Using Essential Oils for Natural Perfumery, Diffusion, and Cosmetics with Paula Gross

   

Sunday, March 24   1 – 4pm

Instructor: Paula Gross, Former Associate Director UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens

Cost: $55 / $50 for members

 

As part of our Green and Healthy New Year series of workshops, this class on essential oils will get you started on crafting your own self-care and beauty products made from plant-based and natural ingredients. Paula will educate you about the botanical background of some essential oils such as lavender, bergamot, and peppermint and you will use your knowledge and skills to blend your own signature scent. Students will also create and take home a 4oz essential oil diffusing home spray, and 4oz of either an essential oil blended body oil or body butter!

Treat yourself or a loved one to this special class. Gift certificates are available- email Wendy Wilson at wwilso35@uncc.edu for a beautiful gift card for someone special.

Location: McMillan Greenhouse Classroom, UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens

Class Limit: 16

Registration Required

 

Botanical Drawing 1

    

      

Thursday, May 2  9am – 12:00

Instructor: Amy Tipton, UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens’ Assistant Director,

    BFA Drawing, MS Botany

CNPS Credit: 3 hours

Plants offer an unending supply of interesting shapes, textures, and details for artists to discover and translate to the page. Botanists and artists alike must develop skills of seeing plants deeply.

Amy will help introduce participants to critical exploration of plant forms.  An understanding of basic plant parts and floral arrangement will be discussed briefly to assure accurate representations of the selected subject specimen(s).  

Once the participants choose a plant/flower to draw, they will learn how to select an interesting composition, capture the subject’s proportions, create a line drawing, and complete their plant portrait with a range of values created through an exploration of different types of mark.

Location: Classroom, McMillan Greenhouse, UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens
Class limit: 15
Minimum class size:  7
Level:  Beginner to Advanced (all that is required is an interest in plants and/or drawing!)
Cost: $45.  Small materials list will be sent to registrants prior to class.

 

                      

Plants and Palettes

   

Thursdays May 9 – October 24   9am – 12pm

Plants and Palettes is a weekly opportunity for artists to utilize The UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens for their drawing, painting, etc.  Bring your easel, your canvas, or your sketchbook. Artists are welcome to stay later than noon, and are encouraged to bring their lunch and gather informally with other artists at the picnic tables in the Idesia Grove of the Harwood Garden.   

Location: UNC Charlotte Outdoor Botanical Gardens

Cost: $10 donation requested

No pre-registration required; please sign in at the McMillan Greenhouse across from the outdoor gardens.  

Artists are asked to review The Gardens’ policies (https://gardens.uncc.edu/visiting-the-gardens/etiquettepolicies/) regarding staying on the paths and not picking flowers or other plant parts.  In addition, we ask that artists do not block paths from other visitors’ passage.

 Botanical Watercolor 1     

Thursday, June 6  9am – 12pm

Plants offer an unending supply of interesting colors for artists to discover and translate to the page. Botanists and artists alike must develop skills of discriminating color for plant identification and painting. In this class, Amy will help introduce participants to critical exploration of plant color. The class will explore basic color theory and color mixing. Participants will be provided with a variety of leaves, simple flowers, etc. to use for color studies. They will be guided to mix watercolors to match the multitude of botanical hues, tints and shades they see. Once the student feels comfortable with the colors they have created, they will create a simple line drawing of 1-2 plant elements and complete it/them with the colors they have discovered.

Instructor: Amy Tipton, UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens’ Assistant Director
BFA Drawing, MS Botany

Location: Classroom, McMillan Greenhouse, UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens

Class limit: 15
Minimum class size: 7
Level: Beginner to Advanced (all that is required is an interest in plants and/or color!)
Cost: $55. Paper and watercolors will be provided.  Students should bring a plastic palette and a variety of brushes (specifications will be sent via email to registrants prior to class).
Registration required