Mother and Daughter share an evening out. Mom has only taken a few art classes, while daughter has had many. Mom did quite well for her first time painting in pastel!
Self-Directed Courses
Dates:
Tuesdays, February 7-March 6, 2012, 2:00 – 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Wednesdays, February 8-March 7, 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Level of Experience: beginner to advanced
Class Size Limit: 6
Mediums: pastel, dry-brush watercolor, non-traditional egg tempera, graphite pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, scratchboard, and carbon dust
Subject Matter: floral art, traditional botanical illustration, landscape, composition, color theory
Fee: $125 or $25 per session. To reserve your space, please send me a check for the full amount of classes you will be taking and let me know what dates you want. You can float between classes, but I must know ahead of time to ensure that there is space for you. If you and a friend cannot do these dates, please do not hesitate to call me. If we can get another person or two to add to your number, we can have a class on the day that works best for your schedule.
Bored with your current painting technique? Struggling with a painting? Having trouble with a composition? My mission is to help you troubleshoot your paintings and to help you find your own unique style and medium and to have fun. This class provides a supportive and safe atmosphere so that you can challenge yourself by learning a new medium or take yourself outside your comfort zone and learn a new technique. The small class size will allow you to receive lots of feedback and hands on help from the instructor.
Some of the ideas and methods you can explore further are:
- how to paint from photographs,
- how to start a new painting,
- how to layer colors and not make mud,
- how to achieve color harmony in your painting,
- how to use color to help enhance the volume of your shapes,
- how to do a wash in watercolor,
- how to do an underpainting for a pastel, and
- how to paint and draw gradations in values.
Bring your own art supplies and light. You may paint from your own photographs or bring a small still life. If you wish to try a new technique, for a nominal supply fee, you may rent my supplies.
Location: 816 Valerie Dr., Raleigh, NC 27606
Contact: Patricia Savage
919-859-2789 (h), 919-438-6676 (m)
p_savage@bellsouth.net
Sunny Faces
How to Paint a Flat Wash
Prerequisties: None
Dates: Saturday, February 11, 2012
Time: 1:15 – 4:45 pm
Level of Experience: none
Class Size Limit: 15
Fee: $120 ($110 NCBG members)
Working on pre-stretched watercolor paper, we will tackle painting a flat wash. This class will also address painting around the subject matter, how to prevent blossoms, collect beads of water, and prevent pinholes from forming.
Contact: You may register in person at the North Carolina Botanical Garden’s Education Center OR call the Garden at 919-962-0522, weekdays 8 – 5, to verify space availability. You may also go online and register at ncbg.unc.edu/pages/26/#bot_ill. and then please fill out the registration form [PDF] and mail with your payment to:
North Carolina Botanical Garden
attn: Education Department
University of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 3375
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3375
Payment can be made by check, VISA, or MasterCard. Make checks payable to “NCBG” with “program registration” in the memo line.
How to Paint a Feather
Prerequisties: None
Dates: Saturday, February 26, 2012
Time: 1:15 – 4:45 pm
Level of Experience: none
Class Size Limit: 15
Fee: $120 ($110 NCBG members)
This class will explore painting how to lay down washes and paint the fine details of a feather using the dry-brush watercolor technique.
Contact: You may register in person at the North Carolina Botanical Garden’s Education Center OR call the Garden at 919-962-0522, weekdays 8 – 5, to verify space availability. You may also go online and register at ncbg.unc.edu/pages/26/#bot_ill. and then please fill out the registration form [PDF] and mail with your payment to:
North Carolina Botanical Garden
attn: Education Department
University of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 3375
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3375
Payment can be made by check, VISA, or MasterCard. Make checks payable to “NCBG” with “program registration” in the memo line.
Study for Gardenia in My Garden
Basic Drawing
Prerequisties: None
Dates: Sundays, March 4, 11, 18, 25, 2012
Time: 1:15 – 4:45 pm
Level of Experience: none
Class Size Limit: 15
Fee: $120 ($110 NCBG members)
This course is the entry course for the certificate program and designed for a broad audience. Students learn the fundamentals of illustration through contour drawing, negative space, perspective, and tone.
Contact: You may register in person at the North Carolina Botanical Garden’s Education Center OR call the Garden at 919-962-0522, weekdays 8 – 5, to verify space availability. You may also go online and register at ncbg.unc.edu/pages/26/#bot_ill. and then please fill out the registration form [PDF] and mail with your payment to:
North Carolina Botanical Garden
attn: Education Department
University of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 3375
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3375
Payment can be made by check, VISA, or MasterCard. Make checks payable to “NCBG” with “program registration” in the memo line.
Mixing and Matching Color
Prerequisites: None
Dates: April 15, 2012
Time: 1:15 – 4:45 pm
Level of Experience: none
Class Size Limit: 15
Fee: $120 ($110 NCBG members)
All budding watercolorists have puzzled over how to find the right pigments for a particular color, how to mix that color on a palette, and how to paint the color transparently with minimal pick-up of layers. In this workshop, students will learn through a series of exercises how to determine the hue of the color and its warmth or coolness. Students will learn basic pigment mixing and how to paint transparent layers with dry-brush watercolor. Working with these basic principles and technique will give the beginning watercolorist the tools to find and apply any color in the rainbow.
Contact: You may register in person at the North Carolina Botanical Garden’s Education Center OR call the Garden at 919-962-0522, weekdays 8 – 5, to verify space availability. You may also go online and register at ncbg.unc.edu/pages/26/#bot_ill. and then please fill out the registration form [PDF] and mail with your payment to:
North Carolina Botanical Garden
attn: Education Department
University of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 3375
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3375
Payment can be made by check, VISA, or MasterCard. Make checks payable to “NCBG” with “program registration” in the memo line.
Beech Tree Rising from the Field
Beech Tree Rising from the Field
Color Theory
Prerequisites: Basic Drawing, Watercolor II
Dates: Sundays, April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2012
Time: 1:15 – 4:45 pm
Level of Experience: none
Class Size Limit: 12
Fee: $120 ($110 NCBG members)
Color theory is the study of how colors relate to one another. This class will cover how to find a particular hue, the push and pull of warm and cool pigments, the zing of a saturated color and the importance of beautiful muted color, how values create depth, and the beauty of complementary colors.
Class Size Limit 12.
Contact: You may register in person at the North Carolina Botanical Garden’s Education Center OR call the Garden at 919-962-0522, weekdays 8 – 5, to verify space availability. You may also go online and register at ncbg.unc.edu/pages/26/#bot_ill. and then please fill out the registration form [PDF] and mail with your payment to:
North Carolina Botanical Garden
attn: Education Department
University of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 3375
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3375
Payment can be made by check, VISA, or MasterCard. Make checks payable to “NCBG” with “program registration” in the memo line.
Painting in Pastels
Not quite finished paintings the GNSI-C students produced during a weekend workshop in October, 2011.
Discovering the Landscape in Pastels
Pictures from our very wet painting day at the 2011 GNSI Annual Conference in Olympia, Washington.
Me teaching at 2011 GNSI Annual Conference
Marjorie Leggitt taught her wonderful field sketching technique in the morning.
Painting the Landscape in Pastel
This uncompleted demonstration piece for a workshop in “Painting the Landscape in Pastel” for the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL was done on gatorboard with an underpainting of burnt umber mixed with Golden’s Fine Pumice Gel and applied with a 3″ paintbrush.
These four paintings were done by several of the students in the 2010 workshop. It was a cloudy, rainy day so we painted inside looking out onto the beautiful grounds of the arboretum.