Sarah Saltus Siddig – Seasonal Flowers in Realistic Detail (Online); Thursdays, July 6-27, 2023

Capture the delight of seasonal flowers found in our warm Spring and Summer Months by first rendering a structured, technical graphite drawing and then completing a fully realized tonal drawing with either graphite or colored pencil.  Appropriate for all levels.

Materials: Graphite pencils, preferably Staedtler, paper, erasers, an electric pencil sharpener, and colored pencils of choice.

Sarah Saltus Siddig received her certificates in Botanical Art and Natural Science Illustration at The New York Botanical Garden where she then taught Drawing, Colored Pencil, and Watercolor for eight years. Her teaching credits also include Connecticut College Arboretum, several Garden Clubs of America, Wooster School Community Art Center, the Harvey School in Katonah, NY, and EYE, in Greenwich, CT.

Her work has appeared at the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs, the Mariposa Museum in Peterborough, NH, GALLERY YELLOW in Cross River, NY, the ESC at the Yale Peabody Museum, juried exhibits at the Highstead Arboretum, the Frelinghysen Arboretum, the Mark Twain Library, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, the Wilton Library, the City Lights Gallery in Bridgeport, CT, “Art in the Country” for the Easton Arts Council, Front Street Gallery in Patterson, NY, Connecticut Audubon in Pomfret, CT, the international juried show, “the 5 B’s”, at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, PA, the Natural Science show at the Spectrum Art Gallery in Centrebrook, CT, the annual juried art show at the Slater Art Museum, the Boston Flower Show, and the “Rivers, Textile and Dye Plants” NESBA show at the Brush Art Gallery in Lowell, MA.