- Scientific Illustration Course. 4 Edition.
- 4 credits
- From 14 to 25 November 2005, Monday to Friday from 3.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.
Lecturer:
Carles Puche is a self-educated drawer and member of the Catalan Institution of Natural History, the Mexican academy of Scientific illustrators and the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators. He has presented his work both in individual and collective exhibitions. Particularly important were the ones in Común de Particulares de la Pobla de Segur (1987), the Natural Park of Aiguamolls del Empordà (1991), The Botanical Garden of the University of Valencia (2002) and the Natural Science Museum “La Tela” of Granollers (2003). Since 1991, his work is permanently exposed in the Rural Life Museum of L’Espluga de Francolí and the CosmoCaixa Museum of Barcelona. He has participated as an illustrator of works such as the Pòsters de la Flora i Fauna del Parc Natural del Montseny (1991) the Barcelona Provincial Council Coneguem la Sèquia de Manresa - Accèsit premi Ors i de Prat (1982), the Government of Catalonia Pòsters dels aiguamolls de L'Empordà (1988), the Great Catalan Encyclopedia, Ramon Folch Biosfera (1992), Recreacions de paisatges prehistòrics de València, the exhibit of the university of Valencia De Neandertals a Cromanyons Recreacions de paisatges prehistòrics de València (2001), El Periódico (The Newspaper) Enciclopedia de la Naturaleza y el Medio Ambiente (1992), Planeta Editorial Frutos silvestres de la Península Ibérica (1996) and Documenta Balear Papallones diurnes de Balears (1998). He has collaborated with the popular magazines Mundo Científico, National Geographic, El Temps, Ciencia. He has published some articles in educational journals such as Mètode, Medi Ambient y Mundo Científico. In 1990, he created the “Taller de les Tècniques de la Il·lustració” (The Studio of Illustration Techniques), where he gave naturalist drawing lessons the whole year and until 2001. From 1982, when he started the first naturalist drawing course in Montseny, he has given more than twenty courses sponsored by various institutions: La Caixa de Pensiones, CosmoCaixa - Science Museum of Barcelona, GEPEC, Natural Science Museum “La Tela”, Natural Park of Aiguamolls del Empordà, Barcelona Provincial Council, Unión Excursionista de Sabadell, and the University of Valencia.
He drew the first identifying drawing of the new ant genre Thecnomyrmex caritatis, which was discovered in an amber fossil by the entomologists Cesare Baroni Urbani and Carlos Roberto Brandao, as well as the so-called fossil Jorge Caridad.
Aaron Astrada. Current secretary and treasurer of the Mexican Academy of Scientific Illustration. He is a specialist in illustration techniques of watercolour, ink, pencils and aerography. He was one of the founding members of AMIGO in 1992. He has published, among others, various investigation articles of the Geology Institute of the UNAM, and he is the author of the book Flora y Fauna de Valle de Tehuacan (IBUNAM). He teaches drawing courses in the House of Science of UNAM. He was the organizer of the first meeting of Mexican illustrators in Coyoacán in 1991, and the exhibitor of the colloquium La biología en el arte, el arte en la biología which was organised by the National School of Plastic Arts, IBUNAM and the Institute of Investigations of the UNAM.
Objectives:
To display the process of realization of a definitive illustration from the subject to be drawn. To qualify professionals and students to make illustrations which will help complementing their investigation and study works. The course is intended to professionals and students of any area included in the study and investigation of Natural Science, Prehistory or any other which need the scientific drawing as a way of expression.
The penultimate day of the course, Aaron Astrada, secretary and treasurer of the Mexican Academy of Scientific Illustration, will give a double session where he will explain the way he draws his illustrations and the tasks and objectives of that entity. The last day of the course will dedicate to comment with the students the different works made.
All the material required to the realization of the course will be provided to the students.
Programme:
- Scientific Illustration and the Nature Drawing.
- The reason: plants, animals, fossil remains, environments.
- Technique: black and white, colour.
- The means: the graphite pencil, the Indian ink, watercolour, gouache.
- The fieldwork: the field notes and the pictures.
- Drawing to study: the binoculars, the camera lucida, the computer, the transparency table.
- The black and white drawing: pens, the stylograph, the graphite pencil, the paper, the scrapers and paintbrushes, and the ink.
- The colour drawing: the paintbrushes, watercolour, the paper, the colouring pencils.
- To prepare the illustration to be edited. The scanner, image resolution and type of files, final touches.
- Copyright: the property of the illustration, types of author's rights and the rights and duties of illustrators.
Places: 20.
Location: The Natural Science Museum (Viveros Garden)
