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Painting Plants that Paint: Dye Plants for Botanical Artists NEW

5 Wednesdays, August 1, 8, 15, 22, 9:30 am - 2 pm

Details:

Students choose among the many flowers or plants for one that produces dye in their favorite color and learn how that dye is made. Students may choose to prepare a composition and paint or draw it in their chosen medium or make a small notebook contains samples of dyed materials and small drawings or paintings of plants. Guest speaker Judith Towers discusses craft dyes and dyeing, and students learn to prepare a solar dye bath. Instructors Celeste Johnston and Hazel Buys, both botanical and fiber artists, lead the class. A list of materials is sent after registration. Lunch is on your own each day.

$194 / $150 member

5 sessions = 20 hrs. GES: BI, 20, elective