Lee McCaffree is a botanical illustrator in watercolor. The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden is located at: 301 North Baldwin Ave, Arcadia, CA 91007. Cancellations up to two weeks before the class date will be charged a $30.00 cancellation fee.īring your lunch, or purchase lunch at the Peacock Café, on the Arboretum grounds. Send checks, made out to BAGSC, in full, to BAGSC Treasurer Janice Sharp. Usual art supplies in your media choice, including a magnifier.1 or 2 paintings that you want to finish.We will look at ways to present your piece with mats and frames depending on your intended goal for display. We will complete the process by discussing labeling. After identifying ways to finish your painting(s), there will be time in class to work on these details. This will include ways to change or clean up places to make your painting details more realistic. Questions to consider will include: Where is my focal point? Do I have enough value change? Do the plant parts have volume and perspective? Are they botanically correct? Where has the paint or pencil gone astray either on my plant edges or in the negative space?Ĭlass members will apply these observations to their paintings along with techniques in completing details such as dry brush, washes or corrections. We will work with each other to see our work through another’s eye. The artist needs to be objective in looking at their images. It is important to keep a freshness and avoid overworking. Good observation helps one see if a painting needs improvement, whether it is nearly finished or in progress. How do you know your art work is finished? Sometimes it is just a feeling that the painting is finished or something isn’t quite right. Your usual art supplies for your paintings, any media.2 paintings (of yours), unfinished or finished, to share in critiques.Copies of 2 paintings (not yours) that you like.Class time will include individual opportunities for making improvements on work in progress. We will work cooperatively by sharing ideas to make this a positive experience for each artist to learn about their own work. Topics will include subject matter, botanical accuracy, painting skills, light source, color, form and compositional structure, balance and space. We will use many published works as well as class members’ works to practice these methods. By using different techniques to view paintings the observer will have more ways to analyze with objective eyes. We will investigate ways to critique a work of art. Maximum number of participants (in each class): 15 Each of these important subjects will be conducted in a friendly, supportive, congenial atmosphere. This painting by Lee was part of the “Weird, Wild & Wonderful” exhibition.īAGSC member Lee McCaffree will be teaching two botanical art classes in March: one about how to finish a painting the other about how to critique a work of art (and self-critique your own).īoth classes will be held at the Los Angeles Arboretum, from 9:30 am – 3:30 pm. Aristolochia californica, California Pipevine, watercolor by Lee McCaffree, © 2016, all rights reserved.
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