With the first snowdrops and daffodils, spring flowers are a count-down to warmer days when we can spend more time outdoors enjoying the myriad shapes and colors of blossoms! For this online illustration class, students will select a different flowering plant each week from their garden or local florist to create a simple painting (“portrait”). Classes will take place online on Thursdays from 10 AM - 1 PM, beginning Thursday, May 5.

Select flowering plants, shrubs, vines or trees that interest you. For example, pansies, gardenia, dogwood, magnolia, and clematis.

Then, you will follow along with live demonstrations by the instructor to learn how to layer colors to match a variety of delicate, transparent colors, as well as practical strategies to paint white blossoms.  Tips for arranging multiple elements into a pleasing design on your page are presented throughout the course.

Some drawing and watercolor experience preferred. Classes will be led by Kathie Miranda, a contemporary multi-media artist and educator. A graduate of Pace University, with further studies at Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts and Paier College of Art, she coordinated the Art program at the New York Botanical Garden and is past-president of the New York chapter of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators.

Admission is $153 for Bartlett members and $170 for non-members. Interested in becoming a member? Learn more here.