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The Chicago Botanic Garden is a world-renowned living museum and conservation science center that offers multiple unique nature courses spread throughout 26 gardens and four natural areas on 385 acres.
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Gouache and Watercolor
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
The Chicago Botanic Garden’s online botanical art class is a virtual experience you can take anywhere! Gouache is a kind of opaque watercolor that has a flat, graphic quality that gives it a modern look. Compared to watercolor, it kicks the color intensity up a notch. Henri Matisse used gouache to create his brightly colored papercut art: first painting the paper, then cutting out shapes. In this class, you will use gouache and watercolors to create...
Gardening Techniques: Session A
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Learn tips and techniques used by professional gardeners through a combination of lecture and hands-on activities. Acquire solid gardening skills and determine best management practices. Discover fall planting techniques, bulbs, turf care, plant wildlife protection, garden maintenance, and winterization. Dress for the weather. A supply list will be sent. Thursday class sessions will be taught online via Zoom and Saturday sessions will be held...
Fine Art Photography Portfolio B
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Explore design techniques of today’s best contemporary fine art photographers with an emphasis on conceptual photography. Practice the techniques by doing weekly exercises based on class lessons. Finally, use design techniques to create your own professional portfolio worthy of exhibition. This course is designed for intermediate photographers. Digital SLR or mirrorless camera are mandatory. This class will be taught online via Zoom....
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Expressive Watercolor
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Explore the fluid beauty of the watercolor medium and learn watercolor techniques. Each session will progress to a more controlled “found” finish. There will be a strong emphasis on values and design. Three class sessions will be taught online via Zoom and three class sessions will be taught at the Chicago Botanic Garden. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class starts. Registered students will receive...
Watercolor: Sun on the Winter Landscape
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Our online watercolor class about sunlight art techniques is a virtual experience you can take anywhere. Inspired by the beauty of winter, you will learn techniques to capture sunlight in your watercolors and how to interpret the quality of the light’s color and temperature. Winter shadows do not have to be blue, but can be enhanced with other colors. You will explore texture and the impacts of surprising touches of warm color. A supply list...
Photo Artistry with Photoshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Unleash your creativity and transform your photographs into captivating works of art with the power of Photoshop. Learn how to combine and blend layers, select and mask elements, and apply adjustment layers to create stunning new versions of reality, abstract masterpieces, and surreal worlds. Prior experience in Photoshop or a similar program is recommended.
Botanical Drawing 2: Online
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Enhance your botanical drawing skills with advanced techniques in graphite, light and dark media, and carbon dust. Join this online course offered by the Chicago Botanic Garden and continue your artistic journey. Prerequisite: Botanical Drawing 1.
Holiday Calligraphy Workshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Learn the art of holiday calligraphy and add a personal touch to your holiday cards, gift tags, and thank-you notes. Join the Chicago Botanic Garden's online class to create beautiful holiday motifs and embellishments in an enjoyable virtual experience you can take anywhere. Register now to receive login instructions and a supply list for this festive class.
Workflow for Beginning Photographers
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Capturing a digital photograph is just one step in a multi-step process called the digital workflow, which is essential to managing and retrieving your photos. Students will learn methods of importing, storing, organizing, editing, and final polishing of images. Image sizing, card formatting, understanding differences between web and print file types, and external drive storage will be covered. Prerequisite: Beginning Digital...
Composition in Landscape Photography
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Refine your landscape photography skills through the art of composition, mastering elements like pattern, symmetry, and depth of field. Each week, delve deep into one composition element to acquire techniques for enhancing your photographic vision. Elevate your craft with newfound skills that promise to elevate the impact of your landscape captures.
Thu, Jun 29th, 6:30–8:30pm CDT
(10 hours over 5 sessions)
Drawing for the Absolute Beginner
Drawing will help you learn to see more clearly and deeply—a wonderful way to enrich your life. Using pencil and paper and working with beautiful botanical subjects, you will learn to draw with gentle, fear-free, proven methods. A supply list will be sent. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class starts. Registered students will receive login instructions one day in advance....
Colored Pencil Fundamentals
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Broaden your creativity through colored pencil application techniques with an emphasis on transitioning from graphite to color. Various finishing techniques unique to colored pencils will be introduced. Emphasizing form, drawing skills will be strengthened, facilitating your personal expression through botanical art. Live plant specimens will be used in demonstrations. A supply list will be sent. Prerequisite: Previous experience...
For the Birds: Wildlife in Landscape Art
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
You will paint animation and life into your watercolor landscapes with the addition of birds and animals either in motion or resting. Learn how to create a balance between nature and wildlife while being true to both. You will work with watercolor. A supply list will be sent. Prerequisite: Botanical Drawing 1 or similar coursework and painting experience. This class will be taught online via Zoom. Registered students will receive...
Pen and Ink 2
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Explore advanced pen-and-ink techniques and composition in botanical documentation and illustration. You will draw a plant of your choice and its dissected parts, with emphasis on creating a traditional, beautiful, scientific botanical plate. While perfecting skills in linear and tonal drawing, students will learn to communicate accurate botanical information and the value of aesthetics in scientific botanical art. A supply list will be sent. Prerequisites...
Gardening Techniques: Session B
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Learn tips and techniques used by professional gardeners through a combination of lecture and hands-on activities. Acquire solid gardening skills and determine best management practices. Topics range from general grounds maintenance, winterization, and plantings, to other horticultural practices. Portions of this class will be taught online via Zoom. Registered students will receive login instructions one day in advance. A supply list will be sent....
Intermediate Digital Photography: Online
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Learn advanced techniques to take your photography skills to the next level in this online course. Discover how to use lead lines, selective manual focus, and appropriate aperture settings to capture impressive and artistic images. Prerequisite: Beginning Digital Photography or consent of the instructor.
Drawing Cast Shadows
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Cast shadows (shadows cast by your subject onto a surface) can ground a subject and create beautiful design elements. Employing artful lighting, you will explore techniques that really make a cast shadow work for you and create dramatic images. A supply list will be sent with your confirmation.
Watercolor: Beyond the Basics
After you complete Introduction to Watercolor, continue to learn various techniques and color theory while exploring different ways to combine light, color, and textures in watercolor painting. A supply list will be sent.
Painting Flowers Up-close and Personal
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
There is a hidden world of beauty, shapes, and colors lying beneath representational painting. You will create several paintings of floral subjects, each week studying composition from closer perspectives. As the subject matter dissolves, the abstract will open your eyes to an exciting perspective. A supply list will be sent. All media welcome.
Beginning Watercolor Mini Session
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Watercolor is a delightfully fun medium. You will learn a variety of watercolor techniques, including washes and how to make a range of textures on paper, plus some color theory to get you started. No prior experience is necessary. A supply list will be sent.
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