Long Term Botanical Illustration Course, NGBB, Istanbul

Long Term Botanical Illustration Course, NGBB, Istanbul

Through demonstration and one-on-one guidance the course is perfect for the artists to improve their skills to render plants in even greater scientific detail combined with the artistic techniques needed to create truly beautiful botanical illustrations and plant portraits.

Through demonstration and one-on-one guidance the course is perfect for the artists to improve their skills to render plants in even greater scientific detail combined with the artistic techniques needed to create truly beautiful botanical illustrations and plant portraits.Courses are offered in how to observe, how to reproduce, all based on understanding of the life of the living object, its structure, its characteristic features.
In this course plants and its parts, colors and textures will be examined in detail. This course will focus on sketch drawings and importance of this, transferring the drawing to watercolor paper using transfer paper and all the issues to consider before you start a painting. Basics and details of two-brush watercolor technique will be demonstrated on different subjects. You will find the opportunity to work on different types of leaves and veins, flowers and its parts, learn more about color mixing techniques, texture, shading, volume and composition.

Dates and Program: Both course will continue for 10 weeks, one in the weekend, one in the week.

COURSE I- Saturday COURSE II- Monday Subject
5th January 7th January History of Botanical Illustration, Botany
12 January 14 January Drawing
19 January 21 January Perspective and Depth
16th February 18th February Mixing colours, Colour Theory
9th February 11th February Painting techniques
23th February 25th February Texture
2nd March 4tn March Flowers and the details
9th March 11th March Painting technique’s of white and yellow flowers
16th March 18th March Working on Stem and the Roots
23th March 25th March Composition. Delivery of the Project*

* Delivery of the project that students will prepare the sketches and the final picture of the subject during the course.

Time: 10.00 am – 15.00 pm
Tutor: Işık Güner
Location: Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanic Garden, Education Center, Istanbul
Price: 600 TL for one person. There will be %20 discount for the people who already took some Botanical Art Classes at NGBB

  DEPOSIT JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH
Full Price 100 TL 200 TL 150 TL 150 TL
%20 Discount 100 TL 180 TL 100 TL 100 TL

Info: Courses are limited with 12 people and submission deadline is 20th of October 2012. If there is less than 8 people, course will be cancelled. This course is suitable for anyone.
Contact: Burçin Çingay – etkinlik@ngbb.org.tr / Işık Güner – info@isikguner.com
Or you can call 0216 456 44 37 for more information.

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