Conference Activities: Saturday, November 1, 2008
All-Day Classes

Activities at the Hilton

ASBA Plenary Session – Buffet Breakfast and Board Reports:
7:30–9am

Creating Beautiful Botanical Art with Jenny Phillips:
9am–4pm (Day 2 of two days)

Join legendary artist and instructor Jenny Phillips who will guide you to achieve form, surface detail and texture through drawing and then painting. Fee $260 - Limit 20.

Illustrating from the Herbarium with Bobbi Angell: 9am–4pm

Bobbi has drawn over 2,400 illustrations from herbarium specimens over nearly 30 years. You will prepare sketches and compose plates using pressed specimens of plants, exploring ways to restore life to flattened dried forms, focusing on diagnostic characters to accurately depict individual species.
Fee: $150 (includes some materials) - Limit 16. Materials List PDF

Hilton Buffet Lunch with Chapter Posters on Display: 12-1 pm

Activities at the Getty

The Getty Museum Field Trip and "Behind-the-Scenes" Tour:
9:30am-5pm

Arrive at The Getty for a self-guided tour and lunch on your own (many options there). A limited number of spaces are available for an official Behind the Scenes Guided Tour from 1–3:30 PM to see original Maria Sybilla Merian paintings, original Joris Hoefnagel manuscript illuminations, and rare books of botanical art.
Fee for Getty Trip $25 (Behind the Scenes Tour, additional $10)
Limit 50 total for bus, Behind the Scenes Tour - Limit 30.

Activities at the Huntington

Light on Form in Color with Mindy Lighthipe: 10am–3:45pm

Learn to extend the range, maintain local color, and render acccurate light on form using the industry standard scientific light source. Understand how color translates into tonal value. Fee: $125. Limit 16. Materials List PDF

Master Class in Watercolor (Day 2 of two days)
with Pandora Sellars: 10am–3:45pm

Known for her incredible, fine detail and striking contemporary compositions, Pandora will share her knowledge in this two-day workshop.
Intermediate to Advanced Students, Fee - $350 - Limit 12.

No Color...No Kidding!™– On Vellum! with Martha Kemp:
10am–3:45pm (2nd Offering)

Graphite drawing is all about control, but vellum has a way of insinuating its own texture into the finished look. Under Martha’s guidance, explore the subtle ways that vellum can enhance and enliven your graphite pencil botanical drawings.
Fee $180 (includes vellum) - Limit 16. (An additional class is offered on Friday.)Materials List PDF

Chinese Brush Painting in the Garden with Gloria Whea-Fun Teng: 10am–3:45pm

Learn the basics of traditional Chinese brush painting, similar to Sumi-e. In the
Chinese garden of Huntington, you will be inspired to find the essence of the plant
and the graceful gesture that characterizes this art form. Fee $125. - Limit 16.

Huntington Gourmet Box Lunch: 12-1 pm