Art Courses at the Botanic Gardens
2013-2014 Art Classes
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Questions? Contact WCBG Friends: wcbgfriends@wellesley. edu or 781-283-3094.
Watercolor Painting in the Botanic Gardens
Be inspired and renewed by the awesome
diversity of natural forms in Wellesley
College’s Ferguson Greenhouses. Or use
your drawings, memory and imagination to
develop ideas in the studio classroom. In
this watercolor class suitable for adults at all
levels of experience, award-winning artist/
educator Susan Swinand offers weekly
critiques and suggests projects to spark your
creativity and develop your skill in handling
watercolors. Lessons will focus on basic
design principles, learning to portray what you see, mixing color, and
watercolor painting techniques such as applying washes and glazes, wetinto-
wet color, achieving hard and soft edges, etc. With our small class
size, your individual needs and interests are addressed one-on-one.
7 Thursdays: Sept. 26; Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31; Nov. 7 WCC 14 201
Classes meet weekly 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Per 7-class series: Members $200 / Non-Members $250
Back To Basics: Fundamental Drawing Skills for Botanical Artists
Starting with how to sharpen a pencil, Carrie Megan will take you
through the progressive stages of drawing. Learn how to create a
botanically accurate line drawing, working from live
specimens using perspective and foreshortening.
Additionally, through demonstrations and drawing
exercises, Carrie will help you to get comfortable
creating varied tonal values, textures, and
depicting reflected light and highlights… all of the
techniques you will need for a solid rendering in
graphite. Beginner and beyond skill level.
So sharpen up those pencils and get ready to draw!
All abilities are welcome!
5 Mondays: October 21, 28; November 4, 18, 25
9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. BAC 14 121
Members $225 / Non-Members $275
Vellum: A Studio Focus
Explore the challenges of painting on vellum with Sarah Roche. Working
in drybrush, realize the potential of this surface. Learn to build up
complex and vibrant color while describing the form of your subject.
Bring your studies and preliminary drawings of your live specimen.
4 Tuesdays: November 12, 19, 26; December 3
9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. BAC 14 203
Members $200 / Non-Members $250
(includes cost of vellum used for class)
Mark Making Techniques: Your Inner Doodle – An Introduction to Pen and Ink
Jeanne Kunze encourages you to discover ‘your inner doodle’ as
a means of expression and learning in this non-traditional and fun
approach to interpret the variety of textures found in plants. Learn to
enrich shapes with a variety of marks using Micron pens. This means of
expression can be done anywhere, any time and may very well become
addictive.
2 Thursdays: November 14, 21
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon BAC 14 032
Members $50 / Non-Members $65
On Location: Weston Nurseries • Chelmsford
The Friends of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens is pleased to partner with Weston Nurseries
of Chelmsford, MA, to bring you plant-based art in an exciting new location.
Weston Nurseries, 160 Pine Hill Rd., Chelmsford, MA
Tonal Fall Treasures and Composition
Gourds, mums and asters will be used to explore the elements of artistic
composition. Jeanne Kunze will guide you in developing and increasing
design skills to relate multiple pictorial elements. Use graphite on paper
to develop designs expressing the shape, value and rhythm of fall’s rich
harvest on display at Weston Nurseries, Chelmsford.
4 Saturdays: October 5, 12, 19, 26
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon WCC 14 017
Class held at Weston Nurseries, 160 Pine Hill Rd., Chelmsford, MA
Members $100 / Non-Members $125
