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The Chicago Botanic Garden is a world-renowned living museum and conservation science center that offers multiple unique nature courses spread throughout 26 gardens and four natural areas on 385 acres.
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Winter Wonders in Colored Pencil: Online
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Discover the beauty of winter botanicals as you learn to capture their intricate details and surprising hues in this online course from the Chicago Botanic Garden. Using colored pencils, create stunning drawings of evergreens, pinecones, seedpods, and more from the comfort of your own home. Prior botanical drawing experience is recommended.
Yoga Unlimited Semester Pass: Online
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Discover the freedom of practicing yoga from anywhere with the Chicago Botanic Garden's virtual yoga classes. Gain unlimited access to a variety of online sessions and experience the benefits of yoga at your own pace.
Textures and Patterns in Nature
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Immerse yourself in the captivating world of nature's textures and patterns. Discover how to artistically capture organic forms and design elements through the use of light, composition, and background. Enhance your photography skills with this intermediate-level class at the esteemed Chicago Botanic Garden.
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Colored Pencil Drawing Course
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Start with the fundamentals, then delve into working with dry and wet media of colored pencil. Develop your drawing skills through color exploration of value, intensity, and temperature. Learn dry applications, layering, washes, and color-mixing techniques. Work from live specimens. Demonstrations and individual instruction will be given. A supply list will be sent.
Visual Poetry (Online)
Photographic vision requires an aptitude for discovering beauty in what others see but ignore. Photographers create new work by making new visual decisions as they engage with the world. Like poetry, this encourages a viewer's mind to wander, imagine, and create prehistory or post-history for the images. This extensive course is designed for advanced photographers. This class will be taught online via Cisco Webex. All registrations must be submitted...
Nature & Landscape Portfolio A
Explore the design techniques of today’s best nature and landscape photographers. Practice techniques with weekly exercises based on class lessons. Use these design techniques to create your own professional portfolio worthy of exhibition. This course is designed for intermediate photographers. Digital SLR or mirrorless cameras are mandatory. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days before...
Photoshop 2
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
This advanced class will further your knowledge of selections and layers, allowing for photo enhancement and manipulation. Projects include black-and-white with color accents, old photo restoration, and abstract art creation. Requirements for the course are a laptop computer with a current version of Adobe Photoshop installed and a digital camera. Prerequisite: Photoshop 1 or approval of instructor. Note This class will be...
Photoshop 1: Online
Make your images even better with Adobe Photoshop Elements—a user-friendly photo editor that has the same concepts as the full version of Photoshop. Apply selection tools, layers, and smart brushes. A laptop computer with Adobe Photoshop Elements or Adobe Photoshop CS5 installed and a digital camera are required. This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class starts....
Women in Landscape Photography: Online
Study the work of some of the great female landscape photographers. Each week, you will review and discuss photographers, learn about their paths toward creative endeavor, and study their images. By closely reviewing their subject choice and the compositional tools they used to create images, we will develop a sense of their artistic intent and use that knowledge to guide our aesthetic approach. The course will culminate with an in-class portfolio...
Creating Textures in Watercolor
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Creating the illusion of rough and smooth textures in watercolors is accomplished by applying different tools and techniques. Using dry techniques complements the liquidity of this medium, to develop a strong array of textures that will make your paintings come alive. Prerequisites: Watercolor Experience.
Photography in the Era of Bauhaus: Online
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
The Bauhaus School was one of the most influential art and design schools in the twentieth century. Founded in 1919 in Weimar, it represented the zeitgeist of a modernizing and changing society in Germany between the wars. In this class you will draw inspiration by studying the Bauhaus aesthetics and artists like László Moholy-Nagy who continued his work at the New Bauhaus in Chicago. Class includes assignments, image reviews, and developing...
Photography: Visual Poetry: Online
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Photographic vision requires an aptitude for discovering beauty in what others see but ignore. Photographers create new work by making new visual decisions as they engage with the world. Like poetry, this encourages a viewer's mind to wander, imagine, and create a prehistory or post-history for the images. Advanced level. This class will be taught online. Registered students will receive login instructions one day in advance.
Drawing with Colored Pencil Mini Session
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
The Chicago Botanic Garden’s online botanical art class is a virtual experience you can take anywhere! Learn to create glowing colored pencil drawings! You will learn the “heightened drawing” technique as you draw on toned paper, adding highlights to achieve luminous, vivid color. Draw textures in natural objects and create vibrant landscapes as you learn techniques for clouds, water, and foliage. Beginners and experienced students are welcome....
Gardening Techniques: Session C
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Learn tips and techniques used by professional gardeners through a combination of lecture and hands-on activities. Acquire solid gardening skills, learn a variety of techniques, and determine best management practices in the field of horticulture. Gain applicable skills in plant selection, spring assessment and planning, spring perennials and annuals, soil preparation, pruning shrubs and hedges, and control of spring weeds. Dress for the weather. ...
Introduction to Weaving
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
The Chicago Botanic Garden’s online weaving class is a virtual experience you can take anywhere! Learn to weave, exploring traditional tapestry approaches such as interlocking, inlay, and shape-building alongside basket weave, twill, soumak, pile, rya, and twining techniques. Don't have a frame loom? No problem. Your instructor will walk everyone through making your own on the first day of class out of cardboard. Through guided discussion and presentations,...
Pen and Ink 1
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Examine pen-and-ink drawing with the study of natural botanical forms and shapes. You will acquire valuable techniques including stipple, cross-hatching, contour-line, and combinations. Achieve successful execution of black-and-white elements to create value, tone, and texture such as leaf venation, stem texture, and shading. You will create positive and negative tones to establish depth and dimension. A supply list will be sent Prerequisite:...
Painting with Gouache: Online
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
The Chicago Botanic Garden’s online botanical art class is a virtual experience you can take anywhere! Gouache is a kind of opaque watercolor that has a flat, graphic quality that gives it a modern look. Compared to watercolor, it kicks the color intensity up a notch. Henri Matisse used gouache to create his brightly colored papercut art: first painting the paper, then cutting out shapes. In this class, you will use gouache to create stylized...
Marriage of the Written and Painted Word
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
By combining both inspirational or personal words with a strong painted image, your voice is amplified. Working with poetic words coupled with your watercolor painting, you will learn how to design a piece for maximum impact. Discover how to create an artwork with a cherished inspirational phrase, striking message, or personal words effectively composed within the painting. What you learn from the class can also be applied to your own...
Photography: Floral Art Workshop
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Add drama to your floral photography, turning each photograph into a piece of art using emotion, experimentation, and added objects. Explore color and camera techniques to create a contemporary and unique twist to your photographs. Class time will be spent in group sessions with lectures, sharing artists’ work that will inspire, reviewing participant’s work, and coaching on individual creativity. Open to all skill levels. Digital SLRs,...
Fine Art Photography Portfolio D: Online
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
Take a journey through Latin American photography from the 19th century to the present day and explore the historical context of this vibrant art movement. Discover the influential work, themes, and techniques of artists Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Nacho Lopez, and Graciela Iturbide from Mexico; Sebastian Salgado from Brazil; Alberto Korda from Cuba; and Sara Facio, Horacio Cóppola, and Pedro Raota from Argentina. Class includes assignments, image reviews,...
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