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by Deb Shaw
Cristina Baltayian will continue her monthly series of botanical art classes at the LA Arboretum through the Fall:
4 Tuesdays per session per month
10am – 2pm (includes lunch break) / Oak Room
The Fall session dates are:
October 4, 11, 18, 25
November 1, 8, 15, 22
December 6, 13, 20, 27
Costs are $275 for Arboretum members per month / $295 non-members per month (includes Arboretum Admission).
To register, please call the LA Arboretum Education Department at 626.821.4623 or pay at the class.
These classes will explore color pencil, graphite, pen and ink, and watercolor on various papers, vellum and other surfaces. The emphasis will be on plant observation, drawing, composition, color theory and matching, and medium techniques. In conjunction with the Botanical Artists Guild of Southern California, students will be studying and portraying many of the Arboretum plant introductions from the last 50 years. The goal is to build a collection of paintings that will celebrate and document the invaluable contribution of the Los Angeles Arboretum to the state of California.
The LA Arboretum is located at: 301 North Baldwin Ave, Arcadia, CA 91007.
by Sally Jacobs, posted by Deb Shaw
E-invite for Sally Jacobs exhibition, Larger than Life at TAG Gallery.
Sally Jacobs will be giving an “Artists’ Panel” for her exhibition, Larger than Life this Saturday, October 8, 2016 at 3:00 pm at the TAG Gallery in Bergamot Station Arts Center. It’s a great way to see the show and hear about her approach, technique, and more.
The Los Angeles Times gave the show a great review! See the LA Times review of Larger than Life here: http://www.latimes.com/home/la-hm-sally-jacobs-20160926-snap-story.html
The gallery is located at:
TAG Gallery
Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Ave., D3, Santa Monica, CA 90404
310.829.9556
Contact: gallery@taggallery.net | http://www.taggallery.net
by Veronica Raymond and Deb Shaw
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has created an internal online resource for staff and volunteers for What’s In Bloom! [Click on the title to be connected to the link.]
Although this in-house resource is not generally available to the public, Jim Folsom, the Marge & Sherm Telleen/Earle & Marion Jorgensen Director of the Botanical Gardens, has shared the link to this fabulous site for use by botanical artists.
Thank you to Jim and his team for producing this valuable resource!
by Estelle DeRidder, posted by Deb Shaw
As part of the 9th California Island Symposium, the Island Art Exhibition now moves from the Ventura Beach Marriott to the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.
The public is invited to the opening reception of the Island Art Exhibition at the Pritzlaff Conservation Center at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden on October 11 from 6 – 7:30 pm. Guests will be able to enjoy the art and views of the Channel Islands. Light appetizers and refreshments will be served. The event is free, but registration is required. The exhibition will be on display at the Garden from October 11 through November 6, 2016.
Plantanus racemosa, California Sycamore, Watercolor by Mitsuko Schultz, © 2016, all rights reserved.
First place went to an acrylic painting by Marcia Burtt that depicts Prisoners Harbor on Santa Cruz Island. Nicole Strasburg won second place with a gouache etching of Scorpion Valley on Santa Cruz Island. Third place winner Estelle DeRidder used colored pencil to illustrate a native Toyon. An honorable mention was awarded to Mitsuko Schultz for her watercolor of a California Sycamore.
Registration and information for the opening reception at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is available on their website.
About the Island Art Exhibition:
The Island Art Exhibition explores creative practices at the intersection of art and science as a component of the California Islands Symposium. The Islands Symposia have been held every five years since 1965, and present recent work in all disciplines of natural, environmental, and cultural science on the California Islands, which include all of the islets, rocks, and islands off the Pacific coast of California and Baja California, Mexico. This juried art exhibition encourages a greater understanding and appreciation of the unique California Islands. The display features original paintings, watercolors, and pen and ink drawings that reflect the beauty of the islands.
About the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden:
The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is a 78-acre nonprofit educational and scientific institution that conserves California’s native plants through gardens, research, education, and sustainable practices. The Garden was founded in 1926 and is one of the nation’s oldest botanical gardens focused exclusively on native plants.
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