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Dear Friends:
Welcome to another year filled with the promise of things to come. Here at the Academy we are planning a few new ventures that although too soon to tell all about, we encourage you to stay in touch so you won�t skip a beat and be able to participate whenever you can in our various escapades.
Another one of my students has recently graduated from the Botanical Art & Illustration Certificate Program, Ms. Susan Benjamin. Her final independent study presentation was just beautiful and a fine example of all the learning and hard work. We send our congratulations to her with our best wishes for her continued success.
This year will see several more students graduating and to those in the middle of their final thesis, let me encourage you to feel inspired by your terrific accomplishment. We look forward to seeing the fruits of your labor.
And speaking of fruits and inspiration, this Christmas I had the pleasure of nature adorning both my front and back yard with fruits in full bloom � and the color of red. Our yard was on fire to the delight of students and guests who stopped by to work and play. May these good wishes we send ignite your 2010 and set your hearts ablaze with unstoppable creativity.
God bless. OM
Drawing Palm Trees
 The enormous variety of palm trees makes them a great asset in the landscape and in that arena most of us have come to know about them. Palms, however, have many other valuable assets including the wealth they contribute to food, medicine, industry. From Palm Oil Plantations, to Dates, to rattan furniture, to coconut food and flavorings, Palms have an enormous impact on our lives. It has been said that palms represent the third most important plant family with respect to human use. A good reason to hold them in high esteem and find ways to portray their beauty.
Veitchia merrillii
 Known commonly as the "Christmas Palm" is an evergreen palm native to the small islands of the Philippines located north of Malaysia and Indonesia.
Christmas Palm has single swollen at the base grey trunk that is sectioned by old leaf scars. It is propagated to grow with multi stem trunks as in this photo where you see four stems. Its pinnate fronds emerge from the short light green crown shaft. Arching leaves are 5ft long with sharp-edged leaflets that are 2ft long. This moderately fast growing palm can get to about 20ft tall.
 It produces creamy flowers followed by green oval fruits that turn to bright red as they ripe. Hanging in clusters fruits look like Christmas ornaments, hence their common name Christmas Palm.
 This December the fruits on my three Christmas Palms began to turn bright red, just in time for the holidays. With all the festivities it took me till the 28th of December to take these pictures. Alas their color started to pale, but hopefully these pics will give you some idea of how pretty this tree is and how worthy of artistic representation.
 Unfortunately or fortunately, the fruit does not attract wildlife. On the University of Florida extension website we are advised that: "Adonidia merrillii (syn. Veitchia merrillii) �Seeds sometimes used as substitute for betelnut." Note that Adonidia is no longer used for the genus and has been reclassified as Veitchia.
The Academy of Botanical Art's course on "Palms for the Botanical Artist" will help you explore palms and provide ideas for artwork that you may find ways to exhibit. The International Palm Society (the largest society of palm enthusiasts in the world), and the Palm & Cycad Societies of Florida, Inc., The Guild of Natural Science (GNSI), the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA) and the Florida Society of Botanical Art (FSBA) to name a few often offer illustration opportunities and exhibitions which you may want to become aware of.
Although the Academy of Botanical Art for Local and Distance Learning is not an official part of these organizations or their exhibitions, other than being a member, we are a strong advocate of their fine work. In accordance with our belief in helping botanical artists learn as much as they can about this topic, we recommend Palms for Botanical Artists by Botanist, John Beckner as a useful tool to those who wish to develop their understanding of palms. Mr. Beckner has prepared this course for the Academy. The ideas discussed in this course will certainly be of help to those who want to learn more about palms as well as those who may want to participate in future exhibitions.
Good luck. OM
Art & Photos by O.M. Braida
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ACADEMY @ Kentucky
Mark your calendars
Botanical Art Exhibit
Nature,
Naturally!
