NEW! OFFSITE Abstracting Denver Botanic Gardens: Sketching

NEW! OFFSITE Abstracting Denver Botanic Gardens: Sketching

Adult Course | Registration opens 6/4/2024 7:00 AM MDT

1007 York St. Denver, CO 80206 United States

TBD

All

7/28/2024-8/4/2024

10:00 AM-1:00 PM MDT on Sun

$111.00

$94.35

Join Christian Dore as we experience and explore the wonder of Denver Botanic Gardens. This sketching class will dissect and transform this wonderful place into your sketch book through simple shapes and forms.  

  • Great opportunity to explore Christian's theory and create beautiful sketches based on the plants and surrounding environment at Denver Botanic Gardens.  
  • Sketchbook and HB Pencil

Born in Kent, England in 1970, Christian Dore spent most of his childhood living abroad. At the age of 13, he returned home to settle in the small village of Shorne in Kent. At 18 years of age he was accepted into the Kent Institute of Art and Design before continuing his education at the prestigious Bournemouthe and Poole College of Art. His career began as a motion graphic artist for the BBC as well as MTV and Nickelodeon. After accepting a designer's position in Colorado, it was there that his artwork truly flourished. After moving to the Colorado foothills, it was here that Dore's work evolved into the work that is owned in private collections throughout the world. Dore's work explores the impressions of the lush environment around him. He takes the expressive qualities of color and mixes them with a somewhat whimsical narrative to capture his feelings. Dore's flurry of abstract forms are by no means frenetic and each painting manages to convey a serene moment in time, a tranquil calm. The relentless build-up of texture is intentional to convey that of sound and movement whilst meshing nature into his own distinctive style.