Botanical Watercolor

Teachers: Malena Barretto and Paulo Ormindo

Workload: 24 hours

Registration period: April 4 to May 2, 2024

Period: May 4, 11, 18, 25, and June 8, 15, 22 and 29, 2024

Day of the week: Saturday

Time: 9 a.m. to 12 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: Watercolor

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

Investment:

Value: R$ 480,00

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.

NOTE: In the event of withdrawal, 10% of the amount invested will be deducted.

Objectives: The course aims to teach the procedures of the watercolor painting technique for representing botanical species. The course is held on Saturdays and caters for those who are not available during the week.

Syllabus: Basic themes of botanical illustration, leaves, branches, fruit and flowers. Principles of the watercolor technique with watercolors and color mixing. Studies for painting and composing a botanical board.

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
- TK white 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)

Colors:

Priority:
- 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 300gr to 600gr.
- Single sheets or in A3 or A4 blocks.
Suggested brands
- Arches satin-finish grain (hot pressed)
- Moulin du Roy, satin-finish grain (hot pressed) or fine grain (cold pressed)
- Montval satin grain (hot pressed) or fine grain (cold pressed)
- Fabriano A5, 50% cotton, fine grain (cold pressed)
- Fabriano artístico, satin-finish grain (hot pressed)
- Linha Hahnemühle satin grain (hot pressed) or fine grain (cold pressed)

Supporting bibliography:

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.