Event Details

This course will be offered virtually via Zoom. A Zoom link will be shared with all students at least one week prior to the course beginning. Each session includes time for a 15-minute break.

Supplies: There are recommended supplies for this course if you wish to draw alongside Rogério throughout the course. Please see Rogério’s free downloadable Graphite Guide, Section 3 starting on page 19, for more information about recommended supplies. Please note that the Garden is not providing any materials for this course. Students are responsible for supplying their own materials.

Rogério also has a YouTube video supplement to the Graphite Guide, which you can view prior to class if you wish by clicking here.

GES: BI, 6, elective*

*This class provides 6 hours of elective credit toward the Botanical Illustration Certificate Program. Students who are not enrolled in the certificate program may also register for this course.

This course takes place virtually over 2 Wednesdays from 5:30 – 8:45 pm:

• January 10
• January 17

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Rogério Lupo was born in São Paulo, Brazil, where he graduated as a biologist and studied classical art in the 1990s. Inspired by the traditional techniques of scientific illustration found in ancient and contemporary books, he sought to learn and research about the employment of several media like graphite, pen nib and ink, watercolors, acrylics, colored pencils, pastels and scratchboard. He has been working on commissions from the scientific community and teaching biological illustration since 1998. In 2019, he toured some states and cities in the USA, teaching a series of lectures and workshops on graphite and pen nib and ink applied to biological illustrations. Since 2021 he has been teaching numerous online courses and lectures for his personal program of classes or for institutions across the world. Among some of his awards, he won twice the first prize in the Margaret Mee National Contest of Botanical Illustrations (Brazil) in 2002 and 2003, and also twice the first prize in the Margaret Flockton Award for Excellence in Botanical Illustration (Australia), in 2010 and 2013. In this same contest, he won second prize in 2021, and the “highly commended” prize in 2006, 2010 and 2017.

You can learn more about and follow Rogério on social media:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rogeriolupo.bioarte/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RogerioLupoArteCiencia/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/rogeriolupo
• Website: https://rogeriolupo.blogspot.com/

Banner image credit: Dichorisandra conglomerata, Dichorisandra leonii and Dichorisandra subtilis, rendered in graphite by Rogério Lupo