07/25 OC Arboretum Outdoor Painting with Roberta Rosenthal
July 10 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
$115.00 – $135.00
Thursdays, July 10, 17, 24th
9:30am – 12:30pm
$175, $150 members
Orange County Arboretum
Thomas Bull Memorial Park
211 NY- 416 Montgomery, NY
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
Pigma Micron waterproof archival fine line pen black ink
Set of 3 0.25, 0.35, 0.45
Watercolor pencils and a small set of travel watercolors like
Raphael Watercolor travel set of 10 colors half pans. Or your own
selection of watercolors.
Set of brushes or waterbrushes
Small mist spray bottle of water
Mixing tray plastic
Think light weight for our door work.
Small blocks of watercolor paper cold press
Landscape size or Arches, Hahnemuhle or Cartiera Magnani
Portofino watercolor blocks
4.5” x 9”, or 6” x 15” good for landscapes.
This class is outdoors please have a hat, water, art supplies, bug spray and/or sunblock. You can bring a light lunch or beverage. In case of rain we may go the next day.
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.
