Environmental Science Art

A series of classes for adults and teens. Each 2 or 3-hour workshop includes a 15 minute fun science talk focusing on local ecology and environmental issues and is followed by a brief art skills lesson, and then plenty of time to create your art.

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Designed for STEAM, Public Libraries, State & City Parks, or other educational venues.

A sample of environmental science art topics - All Classes are for all levels:

Bird Migration, Nature Journaling Birds - Learn what challenges birds face as they migrate thousands of miles, what flyways are, what bird anatomy is, and tips to add birds to your nature journaling practice.
Salt Marshes, Nature Journaling Landscapes - Salt Marshes are one of the more productive and critical environments. Learn about tides, animal life cycles, and salt marsh grasses. We’ll cover landscape basics and color theory and provide tips to add landscape to your nature journal.
Plants, Nature Journaling Flowers—Learn about plants and flowers, their life cycles, and how to add flowers to your nature journal.
Urban Trees/How to Draw Trees with Pencil: Learn about the history of tree planting in NYC, and then we’ll delve into drawing trees.
Intro to Nature Journaling - Anyone who loves nature can participate; no experience is necessary. All you need is paper, a pencil, and your curiosity.
Painting Plankton, Oil Pastel & Watercolor - The role plankton plays in our environment and marine ecology. With a focus on our local waterway. Oil pastel and watercolor painting of a coccolithophore, jellyfish, or other plankton.
Flipping Tides, Flip Books - Learn about saltwater marshes in the NY/NJ Estuary to inspire a fun flipbook animation project.
Triple Oysters, Watercolor Triptych - Oysters are part of our NY Harbor history. Use watercolors to create a triptych painting.
Sketching Sea Squirts (tunicates), Colored Pencils - Learn about tunicates and how they filter pollution in our local waterways. Explore and experience the artistic art of scientific illustration using colored pencils.
My East River Story, Accordion Book—Explore the East River’s exciting history, geography, and ecology, which made NYC what it is. Then, cut, fold, collage, and glue to create an 8-page accordion book. Fill it with drawings, paintings, writing, or poetry to express your thoughts and experiences of the East River.
Local Flowers/Intro to Botanical Illustration—Bring your pencils, paper, and favorite color media to learn the basics of this technical and creative art. We’ll have fun with warm-up exercises, color mixing, realistic drawing, and starting an illustration.
Bioluminescent Deep Sea Creatures/Oil Pastel & Colored Pencils on Black Paper - Sailors told tales about floating on glowing seas during moonless nights. New technologies show this phenomenon to be real and not a myth. Draw Angler fish, zooplankton, and other bioluminescent deep sea creatures.
Cycle in Nature/Phenology Wheel - There are many cycles in the natural world. Even in NYC, plants, trees, animals, the season, moon phases. Discover how to draw a wheel and create a visual record of the cycles in nature around you.

NEW TOPICS UPON REQUEST