BY KAREN BOSSICK
A master watercolor instructor from the New York Botanical Garden will teach “Watercolor Weekend” on Saturday and Sunday.
Laura Vogel , who has taught at the New York Botanical Garden for 23 years, will teach “Watercolor Weekend on Aug. 25-26 at the Sawtooth Botanical Garden south of Ketchum.
The intimate workshop will accommodate both beginners and more experienced artists who wish to refine their skills. Participants will practice watercolor techniques on day one and apply those techniques using leaf images on day two.
She will follow that up with a “From Graphite to Color” workshop on Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 29-30.
Preregistration is required at www.sbgarden.org/event/watercolor-weekend/ or by calling 208-726-9358.
Vogel has worked as a freelance botanical illustrator, illustrating more than 1,300 new drawings for “The Illustrated Companion to Gleason & Cronquist’s Vascular Plants of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada.”
She also taught field biology at William Paterson University and contributed illustrations to three volumes of “Intermountain Flora.”