Spring Sketching at the California Botanic Garden

In this class, Students will be guided through various sketching exercises to develop curiosity for nature’s diversity of forms and practice detailed observation. Together, we’ll look closely at what’s happening in the Southern California spring landscape and share what we observe through our art making.

Date: June 6

Location: Claremont Botanic Garden 

Time: 11:15am-1:00pm

Age: 8+

Cost: $29 per artist, sketchbook and drawing materials will be provided

No experience necessary

Drop-off event, or parents are welcome to join, or purchase a ticket to also participate in the art activity.

Each person’s admission to the garden will need to be paid at the kiosk upon arrival. With this ticket, you can stay for the day to enjoy the garden and continue practicing the techniques that you learned in class!

Children Admission - $5

Adult Admission - $15

Limited spots available, so secure yours today! 

WHO IS CARLY LAKE?

Carly Lake’s first love is drawing. She creates vibrant watercolor and digital illustrations for books and print that are whimsical, surreal, and nature-centric. Her debut picture book, Waa’aka The Bird Who Fell in Love With the Sun (Heyday Books), follows the origin story of how the sun got up into the sky, by Tongva author and artist, Cindi Alvitre. Carly enjoys working in spaces where her passion for storytelling is nurtured, including storyboarding, editorial illustration, public art, and art education.

Her practice with natural dyes began in 2016 and has since been at the core of her fiber artwork. The colors in her woven and quilted textiles are the expression of dyes from her local landscape of the Los Angeles basin. She also explores traditional dyes from across the globe, seeing both unique beauty and universality in these ethnobotanical histories. Through her natural dye classes, Carly aims to share the ecological relationships that shape our environment and contemplate these connections with others.

She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration and minor in Native American Cultures from California State University at Long Beach. Carly currently lives near the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California.

Notes:

-Charter funds accepted. Checkout using "manual checkout" as the payment option, and reach out to your charter school for a purchase order.

-No refunds available

-Class could be rescheduled if it is raining