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Ann Swan: Working In and Out of the Box! *SOLD OUT*

March 22, 9:00 AM-2:30 PM
Denver Botanic Gardens

Ann Swan: Working In and Out of the Box!
Fine details and bold composition will move your colored pencil work to a new level! Colored pencil impresario Ann Swan begins with expert instruction and demonstrations on the fine points of botanical illustration. Veins, hairs, stamens, tendrils, thorns, water droplets and more come into focus as you refine techniques to portray the fine details that can take your illustrations from satisfactory to stunning. Ann’s relaxed style and individual guidance will help you master new skills. Move on to composition and learn about traditional and contemporary botanical styles. See how Ann interprets elements of arrangement to push the boundaries in her work. Bring it all together to compose a botanical piece that will showcase all you’ve learned. Fee: $308 member, $371 non-member. Prerequisite: Pencil I, Color Layering for Colored Pencil, Colored Pencil I

-Mon. – Fri., March 22 – 26, 9 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. (25 hr)
Instructor: Ann Swan, U.K.

Ann Swan is one of the U.K.‘s leading contemporary botanical artists working in colored pencil. Her work has been shown at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation and at the Smithsonian with the Shirley Sherwood Collection, which has recently toured the world. She has been awarded four Royal Horticultural Society Gold Medals and has recently been appointed to the Royal Horticultural Society’s Picture Committee. Her work now features on six new ranges of china produced by Jersey Pottery in the U.K. She is an accomplished teacher and teaches around the world, most recently in New Zealand, Italy and Spain, and for the Royal Horticultural Society at their flagship gardens at Wisley. Her current project is a series of Heirloom Bulbs for the Southern Bulb Company in Texas. Ann has just completed a book about her Colored Pencil techniques: ‘Botanical Painting with Coloured Pencils’ to be published both in the U.K. and USA in April 2010.