Join us in this beginner-friendly course open to all levels of artists to explore botanical art, using Longwood-grown fruits and vegetables—or your own produce brought from home—as a muse and subject.
See the beauty of a garden’s bounty in a whole new way: by capturing it with your preferred medium of choice, from watercolor to graphite to colored pencils. Students should bring their own supplies for this course.
Course Schedule
Online Orientation
Wednesday, September 25, 6:00–6:30 pm
Onsite Session
Saturday, September 28, 9:30 am–1:30 pm
Full course content includes both the online and the onsite components.
Location
Online and the Kennett Library and Resource Center
Instructor
Diana Heitzman
Diana Heitzman is an artist who is active in botanical painting. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and studied at Temple University in Rome, Italy. Post-graduation, Heitzman studied graphic design and advertising at Moore College of Art in Philadelphia and worked as an art director. Heitzman has taught in Cape May County as well as Mt Cuba Center and Center of the Creative Arts in Delaware. She has shown her work in several galleries and completed multiple commissions, including the Wilmington Flower Market Poster. For the past 20 years she has exhibited and sold her paintings at the annual Philadelphia Flower Show. She is a member of the American Society of Botanical Artists and the Philadelphia Society of Botanical Illustrators.
