Wild Garden Painting for Kids
Saturday, August 1, 1 :30-4:00, $40 (member), $45 (non-
member)
Kids & adults are invited to play with ink,
watercolor, brush, stick
and other found garden objects to
explore easy and quite beautiful
ways to create
spontaneous paintings & folding books. Age 7 and up.
Botanical Garden Field Journal Workshops
Andie will freely share her field-friendly tricks and techniques
for
working outdoors to capture botanical gesture, detail and
color.
Luminous quilt-like field journal pages will result. Each
day stands
alone, or combines for greatest impact. For all
levels.
Garden Field Journal: Color & Design
Friday, August 7, 9 :30-4:00
We will practice straightforward ways to accurately mix the
vast
range of summer's palette. Next, we will study page
design, using
medieval techniques to magically compose
beautiful journal pages.
Garden Field Journal : Watercolor Illumination
Saturday, August 8, 9:30-4:00
Foundations gained in Friday's class will be applied to create
imagery in layers of watercolor, gouache, pencil and ink,
conjuring
up a sense of the wild complexity of plants growing
outdoor.
Each day: $115 (member), $135 (non-member)
Take both days together: $195 (member), $210 (non-
member)
Andie Thrams is a painter and book artist whose work
focuses on wild plants
and places. Her teaching combines
excitment for creative work in the outdoors
with inspiring art
techniques and sound design fundamentals. Her work is
widely exhibited, collected and published . She teaches for
San Francisco Center
for the Book, Sitka Center for Art &
Ecology, San Francisco State Univeristy
Field Campus, and
others. Andie lived in Alaska for many years and now makes
her home in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada .