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06/25 Botanical Drawing in Watercolor Pencil and Watercolor with Roberta Rosenthal
June 5 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
$150.00 – $175.00
Thursdays, June 5, 12, 19, 26th
10:00am -1:00 pm
$175, $150 members
For intermediate and advanced students
Working from live specimens and photos we will create a background behind accurate botanical subjects. Draw and paint using watercolor pencils and tube or block watercolor. Create an atmosphere of time and place. Learn to blend pencils and watercolor layers. Artists will work from live specimens and photos.
MATERIALS LIST
12” X 16” Arches cold press block of watercolor paper 140 lb.
HB pencil / mechanical or art pencil
Erasers kneaded and magic run
Watercolor pencils best quality is Caran D’Ache Supracolor II
watercolor pencils set of 24, 36, 48, 120 what ever you can
afford. Suggested additional color bluish pale and Chinese
white.
Brushes fine round pointed brushes suggested Raphael
kolinsky sable #8404 sizes 0, 1, 2, 4, 6 and a flat brush ½” wide
or ¾ “ wide a 1” brush. Or synthetic brush is okay too.
Plastic Water containers, paper towels, ruler, scissor, watercolor
tape
Optional: Tracing paper and transfer paper
For over 40 years Roberta shared her expertise with hundreds of students as an instructor in both Botanical Art and Business Practices for Artists at the famed New York Botanical Garden and more recently locally at Wallkill River Center for the Arts School and Gallery, Desmond Campus of Mount Saint Mary College, Wurtsboro Art Alliance, Catskill Art Society, Ellenville Museum Library and Pine Bush Library. Her art is exhibited internationally, collected by individuals and corporations. Roberta continues to travel finding unusual botanical specimens to paint or landscapes that she captures in plein air or sketches for future studio work. Her current home studio, Squirrel’s Nest, is located on top of Shawanga Mountain in Sullivan County, New York with a view of the Hudson Valley.
Limit 6-8 students.
