Botanical Illustration

Denver Botanic Gardens' Botanical Art and Illustration Certificate Program is designed to teach the skills necessary to portray plants accurately both for scientific purposes and for beautiful plant illustrations. The program is open for everybody, both for committed illustrator and enthusiastic amateur. The program can lead to a Certificate that is offered only a few locations worldwide. This Certificate Program was initiated and established in 1990 by Angela Overy.

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Artistic Box for Art, Stationary or Precious Items

(Button box, Clam Shell Box, Box for e.g., Stationary by David Ashley)

Over the coming weekend (October 21 - 23, 2011) we ore offering a Artistic Box making class with David Ashley, the renown calligrapher and bookmaker from Denver. You will learn to make a variety of sturdy and beautiful boxes, perfect for botanical note cards, stationary, pens and pencils or small precious objects. We will create a clamshell box, a hinged lid box and a box with a separate lid. They will be constructed of bookbinding board, covered with durable book cloth and lined with a variety of beautiful papers.

We do have 3 seats available, for on-line registration, please click here.