Notícias
Botanical Illustration in Watercolor - summer course
From November 20, 2023 to January 4, 2024, the National School of Tropical Botany (ENBT) at the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden will be open for registration for the Botanical Illustration in Watercolor course. The classes will be held in person and taught by professors Malena Barretto and Paulo Ormindo, specialists in Botanical Illustration from Kew Gardens in London. There will be two classes (morning and afternoon), with lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 9 am to 12 pm and 2 pm to 5 pm, during the month of January.
Objectives: The Botanical Illustration in Watercolor course aims to teach and improve the technique of drawing and painting in watercolor applied to botanical illustration. It is a concentrated summer course that caters for people interested in learning the methods of botanical watercolor during the vacation season.
Syllabus: Three different themes of branches with leaves and flowers. Graphite drawing and watercolor painting, mixing colors and highlighting details.
Teachers: Malena Barretto and Paulo Ormindo
Workload: 18 hours
Dates: January 9, 11, 16, 18, 23 and 25, 2024.
Days and times: Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. (morning class) and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. (afternoon class)
Investment: R$ 460.00
Number of places: 20 students per class
Payment account:
Banco do Brasil
Branch: 2234-9
Current account: 32.075-7
Company name: Fundação de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento da Computação Científica
CNPJ: 06.220.430/0001-03.
Teachers' brief curricula vitae
Malena Barretto is an artist who began her career as a scientific illustrator at the UFRJ National Museum in 1976 and later joined the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden Research Institute (JBRJ), where she remained until 1988. In 1989 she received the first Margaret Mee Botanical Foundation Artistic Scholarship to specialize in botanical illustration at the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, England. She has participated in group exhibitions, the most recent being "Mata Atlântica Ciência e Arte" at the Museu do Meio Ambiente, Botanical Garden (2015), "Arte Botanica nel Terzo Millenio" at the Museo della Grafica, Pallazo Lafranchi, Pisa (2013). At the Shirley Sherwood gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens of kew, England, he took part in the exhibitions "Old and New South American Botanical Art" (2010) and "Kew Artists exhibition" (2011). During the France-Brazil year in 2005, she held a solo exhibition of her work at the Parc Floral gallery in Vincennes, Paris. In 1999 she presented watercolors of rare bromeliads in partnership with paintings of bromeliads by Margaret Mee in the exhibition "Masters of Boavista" at the Centro Cultural dos Correios, Rio de Janeiro. Her work can be seen in publications such as "Árvores notáveis, 200 anos do Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro" (2008), "Malena Barretto, aquarelas e desenhos da Flora Brasileira" (2005), "Passion for Plants" (2001), "Segredos e Virtudes das Plantas Medicinais" (1999), "Jardim de Aclimação" (1993) and "Plantas das Caatingas" (1989). She has been a guest lecturer at the JBRJ since 2001.
Paulo Ormindo has a degree in Printmaking from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1992), specializing in Botanical Illustration from the Margaret Mee Botanical Foundation at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - England (1995/1996), and a Master's degree in Art Science from the Fluminense Federal University (2002). Professor at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Fine Arts course (degree) at the Institute of Human and Social Sciences. He has experience in the areas of Art and Botany, with an emphasis on Scientific Drawing, working mainly on the following subjects: botany, illustration, art, watercolor, ink and the History of Botanical Art in Brazil. He has been a visiting professor at the JBRJ since 2001.
List of materials for watercolor courses
- HB, 2H and 2B pencils or 0.5 mm pencils with HB, 2H and 2B graphites.
- White TK plastic eraser
- A3 size white "canson" layout paper
- Compass and ruler
- Stylus
- Dish towel or melanin box
- A3 size folder for carrying and storing material (any make or model). Box of tissues or paper towels.
