Join us as we fill our sketchbooks with observations of the natural world surrounding us! Each workshop, we’ll meet via Zoom with artist and teacher Alex Boersma and learn how to draw natural objects we’ve collected throughout the week. We’ll improve our observational drawing skills while exploring new mediums: first graphite, then pen and ink, and finally watercolor, each session building on what we’ve learned the week before.
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Supply list will be emailed once you are registered for the class. No experience necessary. Recommended for both adults and children age 12 and up.
Classes will meet Tuesday evening from 6pm - 8pm ET (the final workshop will go until 9pm ET). You may attend a single workshop or all three workshops, however the skills we learn in each workshop will build on one another, so we recommend signing up for all three!
Note: Please be sure you have acquired the necessary materials ahead of the workshop.
Tuesday, March 2nd, 6pm - 8pm ET - Week One: Drawing in Graphite
Tuesday, March 9th, , 6pm - 8pm ET - Week Two: Pen and Ink Techniques
Tuesday, March 16th, , 6pm - 9pm ET - Week Three: Watercolor Painting
Alex Boersma is a freelance scientific illustrator & designer from Toronto, Ontario. Her focus is on using visual storytelling to engage the public in scientific ideas and the natural world. After studying geology and studio art at Vassar College in New York, Alex worked at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, conducting research on whale evolution in the Pyenson Lab, Paleobiology department. Articles on her research have appeared in multiple news outlets, including the New York Times, BBC News, Nature, and the Washington Post. She completed a Master’s certificate in Science Illustration at CSU Monterey Bay. She works in a variety of mediums, both traditional and digital, and has a particular love of printmaking and incorporating unconventional mediums in science illustration.
For examples of Alex’s work, please visit her website www.alexboersma.com and follow on Instagram at @alexboersma_art and Twitter at @alexboersma_art.