1. Abstract Floral Photography
At Longwood Gardens

2. Longwood Gardens
WELCOME to…

3. Longwood Gardens About
Purchased by Pierre DuPont in 1906 to preserve the landscape from developers, Longwood Gardens was originally supposed to be a unique place for the wealthy entrepreneur to entertain his friends. However, within a few years, Pierre transformed a simple country farm into one of the country’s leading horticultural display gardens.
Today the 1,077- acre Longwood Gardens consists of varied outdoor gardens, ranging from formal to naturalistic in their landscape design, and 20 indoor gardens within a 200,000 square foot group of heated greenhouses. Longwood’s Conservatory contains 4,600 different types of plants and trees, as well as fountains.

10. Orchid Room

11. Cactus Room

12. Cactus Room

13. Lilly Pad Ponds

14. Out Door
Gardens

17. Water
Gardens

21. Drawing and Painting I Assignment:
Collect pictures of flowers that could be used for the final painting assignment.
Plein-air contour line drawings of Flowers

22. Assignment 1: Pictures collected
pictures of flowers thinking about:
Color Theory
Composition
Interesting perspectives
background

23. 1. Color Theory
Color theory should be thought about purposefully when creating a work of art or when collecting reference pictures. Decide if you want a more peaceful feeling or a more exciting feeling.
Most of the time the background would be green because of the foliage that sits behind the flowers…so choose either analogous to create a peaceful, relaxing feeling or complementary colors for a more exciting, dynamic mood.
Complementary: Red/Green Analogous: Violet/Green

24. ii. composition
Composition refers to the layout of the picture. Think about:
What is your focal point and where are you placing it?
Is it radial, symmetrical or asymmetrical?
Have you zoomed in to break the picture plane and abstract the image?
*some if this can be done in Photoshop with the teacher**
Radial Symmetrical Asymmetrical

25. III. Interesting perspectives
Perspective refers to the viewer’s vantage point. Try interesting perspectives:
Birds eye
Underneath
Side/3 quarter
Birdseye Underneath Side

26. 1V. background
The background is one area that is under estimated and extremely important to consider. ALWAYS think about the background when taking reference pictures:
Zoom in so much there is no background.
Keep the background clean so it does not distract from the focal point
Think about color theory when considering the background
Zoomed In Clean vs. distracting Color theory

27. FINAL Floral Painting Example

28. Plein air Drawing
Drawing outside is known as "Plein Air" drawing. Literally translated, this French term means "in the open air".
Drawing and painting outside is a common thing for artists to do today, but in the late 1800s the Impressionists ventured out of their studios into nature to investigate and capture the effects of sunlight and different times of days on a subject, it was quite revolutionary.

29. Contour line Drawings of Flowers

30. Plein-air contour line drawings of Flowers5
Plein-air contour line drawings of Flowers
All drawings should be done in contour lines with pencil (lighly) or pen.
**We can outline pencil drawings in pen later if needed.
Each drawing should be on a separate page (5)
Think about composition- draw big and have a prominent FOCAL POINT
We will use these drawings as preliminary practice for an up coming watercolor unit.

31. Don’t do this….

33. THURSday: Meet for the bus at 8:45 in the COMMONS…
Make sure you bring your supplies when you come to the commons.
You will meet your chaperone and as soon as the busses arrive, we will board and be off!
We have very little time at Longwood, so it’s important that every is EARLY so we leave on time.
So don’t be late!!

34. You HAVE to enjoy yourselves!
Field Trip
Rules:
Walk around with a partner… not by yourself!
Check in with your chaperone! Know where to meet them and at what time.
You have to pack a lunch/snacks for the bus…
No food in the park- NO RESTUARANT
TENTATIVE: Must be back to the bus by 12:45 so we can eat lunch and depart by 1pm.
Depending on the bus driver and weather, we may be eating outside.
You HAVE to enjoy yourselves!