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Scientific Illustration Course. 2 Edition

 
  • Scientific Illustration Course. 2 Edition.
  • 4 credits
  • From 3 to 14 November 2003.

Lecturers:

  • Jordi Corbera. Scientific illustrator since 1975, he is graduated in Biological Sciences by the university of Barcelona. He is a founding member of the Scientific Illustrators Collective IMAGO. He has collaborated with his illustrations in editorials and institutions such as Plaza & Janés, Blume, Salvat, Ketrés, Gran Enciclopedia Catalana, Planeta, Ediciones 62, RBA, CSIC, Generalitat de Cataluña, Diputación de Barcelona, Diputación de Burgos, Parque de Collserola, Museo de la Ciencia de Barcelona, Fundación Atapuerca, Museo de la Ciencia de Cuenca, Museo de Granollers and the Universitst de València. He has given courses and lectures about scientific drawing in the Zoology Museum of Barcelona, the Natural Park of Aiguamolls del Empordà, the Masana School of Barcelona, the Cultural Centre of La Mercè of Girona, and the Barcelona Excursionist Centre. He collaborates on magazines such as Mundo Científico, El Tiempo, Sapiens, The Anatomical Record, Annales des Sciences Naturelles. He has participated in exhibits organized by the Granollers Museum, the Faculty of Biology of Barcelona, Zoology Museum of Barcelona, Alcoy City Hall, the University of Barcelona and the Universitat de València.
  • Carles Puche. He 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.

  • Eduardo Saiz Alonso 

    (Guest lecturer). Scientific illustrator since 1975, he is graduated in Biological Sciences by the University of Barcelona. He is a founding member of the Scientific Illustrators Collective IMAGO. He has collaborated with his illustrations in editorials and institutions such as Plaza & Janés, Blume, Salvat, Ketrés, Gran Enciclopedia Catalana, Planeta, Ediciones 62, RBA, CSIC, Generalidad de Cataluña, Diputación de Barcelona, Diputación de Burgos, Collserola Park, sciences Museum of  Barcelona, Fundación Atapuerca, Science Museum of Cuenca, Granollers Museum and the Universitat de València. He has given courses and lectures about scientific drawing in the Zoology Museum of Barcelona, the Natural Park of Aiguamolls del EMpordà, the Masana School of Barcelona, the Cultural Centre of La Mercè of Girona, and the Barcelona Excursionist Centre. He collaborates on magazines such as Mundo Científico, El Tiempo, Sapiens, The Anatomical Record, Annales des Sciences Naturelles. He has participated in exhibits organized by the Granollers Museum, the Faculty of Biology of Barcelona, Zoology Museum of Barcelona, Alcoy City Hall, the University of Barcelona and the Universitat de València.

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, Patricia Kernan, scientific illustrator of the New York State Museum, will give a double session where he will explain how she makes her illustrations. 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: 40Timetable: Monday to Friday to 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Natural Science Museum (Viveros Garden)

Price: 65€