Instructor: Ginny Yount

Ginny Yount
 Ginny Yount is a Botanical Artist living and teaching in Westchester, New York. After fifty years in Contract and Home Design, Ginny earned her Certificate of Botanical Art and Illustration from The New York Botanical Garden in June of 2022. Taking classes throughout the pandemic, she walked twenty eight preserves, parks, and ponds in New York and Connecticut, each visit memorialized in her signature horizontal blue journals.

Ginny grew up, the daughter of a USAF Pilot and Teacher living in Montana, Japan, Northern California, Pasadena, California, and New York; each with their diverse and distinct natural beauty. Her formative years were spent in the Northern California Wine County, where she drove tractors through vineyards and picked fruit and nuts from the many species of trees. Certainly Ginny's childhood living in such varied environments seeded her love of Botanical Art. Ginny attended college in Los Angeles receiving a Bachelors in Science of Professional Arts degree which lead to her to a fifty year career in Design.

Ginny has been published in the "Journal of the American Society of Botanical Artists". Her article entitled, "Pulling Up Roots" highlighted the infl uence that place and environment have on an artist and their work. She is a member of ASBA and Tri-State Botanical Artists.

Ginny has exhibited her work in New York at Innisfree Garden and Washington State at "Art Walk Edmonds" . Ginny's work continues to be commissioned by Patrons from coast to coast.

Ginny's art and weekly posts as well as her student " followers" can be found on her Instagram.

Classes by this instructor


Botanical Drawing for Beginners

This intro class teaches you basic botanical illustration techniques to help you make realistic drawings of branches, stems, leaves, and flowers using graphite.
261BIL145D 09/07 Su 11:00am-2:00pm Yount
NYBG
262BIL145B 11/01 Sa 11:00am-2:00pm Yount
NYBG

Horizontal Journaling in Line Wash: Autumn

Learn how to create autumn-inspired compositions across a two-page spread. Using ink, watercolor, and a provided template on paper vellum, you'll be able to illustrate and easily transfer your sketches of autumn leaves and other botanical subjects onto a horizontal more...
262BIL125 10/20 Mo 11:00am-1:00pm Yount
NYBG

Winter Buds in Colored Pencil

Get up close and personal on plant buds in winter. Learn how to identify and illustrate the bite-size beginnings of native trees, vines, and flowers. You'll use plant specimens and colored pencil to bring these buds to life on paper.
263BIL119 01/26 Mo 11:00am-1:00pm Yount
NYBG