June 9-19, 2010
Artist Reception
Date to be announced
Academy @ Kentucky Arboretum
Botanical Art Workshop
June 14-17, 2010
9am to 4pm
INTRODUCING
FINE ARTIST RON SANDERS, PAA
THE ACADEMY'S NEWEST CERTIFIED ACADEMY INSTRUCTOR
The Academy has recently appointed renowned artist, Ron Sanders, as a Certified Academy Instructor. Ron Sanders is an extremely talented artist and the Academy of Botanical Art is proud to have him as part of their education team.
Ron is a Signature Member of the Paint America Association and Associate Member of the Oil Painters of America. With his inclusion in numerous national juried exhibitions and ever increasing Best of Show Awards, this dedicated artist houses his beautiful work in both private and public collections throughout the United States, including the Indiana State Museum Collection. Recent awards include First Place in the 2009 Richeson 75: Portrait/Figure competition and the Most Innovative Painting Award at the National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society “Best of America 2008” exhibition.
Ron integrates design, draftsmanship, and layered painting techniques of his classical training with the color, texture and edges inspired by impressionism. Ron has a developed and thorough understanding of color theory and paint application which explains his advanced skill in expressing temperature and edge shifts that occur in natural light. He is author of the book Color Mixing/Color Matching: How to mix clean bright colors and beautiful neutrals.
In an effort for the Academy to offer students advanced techniques in painting that will assist in creating authentic habitats in combination with their botanicals, the Academy is delighted to offer this fall:
Ron's experience in historical painting and his vast knowledge of color theory and application will help guide not only botanical artists but nature artists and plein air artists to a higher level of expertise.
In conjunction with the Marie Selby Botanical Garden, the Academy will be offering a Certificate in Advance Studies to those individuals who complete the four course program and submit a "Senior Thesis" painting for review.
It is an honor to have Ron Sanders on our staff and we look forward to some very beautiful work coming out of this program.
To learn more about Ron and his work, visit:
www.sanders-studios.com
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Now Available for Anyone
Interested in Endangered Species,
Bromeliads or Palms
Endangered Species for Botanical Artists
This wonderful course is available to anyone interested in the study of endangered species.
Academy Students earn elective credits for taking this course and completing the enclosed exam. A wealth of information that all will find extremely interesting.
Academy Electives: 15
by John Beckner, Botanist
$150.00 Non Certificate Student ~ $275 Certificate Students
Bromeliads for Botanical Artists
The structure of bromeliad plants and their flowers
with suggestions for ways to illustrate and
better understand these exciting plants.
Academy Electives: 5
by John Beckner, Botanist
$50.00 Non Certificate Student ~ $175 Certificate Students
Palms for the Botanical Artist
This publication is just the tip of an iceberg.
Palms are plants inclined to large dimensions.
They are very numerous and more varied than you first imagine. This text is for the person interested in illustrating them in various ways;
artistic or scientific and as a motif for crafts. But nearly all of it will be useful to plant lovers, tropical nature fans, gardeners and other people.
Academy Electives: 5
by John Beckner, Botanist
$50.00 Non Certificate Student ~ $175 Certificate Students
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ABA Instruction & Course Paks
The Academy of Botanical Art's flexible program allows for distance learners to tailor a schedule of botanical art training to their needs that includes phone tutored lessons, classes with the Ringling College of Art and Design, the Marie Selby Botanical Garden, and Academy workshops now offered in several locations. Distance learners take advantage of classes offered in their hometown as part of their study program. There is hardly an excuse left not to join the Academy's growing school.
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Soul Biz
"The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn."
Hartley Coleridge
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"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on,
with all the wisdom that
experience can instill in us."
Hal Borland
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"Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past."
Henry Ward Beecher
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"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day."
Edith Lovejoy Pierce
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"A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year."
Edgar Guest
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"The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective."
G.K. Chesterton
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Art Classes & Workshops
You can now combine
Distance Learning with Class Time
at any of our locations!!!
Private Classes with O.M.Braida
Studio 20 Resumes October 2009
Time:
All Private Studio Classes
are from 10:30am to 3:30pm
Location:
2068 Sunnyside Lane, Sarasota, FL, 34239.
Just off 41 in the Southgate area two blocks north of Webber and the Mall.
