Conference Activities: Saturday, October 29
All-Day Classes
Breakfast on your own. Start time on trips indicates departure from hotel. End time indicates approximate return at hotel.
8:15 am: Buses depart for Wellesley College Botanic Gardens (WCBG) and Elm Bank (EB) (all day workshops)
8:30 am - 4:30 pm: Bus Trip: A Day in Historic Plymouth
Take a pilgrimage to where living history honors two cultures who came together famously in 1620 – the Pilgrims, who established a farming village, and the Wampanoag tribe, the Eastern New England native community. Enjoy lunch on your own at Plimoth Plantation’s Patuxet Café. Also visit the Plymouth Rock and Flax Pond Cranberry Farm to witness a cranberry harvest. Limit 50. Fee: $75
9 am - 4:00 pm: Racing Nature - Wendy Hollender (at WCBG, bus departs hotel at 8:15)
When a completed painting can take days or weeks to finish, how can you accomplish all the preliminary drawing and notes on a plant before it dies? Learn the necessary components to include and what information is unnecessary or perhaps even counterproductive to include. Work in pencil, colored pencil and/or watercolor to make detailed sketches to use for a finished work in the future. Limit 15. Fee: $135
9 am - 4:00 pm: Mud is a Myth - Carolyn Payzant (at EB, bus departs hotel at 8:15)
Neutrals play an important role in art; giving an overall balance of value to finish a painting. Create your own neutrals to simulate the temperate rain forest of North America, the sweltering moisture of the equatorial jungle, the parched dust of deserts, the hoarfrost of winter, and the freshness of spring. (Beneficial, not required: Fri. afternoon Color Curriculum Lecture.) Limit 15. Fee: $135.
9 am - 4:00 pm: Prickly Subjects -
John Pastoriza-Piñol (at EB, bus departs hotel at 8:15)
Learn a technique for achieving the intricacies of fine detail in your paintings. Properly protecting those critical edges in your drawing before laying down your watercolor washes is an invaluable process for contemporary botanical artists. As a result, your paintings will be brought to a new level of realism and detail. Students should have skills in drawing and watercolor. Limit 15. Fee: $135.
9 am - 4:00 pm: Composition: From Imitation to Interpretation - Hillary Parker (at EB, bus departs hotel at 8:15)
This comprehensive course looks deeper into composition by challenging the student to move beyond simply duplicating or "imitating" a subject
lying in front of them. Through fun exercises that encourage thinking in a more abstract way, students sharpen their observation and advanced drawing skills to create a small composition that "interprets" the plant's true nature and vitality with scientific accuracy, freeing them of the crutch of directly "copying" their subject. Limit 15. Fee: $135.