Botanical illustration - principles and techniques

Teachers: Malena Barretto and Paulo Ormindo

Workload: 18h

Registration period: January 22 to February 22, 2024

Period: February 27 and 29 and March 5, 7, 12 and 14, 2024

Days of the week: Tuesday and Thursday

Time: Morning from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. / Afternoon from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Location: Rua Pacheco Leão, 2040 - Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 22460-036 

Format: Face-to-face

No. of students: 20 students per class

Techniques: Graphite and Nankeen

Target audience: Students and professionals in the areas of Fine Arts, Design, Architecture, Landscaping, Biology, Forestry Engineering and related areas. Students wishing to have contact with Botanical Illustration using the graphite and ink technique. There are no prerequisites.

Registration form

Investment:

Amount: R$ 390.00 - 1x installment

In the event of withdrawal, the refund will be discounted by 10%.

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.

Objective:

Observation drawing of living plants using graphite and India ink. Techniques for drawing leaf shapes and veins, the arrangement of leaves on the stem, flowers and their verticils and the application of light and shadow.

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:

- No. HB, 2B and 4B pencils or 2 mm pencils with HB, 2B and 4B graphite.

- White TK plastic eraser.

- 1 Block of "Canson" Lay-out paper, plain white A3 size 120g/m2 or more

- 1 A3 tracing paper

- Compass

- Ruler

- Stylus

- A hand-held magnifying glass

- 1 Trident/Desigraph 0.1 fountain pen

- 1 bottle of India ink for pens