Instructor: Adele Rossetti

Adele Rossetti
 Adele Rossetti, recently awarded the 2017 Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant, will study and paint the flora of the Mata Atlantica in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Adele was previously named a Fulbright Scholar in 2016, has been honored by the Hunt Institute, and earned the American Society ofBotanical Artists' Excellence Award and the Royal Horticultural Society's Grenfells Science Medal. She has taught art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn,where she received a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and a Master of Science in History of Art, Design, and Architecture. Adele has taught in Pratt Institute's Venice Program, as well as at Vassar College, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, The New York Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Adele illustrated the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Discovery Garden interpretation consoles and is a fellow of the BBG Florilegium Society. Additionally, Adele is a lecturer, published scientific illustrator, private art tutor, and exhibiting artist.

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Classes by this instructor


Botanical Watercolor I

This comprehensive class covers the basic techniques of botanical watercolor. Learn how to use your brushes to make smooth, underlying washes, as well as to create fine detail. Color theory will teach you how paints interact, and how to select more...
271BIL331BO 09/15 Tu 1:00pm-4:30pm Rossetti
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Japanese Anemones in Watercolor

Learn the basic watercolor techniques used by botanical artists while painting a Japanese anemone from the photograph provided. Demonstrations will show you how to lay a smooth wash and how to shade a form to make it look 3D, among more...
271BIL151O 09/20 Su 11:00am-4:30pm Rossetti
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Japanese Chrysanthemums in Watercolor

Learn how to apply the basic watercolor techniques of botanical art as you paint Japanese chrysanthemums, or kiku, with stylistic flair borrowed from the ukiyo-e style—a prominent genre of Japanese art featuring woodblock prints and paintings that flourished from the more...
272BIL361O 11/07 Sa 11:00am-2:00pm Rossetti
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