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Build your skills in Lightroom and make images that realize your vision. Learn to fine-tune the look of your images with global and local adjustments. Then learn to print your own images on premium photographic and fine art papers. Use the capabilities of Lightroom to produce your own photobook to showcase your images. A personal laptop with Lightroom Classic CC installed is required. Prerequisite: Lightroom 1 or consent of instructor. The...
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Dive deeper into the world of scents in this workshop where you will learn perfume structures, plant origins, and their historical context. You will blend two unique perfumes during our time together, improving your skills and olfactory recognition as we analyze each blend. Fee includes two .25 ounce vials of custom natural perfume to take home. No preliminary perfuming experience is necessary.
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 738 Thatcher Ave, River Forest, IL
While morning light offers dramatic photo opportunities, winter light combined with snow and shadow presents particular photographic challenges. Learn how to compose and meter for these unique light levels to capture inspiring images on both land and water. A map will be sent with your registration.
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Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Continue to learn various watercolor techniques and color theory while exploring different ways to combine light, color, and textures in watercolor painting. Prerequisite: Beginning Watercolor or similar experience. A supply list will be sent.
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Rd, Chicago, IL
Discover the terminology that botanists use to identify flowering plants (angiosperms). To understand the technical descriptions often used in plant identification guides and keys, a general knowledge of the descriptive terms used is helpful. We will discuss the botanical vocabulary used to describe flowering plants from roots to fruits and everything in between. We will also look at live material in the classroom and work through plant keys at the...
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Explore sumi-e, the ancient art of Asian ink painting. Learn the history of this art form and how to use the special painting tools. Paint subjects from nature using simple brush strokes. The goal of the sumi-e painter is to use the brush with vitality and restraint. Individual instruction for students at all levels. No previous painting experience needed. A supply list will be sent.
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Tai chi from the Yang style is a beautiful, slow-moving meditation in motion. You can take this class many times to build a strong foundation while you practice and learn these beginner-level stances. No previous tai chi experience is required. Class locations vary and will be held outdoors when weather permits. Please refer to the tai chi sign in the Visitor Center to determine your daily class location.
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
New research points to yoga as a helpful practice to boost immunity and decrease inflammation. Unleash your body’s innate regenerative potential as you explore a carefully designed series of movements and conscious breath work known to relax and refresh. Appropriate for beginners and experienced students alike.
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
New! Gouache is an opaque watercolor medium traditionally used in botanical art. Learn how to use gouache to capture the textures found in spring bulbs from lush petals to textured roots. Students will work from live specimens. Some gouache materials will be supplied. Prerequisite: Watercolor I or previous experience. The School’s CEUs=10
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road Glencoe, Chicago, IL
Broaden your creativity through colored pencil application techniques with an emphasis on transitioning from graphite to color. Various finishing techniques unique to colored pencils will be introduced. Emphasizing form, drawing skills will be strengthened, facilitating your personal expression through botanical art. Live plant specimens will be used in demonstrations. A supply list will be sent. Prerequisite: Previous experience or...
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Tai chi from the Yang style is a beautiful, slow-moving meditation in motion. Once you are very comfortable with the foundations learned in Tai Chi for Beginners: Yang-Style, you move into the advanced beginner level. Build upon the basic Yang-Style forms and postures you learned, while continuing to receive the multiple health benefits of tai chi practice such as increased balance and flexibility. Class locations vary and will be held outdoors when...
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Asian Brush Painting Workshop New! Join a relaxing, meditative exploration into the nature and techniques of painting bamboo in the hsieh-i style of brush painting, called sumi-e in Japan. Through demonstrations and hands-on painting, learn to paint traditional bamboo with a high-flying guest dragonfly in ink and color. You will come away with two completed projects. Previous art experience is not necessary. ...
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
See, touch, smell, and taste common ways to use herbal preparations including dried, capsules, teas, decoctions, infusions, salves, tinctures, syrups, poultices, essential oils, and flower remedies/essences. Learn how “dis-ease” gradually builds and how to reverse it. Make four items for an herbal first-aid kit to take home and receive reference materials and recipes for long-term use.
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Are you able to deeply relax? Refresh your yoga practice with this combination class including meditative movement and contemplative stillness. Your focus on the breath and stress relief combined with meditation techniques keeps you in the present moment. Enhance your body awareness while connecting to deep relaxation. All levels of fitness and experience are welcome in this class.
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Glencoe, IL
Explore an ancient practice of soft, internal, and intentional forms as you focus on single movements. If you have taken the advanced beginner, intermediate, or advanced classes at the Garden, this class is appropriate for you. Dress for the weather.
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Rd, Chicago, IL
Light levels, varied shapes and colors, and horizontal and vertical patterns combine to create a photographic palette. Learn techniques to capture the exquisite beauty of the favored rose in all its glory. Prerequisite: Beginning Digital Photography or equivalent knowledge and skill. All registrations must be submitted online two days before your class starts.
Discover the joy of sketching plants in nature, even if you have no artistic training. Learn basic observation skills and drawing techniques to capture the essence of autumn leaves and flowers with pencil, pen, colored pencil, and a simple sketchbook. First class will be in the classroom and the second outside in the field. A supply list will be sent.
Be inspired by the classic imagery of the Dutch Masters to design a floral arrangement emulating the high-contrast, lush, and organic floral forms found in their paintings. You will create your own floral masterpiece using the very best flowers and fruit the fall season has to offer. You will then style a beautiful still life tableau using your arrangement, props, and textiles that will be captured in a photograph. The arrangement...
Chicago Botanic Garden @ 1000 Lake Cook Road, Chicago, IL
Celebrate the bounty of the season and create a rich, textural setting for your guests using local and sustainable flowers as well as edible elements such as figs and grapes. You will take home a lush, seasonally inspired floral centerpiece for your holiday entertaining.
Practice drawing and color techniques as a form of meditation. Slow down the art-making process, creating a peaceful and healing experience. Use intuition to connect to natural, creative forces. Through this meditative practice, enjoy calming, observational drawing of plants or flowers from your own home. Explore using tone and color to create a serene mood with watercolor markers on paper. A supply list will be sent.
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