North Carolina Botanical Garden Composition: The Bones of a Painting
with Patricia Savage, Professional Artist
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Dates: Fridays, February 3, 10, 17 and 24
Time: 1:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Fee: $210 ($189 Members)
This course is a broad study in the elements that formulate a good artistic composition. Students learn how to make visual choices and determine how parts of a plant are arranged on the page to balance botanical accuracy and artistic sensitivity.
Composition serves as a prerequisite for Integrating Composition and Color Theory. Note: This class involves homework assignments. The amount of time students need to spend on homework varies and usually ranges from five to 15 hours per week.
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Patricia Savage has been a fine artist since 1989. She was awarded Best and Honorable Mention in Wildlife in the Pastel Journal’s Sixth Annual Pastel Top 100. She served as artist-in-residence in Denali National Park and expedition artist for The 1899 Harriman Expedition Retraced. Her work has appeared in Botanical Art: Eden Re-imagined, The Best of Wildlife Art 1 and 2, Focus (Italy), U.S. Art, Wildlife Art, and Wildlife in North Carolina. Patricia has exhibited her work at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, the Bell Museum of Natural History, the National Geographic Society, the U.S. Botanic Garden, and Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom. She is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America and the Society of Animal Artists. She also belongs to the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators and GNSI-Carolinas, Paint N.C., and the Pastel Society of North Carolina. To see Patricia’s paintings go to www.psavageartist.com and friend her on Facebook.
Composition: Credits - 1
This course fulfills a core requirement in our Certificate in Botanical Art & Illustration program.
Joslin Classroom I (C106)
100 Old Mason Farm Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27517
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