BOTANICAL ART Classes at Lasdon Arboretum

Lasdon Park and Arboretum is a magnificent 234-acre property consisting of woodlands, open grass meadows and formal gardens that offer a picturesque area to view and paint various tree, shrub and flower specimens from all over the world.

Classes are taught in a beautiful light filled room in the Colonial Revival-style main house. The serene setting and beautiful plants at Lasdon provide a peaceful and inspirational place to take classes.

The drawing classes focus on learning to observe and draw with accuracy. The techniques of laying graphite down smoothly to create a beautiful drawing, and the study of light on form to give the drawing three-dimensional artistic beauty, are taught. After gaining proficiency with the fundamentals of drawing, most students continue on, and take classes in botanical watercolor painting, colored pencil or botany.

In these classes the drawing skills learned are built upon, and various techniques for watercolor painting are studied. Painting skills are learned, practiced and perfected; as a variety of leaves, seedpods, roots, fruit, and a myriad of flowers are studied.

Summer Workshops:

4 Tuesdays, July 1, 8, 22, 29
Hours: 9am - 2pm
Fee: $250 for 4 sessions
Individual workshops: $75/each

July 1
Stems and leaves

July 8
More leaves and root systems

July 22
Flowers in perspective

July 29
More flowers

Fall Workshops:

Monday Sept. 22, 10-3:30
Drawing Trees with Dick Rauh
This one-day field sketching experience focuses on the rendering of trees, emphisizing immediate eye-to-hand type of rendering using technical pens or graphite. We will begin with a classroom discussion of tree architecture and then go outdoors. Bring lunch
Fee: $95

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SUMMER REGISTRATION FORM

Fall classes schedule is up, click here for details!