Pollinator Portraits

Plein Air Sketch
Community Garden

With Karen Meneghin
August 10: 9:30AM – 11:30AM
**Co-Hosts:** Tusten Heritage Community Community Garden (THCG)
We’ll draw inspiration from **Piet Mondrian**, who painted over 100 flower portraits. Explore what’s in bloom working side-by-side with pollinators performing their life-sustaining role in our local ecosystem.
Demos and Sketch in Pastels.
Free **Registration**. Supplies included.

TUSTEN HERITAGE COMMUNITY GARDEN: De Mauro Lane, Narrowsburg, NY 12764. Our workshop is made possible with a grant, "Promoting Butterflies on the Byway," from the Upper Delaware Scenic Byway. (RAIN DATE: August 11)

About the Workshop

The Landscape Sketch Workshop with Karen Meneghin is based on Camille Corot’s field sketches (French, 1796-1875), an important figure in 19th Century Plein Air painting. We’ll explore his various drawing tools, styles and techniques using dry media to gain insights when sketching plein air.
PART I: Select and interpret one of his drawing samples or work from a TONAL LANDSCAPE exercise. In PART II: Create an original landscape composition based on the local landscape at Old Stone House “after Corot.” Workshops are best taken sequentially, but you may take either one or all for a good understanding of his approach to the landscape sketch.

Our workshop was made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.