BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION

Prerequisite: Open to all.                                    

Guided instruction in basic drawing and painting of plants, emphasizing plants in their natural surroundings.  Students spend time outside studying and sketching plants in the tidal zone, wetland,  rocky island habitats, and Celia Thaxter's historic Garden. In the classroom, students receive instruction in basic botany, microscopy and dissection, accurate drawing, watercolor, and composition.  The final project is a drawing and a watercolor in the traditional style of botanical illustration.

Instructor bios: 
Marjorie Leggitt, BA
A nationally recognized scientific illustrator, Marjorie illustrates museum exhibits, scientific monographs, college textbooks, natural history trade books, and field guides. She has taught technique, composition, and perspective classes at the Denver Botanic Gardens’ School of Botanical Art and Illustration since 1990. Intrigued by the shapes, layers and dynamics of the landscape, Marjorie started teaching field sketching at a private ranch in Colorado nearly 20 years ago. Today she offers monthly sketching and multi-day workshops throughout the United States and Europe. For Marjorie's website: CLICK HERE

Biography of Patricia Savage
Since 1989, North Carolinian Patricia Savage has been a full-time fine artist. Several of Patricia’s botanical paintings will be featured in Modern Botanical Art — Eden Re-imagined due out in 2008. The Pastel Journals’ 6th Annual Pastel 100 Competition awarded Patricia with Best in Wildlife and Honorable Mention in Wildlife. She served as Artist in-Residence in Denali National Park and joined Smith College and PBS The 1899 Harriman Expedition Retraced: A Century of Change. Her work has appeared in The Best in Wildlife Art 1 and 2, Focus Magazine (Italy), US Art, Wildlife Art, and Wildlife in North Carolina. She has exhibited at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, the Bell Museum of Natural History, the National Geographic Society, the U. S. Botanic Gardens, and Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom. To view Patricia’s artwork: CLICK HERE