Watercolor paints in 5 ml tubes or tablets
- Suggested brands
- Winsor & Newton
- Cotmam (student) Artist's water color (professional)
- Schmincke
- Akademie (student) and Horadam (professional)
- Talen's
- Rembrandt (professional) Van Gogh (student)
Priority colors:
- French ultramarine
- Indigo blue
- Cadmium yellow
- Cadmium lemom
- Alizarin crimson or permanent magenta
- Cadmium red or scarlet lake
- Yellow ochre or Raw sienna
- Sepia
- Permanent rose
Optional:
- Cobalt blue, cerulean blue, Burnt sienna, Burnt umber, quinacridone magenta
Brushes
Suggested brands:
- Winsor & Newton series 7 - no 01, 03, 04 or 05
- Da Vinci - No 01, 03, 04 or 05
- Kolinsky Tigre 309 series - no 02, 03, 04 or 05
- Keramik 110 series - no 04 and 06
- Keramik 705 series - no 04, 06 and 08
Note: The best brushes are made of mink hair and should form a fine point when wet.
Paper
The best papers are acid-free cotton, with a smooth surface and a weight of 300g to 600g.
- Single sheets or in A3 or A4 blocks.
- Suggested brands
- Arches grain satiné (hot pressed)
- Moulin du Roy, grain satiné (hot pressed) or grain fin (cold pressed)
- Montval grain satiné (hot pressed) or grain fin (cold pressed)
- Fabriano A5, 50% cotton, grain fin (cold pressed)
- Fabriano artistic, grain satiné (hot pressed)
- Hahnemühle line grain satiné (hot pressed) or grain fin (cold pressed)
Suggested stores
Stationery store Botafogo - RJ
https://www.papelariabotafogo.com.br/
Brugger Art Materials - RJ
https://www.materiaisartisticos.com.br/
JLM - Jardim Largo do Machado - RJ
https://www.jlmpapelaria.com.br
https://www.companhiadopapel.com
Ken Bromley Art Supplies - UK
BARRETTO, Malena, Aquarelas e desenhos da flora brasileira. Rio de Janeiro: Imago Escritório de Arte, 2005.
BRITO, A.L.V. Toscano de, Orquídeas da Chapada Diamantina /A.L.V. Toscano de Brito e Phillip J. Cribb; ilustrações de Paulo Ormindo; fotografias de Calil Neto. – Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira, 2005.
CARNEIRO, Diana , Ilustração Botânica: princípios e métodos . Editora UFPR; 2011.
CHRISTABEL ,King, The Kew Book of Botanical Illustration, Search Press Limited , 2015.
MEE, Margaret. In search of Flowers of the Amazon Forests. Nonesuch Expeditions Ltd., 1988.
ORMINDO, Paulo (Org.) & BARRETTO, M. H. Árvores notáveis 200 anos do Jardim Botânico do Rio de janeiro. Rio de Janeiro: Andrea Jakobsson Estúdio, 2008.
PARRAMÓN, José M., El Gran libro de acuarela, Parramon ediciones, S.A., 1985.
SHERWOOD, Shirley. Contemporary Botanical Artists, The Shirley Sherwood collection, Weidenfeld & Nicolson in association whit the Royal Botanic Gardens, 1996.
SHERWOOD, Shirley, A Passion for Plants, Contemporary Botanical Masterworks from the Shirley Sherwood collection, Cassel & Co, 2001.
SHOWELL, Billy, Watercolour Flower portraits, Search Press Limited, 2006.
SHOWELL, Billy, Watercolour Fruit & Vegetables portraits, Search Press Limited,2009.
STEARN,William T.and Blunt, Wilfrid. The Art of Botanical Illustration. New edition, revised and enlarged Antique Collectors’Club in association with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1995.
STEVENS, Margaret , The Art of Botanical Painting in Association With The Society of Botanical Artists. Smithsonian, Harper Collins Publishers, 2005.
WEST, Keith. How to Draw Plants. The techniques of botanical illustration, The Herbert Press, 1983.