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Nina Antze – What’s in the Garden? (Online); Thursday, May 8, June 12, July 10 & August 14, 2025

Four Months of Observation – Spring/Summer 2025

Dates: Thursday, May 8, June 12, July 10 & August 14, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM-12:30 PM Pacific Time/1:00-3:30 PM Eastern Time
Level: All (some experience working with colored pencils helpful)
Medium: Colored pencil

We will create sketchbook pages to document what is happening in our gardens each month. We will look at the spring flowers and leaves just budding, the roses of May and June and the sunflowers and zinnias of July and August.We focus on color and color mixing, colored pencil techniques, and learn a little botany as we go along. Learn to look closely at the changes in plant life in your own backyard.

A supply list and monthly handouts will be provided. All levels welcome.

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$295.00

Nina Antze is a botanical artist and quiltmaker living in Sonoma County. She has a degree in Fine Art from San Francisco State University and has a Certificate in Botanical Illustration from the New York Botanical Gardens. She recently studied with Sarah Simblet at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford, England. She teaches Colored Pencil at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa Junior College, the San Francisco Botanical Gardens, Point Reyes, around the Bay Area and in Southern California. Nina is a member of the Northern California Society of Botanical Artists, the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, and the Colored Pencil Society of America. Her Chinese Snake-bark Maple has been accepted in the deYoung Open at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco.

About Our Online Classes:

  • This class is taught live via Zoom. To take this class, you need a microphone and camera enabled computer OR an iPad /smart tablet OR a smart phone (android or IOS) and a strong internet connection.
  • You will have access to a private class message board on our website where you can share work, comment and ask questions. (Exact use of the message board, critique of student work and general class format is at the discretion of the instructor, please check course description for details.)
  • Class will be recorded and recordings expire 60 days after the final day of the course.
  • Participants will receive an email with the Zoom link and class details 5-7 days before the class starts (don’t forget to check your junk folder). Zoom link will also be posted in the class message board. Check your confirmation email for a message board link or visit your Online Classrooms to find your active classes.

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