- Scientific Illustration Course. 5 Edition.
- 4 credits
- From 13 to 24 November 2006, 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.
Juan Luis Castillo. He is a botanist illustrator graduated in Biological Sciences by The Complutense University of Madrid and a member of the London “The Society of Botanical Artists” and the New York “The American Society of Botanical Artists”. He has participated in various exhibitions and has illustrated various books such as Flora Mycologica Ibérica (Lado, C & F. Pando. 1997), Arboreto Giner de los Ríos (Mesa Jiménez, S. & J.L. Castillo. 2005) or the different volumes of Flora ibérica (Castroviejo, S. et al.). He has been awarded with the la Sivert Guilt Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society in 2000 and 2003, and the Honourable Mention in Scientific Botanic Illustration in colour in the 9th Latin American Congress of Botanic (Santo Domingo - Dominican Republic).
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.
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)
