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Week 1: Workshop A | Workshop B | Mini Workshop
Week 2: Workshop
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Week 1 Workshop A
Drawing Small Mammals with Nancy Halliday
(Sunday June 15-Wednesday June 18)
The focus of this session will be on the accurate portrayal of small mammals by observation and sketching of live subjects (that workshop attendees will live-trap at PCCI). Attendees will also participate in dissection of rats to study small mammal muscle and skeletal structure, and prepare of a finished illustration focusing on pose, composition, and integration with the background.
About the Instructor 
Nancy Halliday has worked for almost 50 years as a museum artist for both scientific publications and educational exhibits, and she has taught scientific illustration since 1977. Nancy holds a BS in Zoology from the University of Oklahoma and an M.A. in Geography and Environmental Studies from Northeast Illinois University. She recently retired from the position of Artist-Naturalist for Forest Preserve District of Cook County, Illinois. Nancy completed twelve watercolor plates for the Field Guide to North American Mammals by Wilson and Kays. Her awards and accomplishments include first prize recipient for color category, GNSI Exhibition at Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1979, and she won second prize in watercolor at the National Wildlife Federation Exhibition, Vienna, Virginia, in 1983. She teaches in the Botanical Art Education program at the Morton Arboretum, Lisle IL. Her accomplishments include authoring the bird illustration chapter in the GNSI Handbook of Scientific Illustration, and acting GNSI Historian since 1995. |
Round-Tailed Muskrat (detail), scratchboard 12.5"x10.5".
© Nancy Halliday
Fox (detail), pen and ink 3"x4.5".© Nancy Halliday
Grey-necked Chipmunk (detail, black and white), watercolor
12"x11". © Nancy Halliday |
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Week 1 Workshop B
Gouache and Colored Ink with Suzanne Wegener
(Wednesday, June 18-Saturday, June 21)
This session will offer discussion of techniques and applications with both mediums, and their use in developing backgrounds for illustrations. Attendees may use the small mammal illustration they prepared in the first half-week as their subject or begin with a new subject.
About the Instructor 
Suzanne Wegener earned her BGS in Scientific Illustration from Northern Illinois University and a MS in Biomedical Visualization from the University of Illinois, Chicago. She is currently the Coordinator of Botanical Art Education at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois and is free-lancing in medical and natural history illustration. Suzanne has taught traditional art techniques at various institutions for over ten years and co-taught the 2003 and 2004 GNSI Summer Workshop.
Parmotrema perforatum (detail), colored ink. © Suzanne Wegener |
Acacia drepanolobium pod (detail), colored ink.
© Suzanne Wegener.
Cardoon (Cynara cardunculus), gouache. © Suzanne Wegener |
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Mini Workshop
Egg Tempera with Karen Ackoff
(Saturday, June 21)
Egg tempera is a medium with characteristics unlike modern media. Because it
lends itself toward transparency and is also waterproof, colors may be
layered, allowing them to show through subsequent applications of color.
This allows for underpainting and creates wonderful effects of light and
shadow. This workshop will explore qualities characteristic to this versatile medium. A "modern method" of egg tempera will be employed,requiring no special materials. Both traditional and modern methods permit such
techniques as cross-hatching, stippling, and scumbling. Workshop
participants will explore and experiment with these techniques.
About the Instructor 
Karen Ackoff is an illustrator, designer, and fine artist who has exhibited in the
US and abroad, and whose illustrations have been published in numerous
books and journals. Her work ranges from small, delicate renderings of
natural objects, to imagined composite creatures. She works in a range of
techniques: egg tempera, silverpoint, watercolor, and creates
computer-generated imagery. She worked as a Scientific Illustrator at the
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution from 198797,
and she has taught for numerous institutions, the University of the Arts
(Philadelphia), Maryland Institute College of Art, New York Botanical Garden
and The Scottsdale Artists' School. She is presently Program Coordinator for
the Graphic Design Program at Indiana University South Bend.
Study of Atlantic Puffin (detail), egg tempera. 2.75" W x 3.625" H.
© Karen Ackoff
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Study of Robin's Egg, egg tempera. 2" W x 1.75" H
© Karen Ackoff
Tlingit Whale (detail), egg tempera with lapis lazuli. 7.5" W x 3"H.
© Karen Ackoff
Puppet Chapel (detail), at the Puppet Museum, Glover, Vermont,
egg tempera, 6" W x 3.5" H. © Karen Ackoff
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Week 2 Workshop
Integrating Foreground And Background in Watercolor Illustrations with Patricia Savage
(Saturday, June 22-Saturday, June 28)
The emphasis of this session will be on composition, the relationship between warm, cool, and complementary colors, mixing color, color theory, and watercolor technique. Attendees may again build on the initial drawing they have completed in Nancy’s session, or begin with a new subject.
About the Instructor 
Patricia Savage earned her BS in Art Education from Western Carolina University and currently works as a fine artist and free-lance illustrator. In 2008, several of Patricia’s paintings will be featured in Modern Botanical Art — Eden Re-imagined. Recently she was awarded The Pastel Journals’ 6th Annual Pastel 100 Competition Best in Wildlife and Honorable Mention in Wildlife. In 2001, Patricia participated as an Artist in-Residence in Denali National Park and the joint Smith College and PBS project The 1899 Harriman Expedition Retraced: A Century of Change. Her work has appeared in The Best in Wildlife Art 2, The Best in Wildlife Art, North American Endangered and Protected Species, Focus Magazine (Italy), US Art, Wildlife Art, and Wildlife in North Carolina.
Her paintings have been shown at Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, the Bell Museum of Natural History, the National Geographic Society, the US Botanic Gardens, and Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom. Patricia teaches watercolor, pastel, composition and color theory at the University of North Carolina Botanical Garden’s Botanical Illustration Certificate Program. She has given many workshop and lectures including at the Guild of Natural Science’s annual meetings, the NC Museum of Natural History, and the NC Museum of Art. |
Our Atlantic Sea Turtles (detail). North Carolina Wildlife Magazine,
accompanies article about the marine turtles found off the coast of
North Carolina. Watercolor 20" W x 13" H. © Patricia Savage
Rotten log habitat. North Carolina Museum of Natural History,
showing the variety of creatures typically found in, and associated
with, a rotting log in the mountains of North Carolina. Watercolor.
4'W x 20"H. © Patricia Savage
North Carolina mountain cove (detail). North Carolina Museum of
Natural History, showing the variety of plants and animals typical
in a Tulip Poplar mountain cove. Watercolor. 4' W x 20"H
© Patricia Savage
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