When: Wednesday, April 14th from 5:30PM-8:30PM EDT
Location: Online Live Class via Zoom
Instructor: Amy Tipton
As part of KNPS’s Wildflower Week 2021 activities we are incredibly excited to be able to offer this botanical drawing class.
Plants offer an unending supply of interesting shapes, textures, and details for artists to discover and translate to the page. Botanists and artists alike must develop skills of seeing plants deeply. Amy will help introduce participants to critical exploration of plant forms. An understanding of basic plant parts and floral arrangement will be discussed briefly to assure accurate representations of the selected subject specimen(s). Once the participants choose a plant/flower to draw, they will learn how to select an interesting composition, capture the subject’s proportions, create a line drawing, and complete their plant portrait with a range of values created through an exploration of different types of mark. A live Zoom format will offer opportunities for students to ask questions.
Sign Up and Zoom Registration
You can sign up for the class and get other information (supplies needed, etc.) at Amy’s KNPS Wildflower Week Botanical Drawing (Flower Portraits in Pencil) page.
Instructor
Amy Tipton is the Assistant Director of the UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens. She holds a Masters of Science degree from Eastern Kentucky University, where she studied native plant ID and plant ecology under the guidance of Dr. Ron Jones. Amy holds bachelor degrees in Drawing and Art History, as well as an MFA in Printmaking. She enjoys botanical drawing and contributed over 50 pen and ink line drawings to Jones’ Plant Life of Kentucky. Amy has been a recipient of the Ophelia Anne Dowden Education Grant from the American Society of Botanical Artists.
Amy has taught for over 20 years. Some of her past teaching posts have included instructing University-level drawing, art appreciation, and ecology, and 7th grade science as a National Science Foundation Fellow. She often presents talks for those interested in native plants. Since her arrival at UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens in July of 2018, Amy has taught Wildflower ID, Native Tree ID, Native Shrub ID, Botanical Drawing I and II, Pressing Plants for Science and Art, and Botanical Watercolor for the Certificate of Native Plant Studies program. Amy has previously served on the board and strategic planning committee for the KNPS, and currently is active with the North Carolina Native Plant Society.