) 875-6935 Arboretum e-mail	Botanical Drawing at the Landis Arboretum July 2006 Snapshots from the workshop and some participants'work
Tuesday, March 7 2006 7:00 PM	Colonie Art League Colonie Town Hall Rt.9 Newtonville, NY [across from Siena College]	Botanical Spirals: some Maddening Topics in Botanical Illustration Doing those luscious watercolor renderings in classical botanical illustration is the easy part! The hard part is to somehow get a decent drawing. If you ever tried a serious study of a pine cone, or tried to draw a stem bristling with what seems like a million leaves pointing every which way, you're likely to run screaming into the woods. Botanical illustrators, who are often at least nominally sane, have methods ("dirty tricks") to make this first step easier. We show how to recognize common patterns of growth and development, which are frequently spirals. We'll demonstrate how to set up specimens, what to look for, what to measure and when to "eyeball". We will follow a typical botanical illustration assignment from setup to preliminary drawing, to the transfer to our rendering surface, to the stages of watercolor development. Handout for this session includes some theory and practice topics, along with our favorite reference materials and suggestions for further adventures in drawing plants. Handout for participants -- large file, have patience! Step by Step: An Apple Painting Diary

For more information on these workshops, contact the organizations below, or e-mail Keyserkill Studios, Inc. directly

Date(s)

Location

Description

July 2006

Four Saturday sessions, 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM

July 8, 15, 22, and 29

Landis Arboretum
P.O. Box 186 Esperance, NY 12066
(518) 875-6935
Arboretum e-mail

Botanical Drawing at the Landis Arboretum July 2006

Snapshots from the workshop and some participants'work

Tuesday, March 7 2006
7:00 PM

Colonie Art League
Colonie Town Hall
Rt.9 Newtonville, NY
[across from Siena College]

Botanical Spirals: some Maddening Topics in Botanical Illustration

Doing those luscious watercolor renderings in classical botanical illustration is the easy part! The hard part is to somehow get a decent drawing.
If you ever tried a serious study of a pine cone, or tried to draw a stem bristling with what seems like a million leaves pointing every which way, you're likely to run screaming into the woods. Botanical illustrators, who are often at least nominally sane, have methods ("dirty tricks") to make this first step easier.
We show how to recognize common patterns of growth and development, which are frequently spirals. We'll demonstrate how to set up specimens, what to look for, what to measure and when to "eyeball". We will follow a typical botanical illustration assignment from setup to preliminary drawing, to the transfer to our rendering surface, to the stages of watercolor development.
Handout for this session includes some theory and practice topics, along with our favorite reference materials and suggestions for further adventures in drawing plants.

Handout for participants -- large file, have patience!
Step by Step: An Apple Painting Diary

2005 Workshops

Date(s)	Location	Description
July, 2005	Landis Arboretum P.O. Box 186 Esperance, NY 12066 (518) 875-6935 Arboretum e-mail	Botanical Drawing at the Landis Arboretum: July 2005
		Snapshots from the workshop and some participants'work

2004 Workshops

Date(s)	Location	Description
July, 2004	Landis Arboretum P.O. Box 186 Esperance, NY 12066 (518) 875-6935 Arboretum e-mail	Botanical Drawing at the Landis Arboretum: July 2004
		Snapshots from the workshop and some participants'work

Date(s)	Location	Description
One session: Saturday, May 15 2004 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM	Emma Treadwell Thacher Nature Center 87 Nature Center Way, Voorheesville, NY 12186 (518) 872-0800	Drawing from Nature: Macro and Micro Aspects Morning Session: Field sketching and observation of wildlife and vegetative habitat on trails or from the gazebo in case of rain. Materials required: sketchbook and your favorite drawing instruments. Optional equipment: Hand lens, field watercolors. Emphasizes black-and-white sketching, with perhaps watercolor (or coffee!) washes. Afternoon Session: The Micro aspect. Specimen sketching (bones, skulls, fossils, etc.) from the Nature Center's collections. Materials required: sketchbook. Optional materials: Charcoal or conte crayon, newsprint pad, HB pencils or technical pencils (0.3mm or 0.5mm), white plastic eraser, Strathmore 500 drawing pad or other good quality drawing paper. Covers drawing specimens in detail, measurement and proportion techniques, using hand lenses and the Stereo Microscope. Bring your own lunch and beverages.
		Handout for participants (.pdf format)
		Pictures from the workshop!