Annual ritual last Tuesday: I shot students with their final projects for the semester in my friend Marcia’s Art of Horticulture class. View this year’s gallery or galleries from previous years.
Art of Horticulture projects
Category: Art
Garden art, PhotoShopped images, etc.
Garden Blogger Bloom Day Scan 2010 Calendar (Beta)
You all asked for it …
Prompted by the many encouraging comments and emails I’ve gotten, I pulled together a calendar of 20 of my favorite bloom day scans I’ve made through the years, more or less matching them to the month they were made. It’s available via my zazzle store.
One caveat: I haven’t yet held the product in my hands, and probably won’t for a few days. So I can’t vouch for the quality and value. I’ve only printed a couple of the images I’ve used in the calendar before, and they looked great. But I expect that with so many scans involved that I might want to touch a few up after I see them in print. Things often look different in hard copy than they do on the screen.
I haven’t fully explored the zazzle site. But I’m planning to use some of these scans for notecards and other products as well. And if I have time, I’ll do a second calendar of photographs. I’ll keep you posted, and once I’m happy with the results I’ll add a permanent link to what’s available over in the right column.
Thanks for your support.
Craig @ Ellis Hollow
New online botanical illustration course: Working with watercolor
[If you read my ‘full disclosure’ statement in the right column, you’ll note that I work in the Department of Horticulture at Cornell University. And Marcia is an old friend as well as a coworker.]
Botanical Illustration II: Working with watercolor is a new online course to be taught starting January 25 by Marcia Eames-Sheavly Senior Extension Associate in the Department of Horticulture, Cornell University.
This is the second online botanical illustration course developed by Eames-Sheavly, a Kaplan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellow. It joins Botanical Illustration I: Basic Drawing Techniques in the growing stable of distance learning courses offered by the Department of Horticulture, which also includes online courses in organic gardening and plant propagation.
Both of the six-week botanical illustration courses will be offered this winter. Cost is $500 and enrollment is limited to 20 students.
“The new watercolor course is designed to encourage your discovery of plants as the subject of art and to express your interest in the plant world by introducing color to your botanical illustration repertoire,†says Eames-Sheavly.
The majority of her previous participants were new to online courses, she adds. But most quickly got the hang of sharing ideas with fellow participants in the forum and interacting with the instructor. “It’s common for students to be nervous about taking an online course at first. But they’re well-supported and feeling confident by the end.â€
For more information, visit the Department of Horticulture’s Distance Learning site.
The New York Beginning Farmer Project also offers Beginning Farmer 101 online courses. The next one, Markets and Profits: Making Money Selling What You Grow, starts Jan. 8.
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day scan
Hat tip to Carol at May Dreams Garden for hosting. More bloom day scans here. It’s easy. Give it a try. Directions here. At least we still have Felder’s three keys to designing with form, ’roundy, spiky, frilly.’
Colors are somber around here in November. Guess that’s why I rushed the season on poinsettias.
Picture This Photo Contest – End of the Line
The them for this month’s Picture This Photo Contest over at Gardening Gone Wild is End of the Line. Here’s my entry (click for larger view):
Volunteer ivy growing on concrete retaining wall outside the Campus Store, Cornell University.
Technically, not the best shot I’ve ever made. But I’ve probably had more comments about this picture than any other I’ve taken.