Hello helebores ❤️
Term 3 bookings are now open for intermediate / advanced botanical art classes with John Pastoriza Pinol on Wednesday evenings online.
Please call the Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens office on 9650 6398 or email [email protected] to secure your place.
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This painting was made possible by the fabulous tuition of David Reynolds at Friends of Royal Botanical Gardens Melbourne. His classes are highly recommended! Term dates are 17th July to 4th September 2023.
To book your place contact the Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne on 9650 6398 or email:
[email protected]
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Enjoy your down time with family & friends. ❤️❤️❤️
Winter is the time to paint❣️
Term 3 bookings are now open for intermediate botanical art classes with David Reynolds.
Monday afternoons - Face to Face
Tuesday evenings - Online
Saturday mornings - Online
Please call the Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens office on 9650 6398 or email [email protected] to secure your place.
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Liquidambar styraciflua (Sweet gum)
These deciduous trees produce some of the most spectacular autumn foliage known. The genus name literally means liquid amber, and refers to the resin exuded by the winter buds. Known as storax, the resin is used in perfumery and cosmetics.
Sweetgum fruit is a collection of small 2-celled capsules that from a spikey ball. Inside each capsule are one or two small winged seeds. The capsules also contain a granular substance that helps seed dispersal.
These photos show the beginning of the process to illustrate the seed pods. After numerous sketches, the drawing was transferred to hot pressed (smooth) water-colour paper and masking fluid was applied by pen and nib. Next, a tea wash of blue was applied to map out the shadows and apertures of the seed pods. The crazy, vivid painting is a quick “map” to highlight the beaks and caves (apertures). After a polychromatic wash to denote shadows, highlights and local colour, several washes of a “chestnut” blend of pigments were applied. It’s still early days, and there are many washes and refinements ahead….
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Jelli printing workshop on canvas bags and cushions.
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One of Australia’s most prestigious botanical art exhibitions is now open❣️
‘The Art of Botanical Illustration’ is presented by Melbourne Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, and is being held at the gardens’ Domain House, Dallas Brooks Drive, Melbourne.
Don’t miss your chance to see some fabulous artwork. Open until 12 October.
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Native terrestrial orchid "Pterostylis nutans" update - the tiny terrestrial orchid has fully opened and is ready to be pollinated. Shame it‘s in a high rise apartment and there are no pollinators to be seen! 🥲
Pterostylis nutans, also called “nodding green hood”, is a distinctive species because of its drooping flower in which the dorsal (or top) sepal and the petals combine to form a hood around the central column (the fused stamens, style and stigma). The single flower occurs on a stem arising from a rosette of leaves and is 25 cm high.
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