Exploring the Intense Beauty of the Dry Fruits and Seeds Through Watercolor with Fatima Zagonel A full day dedicated to the intense beauty of the dry fruits and seeds. Mixing the yellows, reds, and blues to create your own browns. Exploring the opposite...

A Glorious Obsession with Helen Allen The Medlar, Mespilus germanica, has become more popular over the past decade as a garden/orchard tree and for its exotic fruits that are mentioned in Shakespeare’s plays and eaten in Tudor times in the court of...

Mastering Composition in Graphite with Irina Neascu This class is suitable for beginners and intermediates. It consists of various fast exercises on composition. Playing with various subjects, we will discuss how to approach, or rather not to approach...

Rendering in Mixed Dry Techniques with Irina Neascu This class is suitable for intermediates and advanced. It will focus on how to mix techniques while keeping the focus sharp, and on how to choose which is which - graphite or watercolor - in a botanical...

Painting Structure! with Jean Emmons What takes a painting from good to great? Painting structure! The sculptural qualities of gourds offer us an opportunity for an in-depth study of what makes or breaks a painting, while a contemporary approach with...

Dynamic Duo: Colored Pencil and Pan Pastel on Drafting Film with Jeanne Reiner Translucent drafting film and colored pencils are ideal partners. This material is perfect for drawing fine details and intricate linework. Additionally, the use of Pan...

Painting Late Summer Plants and Flowers with John Pastoriza-Piñol Learning outcomes include: Creating detailed sketches of different plants, focusing on buds, flowers, and leaves. Capturing challenging angles of leaves and flowers. Exploring...

SYTYCD 2024 So You Think You Can Draw? with John Pastoriza-Piñol Learning outcomes include: Master the 3 line technique Learn about the concentric ellipses method Meet the Vortex 1,2,3,4 & 5 point perspectives Sea-shell challenge  This...

Field to Frame: Developing Sketches into Compositions with Lara Call Gastinger Join Lara Call Gastinger at the Pittsburgh Botanic Gardens as we sketch outside in the morning and work on documenting details about botanical specimens such as plant habit,...

Illustrating Ferns with Laura Silburn We will look at garden and houseplant ferns to explore the botany of this fascinating and ancient group of plants and consider how you might go about recording them in graphite. As we go along, we will do some...

Sharpen Up! – Using Dry Brush to Crisp Edges and Smooth Blends with Laura Silburn Bring your work into focus in the final stages for clarity and crispness. We will look at which brush to use and how much water to add, we’ll consider how to...

Creating Botanical Sketchbook Studies Using Pen & Ink with Watercolor with Lucy T Smith In this workshop we will explore the technique of using pen and ink with watercolor in our botanical sketchbooks to document a group of plants representing a...

Drawing Trees From Life with Lucy T Smith Using trees at the Pittsburgh Botanical Gardens as our subject matter, we will take on the challenge of drawing trees from life in our sketchbooks “en plein air!” The first steps will be to find the...

The Mushroom Hunter’s Sketchbook with Margaret Saylor Learn the basics of capturing mushrooms and fungi's unique shapes and textures in this fun workshop as we observe, document, and illustrate subjects found while foraging. Keeping a sketchbook is...

Looking at Detail and Structure with Marianne Hazlewood Learn to observe closely, measure and draw the topography of a specimen using landmarks, work in the structure and then build tone and color. I would like to demonstrate and work with you on...

An Apple a Day… Capturing the Texture and Character of Apple Using Damp and Dry Watercolor Techniques with Mary Dillon 'An apple a day…. ‘ get your teeth into capturing the texture and character of apples using damp and dry...

That Which We Call A Rose with Mary Dillon Paint a petal or two of sweet-smelling roses using blended watercolor techniques to create beautiful contours. We’ll explore and practice creating soft transitions before then applying these techniques to...

Calligraphy for Botanical Artists with Molly Kunkel Enhance your botanical artwork and journals with the beautiful art of calligraphy! In this beginner’s class we will engage with the shapes and forms that create calligraphy letterforms. You will...

Using Mixed Colored Media on Coquille Board with Scott Rawlins This workshop is a step into mixing graphite and watercolor for a rich and powerful composition. This is exactly why we will take time to question and explore composition until we find its...

The Mystique of Carbon Dust with Scott Rawlins Carbon dust has been a mainstay medium for natural science illustrators for nearly a century. The technique combines carbon pencil lines and dust “washes” applied with brushes,...