24 April – 1 May, 2010

The course
Terrie has established a reputation for her rich and beautifully realised colour pencil drawings. Her course covers a discussion of key aspects of pencil drawing and techniques – choosing colours, shading, layering, producing highlights, textures. She will provide guidance and instruction on how to draw a range of textures, leaf shapes and flowers. The course will also cover picture composition, the use of computer aided design and image transfer, information on matting, framing and reproducing drawings and watercolour paintings. Finally, she’ll be showing you some simple book binding techniques to enable you bind up the week’s work – and encourage you to keep drawing.

EXTRA WEEK!!! Why not have two weeks of Botanical Art at Daku Resort? In the week before Terrie’s course, Susan Worthington is also teaching Botanical Art. Susan is one of New Zealand’s most celebrated Botanical artists. The two courses will show you entirely different ways of approaching Botanical art, opening up exciting new possibilities in your style and understanding of the form. If you do both courses, the second one will only cost NZ$1900 – a saving of NZ$800.

Terrie Reddish is a skilled and accomplished colour pencil artist based in Havelock North, Hawkes Bay on the east coast of New Zealand. She produces exquisitely detailed botanical works which are incredibly lifelike. Terrie’s objective is to present plants from everyday life in a way that draws the observer in to a new world of discovery.

She was awarded a gold medal at the Royal Horticultural Society’s December 2008 show for her study of Phormium tenax, also known as NZ Flax or Harakeke, in Maori. Two of the eight drawings were purchased at the show: one by the RHS Linley Library for their collection and the other by a private buyer.

Dr Shirley Sherwood, the world’s leading collector of botanical art, has recently added one of Terrie’s medal winning drawings to her comprehensive private collection of twentieth century contemporary botanical art.

Programme

Saturday 24 April
Arrive in Nadi and spend the night in Nadi

Sunday 25 April
7.00am: Fly to Savusavu
8.30am: Breakfast
10.00am – 12.30pm: Workshop Pencil drawing basics and tips
1.00pm:  Poolside lunch
2.00pm:  Coconut cutting demonstration
Afternoon free
4.00pm – 5.30pm: Workshop
7.00pm: Dinner

Monday 26 April
9.00am – 12.30pm: Workshop – Composition
12.30pm: Lunch
Afternoon visit to Savusavu town
7.00pm: Dinner

Tuesday 27 April
9.00am – 12.30pm: Workshop – Leaves
12.30pm: Lunch
Afternoon: Free time for snorkeling, diving, swimming etc.
4.00pm: Tapa making demonstration (tapa: bark cloth)
7.00pm: Dinner

Wednesday 28 April
9.00am – 12.30pm: Workshop – Flowers
1.30pm: Lunch
3.30pm – 5.30pm: Boat/beach outing
7.00pm: Dinner

Thursday 29 April
9.00am – 12.30pm: Workshop – Practice, trouble shooting and discussion on completion of drawings
12.30pm: Lunch
Afternoon: free
6.00pm: Drinks at Yacht Club in Savusavu and dinner in town

Friday 30 April
9.30am – 12.30pm:  Workshop – Wrap up – binding up the week’s work
12.30pm: Lunch
1.30pm – 2.30pm: Final session – questions and continuing on
4.00pm – 5.30pm: Village visit and traditional Fijian meke (dance)
7.00pm: Final lovo dinner

Saturday 1 May
Return to Nadi and on home