- Scientific Illustration Course. 7 Edition.
- 4 credits
- From 17 November to 2 December 2008, 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.
Guest Lecturer:
Jordi Corbera. Graduated in Applied Arts, in the speciality of Pictorial Procedures and Chalcographic Engraving. He is a member of the Institución Catalana de Historia Natural (Catalan Institution of the Natural History), The Crustacean Society, Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, the Professional Association of Illustrators of Catalonia (APIC) and the Mataró Museum. He is the author of various scientific articles about the systemic and ecology of crustaceans where he has described new species such as Amphi-Atlantic distribution of the Mancomunatinae (Cumacea: Bodotriidae), with description of a new genus dwelling in marine lava cavas of Tenerife (Canary Islands), Zoological Journal of Linnean Society, 134:453-461. He has participated in works like Els invertebrats litorals dels Països Catalans (Ed. Pórtico, 1991), Els peixos de les illes Medes i del litoral català (Escuela del Mar de Badalona, 1992), Dibujantes a Montseny. La il·lustració científica al Parc Natural del Montseny (Museo de Granollers, Ciencias Naturales, 2000), Dibuixar la Natura.Il·lustradors naturalístics al Jardí Botànic de la Universitat de València (Universitat de València, 2002). As an illustrator he collaborates in the illustration of Història Natural dels Països Catalans(1984-1991) and Biosfera (1992-1997) of the Gran Enciclopedia Catalana y de Descubrir España (1990) of National Geographic. He has also participated in the project Iberian Fauna which is coordinated by the Natural Science National Museum (CSIC) illustrating the volume called Anelida, Polychaeta II. He draws illustrations for scientific works published in international magazines in collaboration with researchers of centers such as the Institute of Marine Science (CSIC), the Blanes Centre for Advanced Studies (CEAB), Alfred Wegener Institute (Bremehaven), and the University of Barcelona. Besides, he frequently collaborates with science dissemination magazines such as the Spanish edition of national Geographic, Instigation and Science and Biologics, among others. He has given different courses of scientific illustration like the Granollers Museum, the Museo de Zoología de Barcelona (the Zoology Museum of Barcelona) and the Universitat de València. He also carries out the technical editing od Scientia Marina, an international magazine dedicated to marine biology and that is edited by the Institute of Marine Science (CSIC), and he is the coordinator of the magazine La Agave, published by the Mataró Museum.
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:
17/11. Presentation: Scientific illustration and the nature drawing. Pencil sketch of a photography.
18/11. Field notes at the Botanic Garden.
19/11. Ink drawing of plants.
20/11. Colour drawing of plants.
21/11. Colour drawing of plants.
26/11. Class guided by Jordi Corbera: The drawing of fauna. Practise: the graphite pencil drawing of a bird. The plumage.
27/11. Field notes at the Zoo.
28/11. Colour drawing of fauna.
01/12. Colour drawing of fauna.
02/12. Colour drawing of fauna and the conclusion of the course.
Places: 20
