Field Sketching with Lara Call Gastinger

Field Sketching with Lara Call Gastinger

Saturday, April 26 – Sunday, April, 27

Field Sketching Brochure

Join botanical artist Lara Call Gastinger and Flower Camp Director Nancy Ross Hugo for two days of observing, sketching, and painting wildflowers, ferns, and trees at Flower Camp, near Howardsville, Virginia. The widely acclaimed illustrator of the Flora of Virginia, Lara will help you observe plants more carefully, render them more accurately, and record them more expressively. Participants will be focusing on phenomena unique to the fourth week of April and practicing techniques that help turn even a quick sketch into a valuable botanical record. Using mixed media, even non-artists can learn to create pages illustrating “the story of a day outdoors” at this workshop, and teachers will learn new ways to approach field studies. Rendering trees will be a new wrinkle for artists who have studied with Lara before.

Tuition of $325 includes three meals (lunch Saturday through brunch Sunday), one night’s lodging, instruction, and most materials. Participants wishing to arrive Friday night may do so for an additional $50, which includes light breakfast and a Friday evening sneak preview of Remarkable Trees of Virginia, Nancy’s forthcoming book.

Ten percent of each tuition will be donated to the Flora of Virginia Project.

To register, send a $50 deposit or full payment to Flower Camp, c/o Nancy R. Hugo,
Director, 11208 Gwathmey Church Road, Ashland, VA 23005. For more information,
visit http://www.flowercamp.org/ or contact Nancy Ross Hugo at nancy@flowercamp.org or
804-798-6364.