North Carolina Botanical Garden Advanced Traditional Colored Pencil - Virtual
with Christiane Fashek, Professional Artist
Dates: Wednesdays, April 12, 19, 26 and May 3
Time: 9:15 AM-12:45 PM ET
Fee: $210 ($189 Members)
This course builds on Beginning and Intermediate Colored Pencil techniques. Using a live plant and/or reference photographs of their choice, students will create a small series of colored pencil pieces of native North Carolina plant(s).
Prerequisite: Intermediate Colored Pencil.
Note: This class involves homework assignments. The amount of time students need to spend on homework varies and usually ranges from five to fifteen hours per week.
Remaining Seats: 12
Registration open through 4/11/2023 12:00 PM EST
Christiane Fashek is a botanical artist based in New York. Formerly an architect, she transferred her interest in form and structure to the study and illustration of lichens and natural ephemera. She earned her New York Botanical Garden Certificate of Botanical Art and Illustration with honors. Pencil is her preferred medium, particularly colored pencil combined with dry brush. Christiane is a member of the ASBA, the Tri-State Botanical Artists Circle and the Colored Pencil Collective. She co-founded the Central Texas Botanical Artists Circle. She is also a Society of Botanical Artists Fellow and a member of the Colored Pencil Society of America. She was awarded ASBA’s 2022 Esther Plotnick Artist Grant for “Lichens in the Limelight” bringing lichens and botanical art into classrooms. See samples of Christiane’s work on her Instagram accounts: @christianefashek and @lichensinthelimelight
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Virtual
This program will be offered online via Zoom.
A meeting link and password will be sent a few days before the program.