Month: October 2020

Botanical watercolor course – Vegetables

THE GEOMETRIES OF NATURE - VEGETABLES Curated by Simonetta Occhipinti Every Tuesday from 10am to 12:30pm or Thursday from 3pm to 5:30pm Tuesday: from September 24 to November 26 10-12.30 Thursday: from September 26th to November 28th from 3 to 5.30 pm Botanical watercolor is both an artistic and scientific technique, where plants, or parts of plants, are reproduced in their natural size and with all the details that make them easily identifiable: it is basically a portrait. The plant must be reproduced "from life": it will never be a "copy", but rather a composition linked to the taste of [...]

Botanical watercolor workshop – the magic of citrus

THE GEOMETRIES OF NATURE - THE MAGIC OF CITRUS Curated by Simonetta Occhipinti From Friday 24 to Sunday 26 January 2020 From 10am to 1pm and from 2pm to 5pm Citrus fruits have always attracted great interest in all eras for their unusual shapes, bright and warm colors and the magnificent scent of their flowers. From a pictorial point of view, their porous, glossy or patinated peel, often wrinkled, was and still is of great charm and at the same time it was a challenge for painters to work with, botanists and non-botanists. Botanical watercolor certainly makes for the best [...]