Course Dates
TBD
Prerequisites
None
Course Description
This one-week introductory course covers basic skills needed for scientific illustration using visual opportunities found around Appledore Island (Shoals Marine Lab). Instruction provides foundational knowledge for visual science communication, with significant time devoted to observational drawing, including key features of subjects like size comparisons and basic shapes. Students are encouraged to practice and experiment using a variety of media including graphite, pen & ink, colored pencil and watercolor to complete a project using each medium. These four assignments take advantage of the unique nature of the coast for finding inspiration and reference, including locations and subjects found around the island and live specimens housed in sea tables. The course is designed to allow students with any art background to succeed with their drawing ability.
Faculty
Carol Schwartz
Carol Schwartz is inspired by nature, as an observer and as an artist, which is evident in her 60+ picture books, largely nonfiction, about nature and her work in countless magazines and publications.
She earned her MFA in Illustration from the University of Hartford and a BFA at the Kansas City Art institute and Rhode Island School of Design. Carol’s artwork has been in many exhibitions nationally, including The Society of Illustrators in New York and Focus on Nature XIV and XV. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Shoals Marine Laboratory on Appledore Island, Maine multiple times.
Carol is Assistant Professor of Illustration at the University of Hartford, Connecticut and teaches in Rhode Island School of Design’s Natural Science Certificate Program.