Dates:
2010
January 21, 22, 28
February 11, 12, 18, 19, 25
March 11, 12, 18, 25, 26
April 8, 15, 16, 29
May 13, 14, 20, 21, 27
Tuition:
4 classes/20 hours: $450
Individual class: $125
Refreshments provided, but you may want to bring your own lunch.
Credit Cards Accepted!
Register Here
Or contact olivia@omartdesigns.com
Or Call 941-953-9999 for more information
PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE @ ACADEMY
Program Objective: Students will learn
In Session One:
- Class One: Basics
- Class Two: Indoor Lighting of Plants Class Three: Plant Macro Photography
In Session Two:
- Class Four: Nature Photography I
- Class Five: Nature Photography II
- Class Six: Critique & Photoshop Demo
TAKE ONE OR BOTH!
Time:
10:30am to 3:30pm
Location:
2068 Sunnyside Lane, Sarasota, FL, 34239.
Just off 41 in the Southgate area two blocks north of Webber and the Mall.
2010 Dates:
Part I: January 25, 26, 27
Part II: February 8, 9, 10
Tuition:
$375 FOR ONE
$595 FOR BOTH
Please bring your lunch.
Credit Cards Accepted!
Register Here
Or contact olivia@omartdesigns.com
Or Call 941-953-9999 for more information
Susan Coffey is a fine artist and photographer who has been involved in the arts for more than thirty years. Her studio creates fine art Gicl�e prints using state of the art equipment from Epson. Learn more about Susan from her website: www.susancoffeydesigns.com.
Academy of Botanical Art sm @
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
To Register, visit www.selby.org
Or Call Marilynn Shelley 941-366-5731 x 239
2009/2010 Academy
@ Selby Schedule
Botanical Drawing & Watercolor
Noon to 5pm
Dates:
Three Day Workshops
$350 Members/$375 Non Members
2010
January 18, 19, 20
February 15, 16, 17
March 22, 23, 24
April 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 (5-Day Workshop)
May 17, 18, 19
Advanced Studies in Nature Painting
Habitat Painting for Nature Artists
& Botanical Painters
Academy of Botanical Art and the Marie Shelby Botanical Garden are proud to announce their newest program
Open to anyone who meets one of the following criteria:
- Inter to Adv Watercolorists
- Nature Artists
- Certified Botanical Artists
- Inter to Adv Flower Painters
- Plein Air Painters
This program offers a Certificate in Advanced Nature Studies To students who complete all four courses and submit a "Senior Thesis"
- Participants can take one or all of the following courses.
- Everyone needs to take Course #1
- Only Certificate students must take all four courses
- Certificate students submit a "Senior Thesis" to receive their Certificate.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVE:
The objective of Advanced Studies in Nature Painting is to equip artists with the tools to incorporate the natural habitats that complement their paintings. Students will learn to think differently about art and one's artistic goals and meet the challenges of the ever changing effects of natural light. Students will be instructed in fundamental abstract principles of art and design which will be reinforced by a range of artistic schools and movements.
Course #1
Dates for 2010 to be announced.
10am-3:30pm PREREQUISTE
$350 Members/$375 Non-Members
$25.00 Book Fee
MIXING TEMPERATURE BIASED COLOR
Learning to see and mix temperature biased color for the depiction of natural sunlight and skylight on form. This first course will be held at Studio 20. Payment for this course is made to the Academy of Botanical Art. Call for information 941-953-9999. Courses #2, #3, #4 are held at Selby Gardens. Please bring lunch.
Course #2
January 9, 16, 23
10am to 3:30pm
$350 Members/$375 Non-Members
$19.00 Fee to Academy for Handout Materials
PLEIN AIR FIELD STUDIES
Gathering reference material for painted backgrounds through the use of plein air color/value sketches combined with photographic resources. Please bring lunch.
Course #3
February 13, 20, March 6
10am to 3:30pm
$350 Members/$375 Non-Members
$19.00 Fee to Academy for Handout Materials
DESIGNING FOR DEPTH & FOCUS
Compositional tools for building greater depth, form and pattern into your paintings
Please bring lunch.
Course #4
April 10, April 24, May 8
10am to 3:30pm
$350 Members/$375 Non-Members
$19.00 Fee to Academy for Handout Materials
$100 Fee to Academy for Graduates Review, Grade & Certificate
BOTANICALS IN BACKGROUNDS
"The Senior Thesis" of the Advanced Studies in Nature Painting series. Please bring lunch.
To learn more about your instructor, visit: www.sanders-studio.com
TO REGISTER FOR CLASSES CALL
MARILYNN SHELLEY @ 941-366-5731 X 239
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS PROGRAM CALL
OLIVIA @ 941-953-9999
Academy @ Kentucky
with Leslie Ramsey
Botanical Art Workshops
Graphite - Watercolor - Pen & Ink
Beginners to Advanced
With
Leslie Ramsey
Certified Botanical Artist
Certified Academy Instructor
THURSDAYS
to June
Day & Evening Classes
Day: 10am to 1 pm $200 (individual class $75)
Evening: 5:30pm - 8:30pm $200 (individual class $75)
Location
4464 Stuart Hall Boulevard #33102
Lexington, KY 40509
Art supplies and books not included.
For recent Arboretum/Kentucky University
Workshop attendees who completed Drawing I and Watercolor I, pursue the next level book
Drawing II and Watercolor II.
For Books and Course Paks and
Art Supplies visit...
www.botanicalartsupplies.com
To Register, call Leslie Ramsey:
606-434-4280
Specials
Events
Tours to Costa Rica
With Mindy Lighthipe
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Academy Exhibit
Nature, Naturally!!
U of Kentucky Arboretum
June 9-19, 2010
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Academy Workshop @
U of Kentucky Arboretum
4 Day Workshop
June 14 - 17 2010
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Academy Workshop @
U of Kentucky Arboretum
4 Day Workshop
August 23 - 26, 2010
Exhibits Museums
South Florida Museum
201 10th Street West
Bradenton, Florida 34205
(941) 746-4131
http://www.southfloridamuseum.org/
John and Mable Ringling Museum
5401 Bay Shore Road,
Sarasota Florida 34243
(941) 359-5700
http://www.ringling.org/
Museum of Fine Arts
255 Beach Drive NE, St.
Petersburg, FL 33701
(727) 896-2667
http://www.fine-arts.org/
Salvador Dali Museum
1000 Third Street South
St. Petersburg, Florida 33701-4901
(727) 823-3767
http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org/home.html
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3890
(412) 268-2434
http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20005-3970
(202) 783-5000
1-800-222-7270
http://www.nmwa.org/
Smithsonian Institute
10th Street and Constitution Ave., NW in Washington, D.C. 20560
(202) 633-1000
http://www.si.edu/
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10028
(212) 535-7710
http://www.metmuseum.org/
American Museum of Natural History
79th Street @ Central Park West
New York, New York
(212) 769-5100
http://www.amnh.org/
American Museum of Natural History
79th Street @ Central Park West
New York, New York
(212) 769-5100
http://www.amnh.org/
Modern Museum of Art
11 West 53 Street,
New York, NY 10019-5497
(212) 708-9400
http://www.moma.org/
Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Pkwy
Brooklyn, NY 11238
(718) 638-5000
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/
High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30309
(404) 733-HIGH
Receptionist: 404-733-4400
http://www.high.org/
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois, 60603-6404
(312) 443-3600
http://www.artic.edu/aic/
Bruce Museum One Museum Drive
Greenwich, CT 06830
203-869-0376
http://www.brucemuseum.org/
Harvard University Museum of Natural History
Home of the famous Glass Flower Sculptures
by Leopold Blaschka (1822-1895)
and his son Rudolf (1857-1939)
22 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-2365
http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/
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