by Deb Shaw Dichelostemma volubile and Madia elegans. Watercolor © Joan Keesey, all rights reserved. A quick reminder to my original blog...

by Gayle Uyehara, posted by Deb Shaw Carol Govan delivered a fast-paced, exciting lecture about botany. Photo by Gayle Uyehara. Carol...

by Beth Stone, posted by Deb Shaw Laurence Pierson demonstrating her beautiful egg tempera technique. The camera/light in the foreground...

by Deb Shaw Some of our BAGSC members are lucky to stay for the post-conference workshops, but many of the rest of us have gotten home....

by Deb Shaw Tania Marien’s James White Award The ASBA announced their annual awards last night at the closing banquet. Tania Marien was...

by Beth Stone, posted by Deb Shaw The Techniques Showcase featured three artists covering a very broad range of approaches: Hillary...

posted by Deb Shaw There were some amazing portfolios on view; always fun to get right up close and personal to the work, and to be able...

Posted by Deb Shaw BAGSC members at the conference are: Beth Stone, Cristina Baltayian, Deborah Friedman, Deborah Shaw, Gayle Uyehara,...

by Deb Shaw The American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA), The Botanical Artists Guild of Southern California (BAGSC) and The...

by Deb Shaw A wonderful, talented crew of BAGSC members arrived with hammers in hand to hang the exhibition “Artists’ Favorites” at The...

by Deb Shaw with A LOT of contributing authors. Please see the contributors’ list at the end of this article. I’ll begin with two...

by Diane Daly, posted by Deb Shaw Treasurers’ student working on a beautiful watercolor of a sunflower. Photo courtesy of Bowers...

by Janice Sharp, posted by Deb Shaw Camellia japonica ‘Chandleri Elegans’, Variegated Camellia, by Akiko Enokido, watercolor on vellum, ©...

by Deb Shaw Lupinus succulentus, or Foothill Lupine, watercolor by Joan Keesey, © 2013. The Irvine Fine Arts Center is holding an opening...

by Deb Shaw The Paper Farm exhibition has been seen by more than 1,800 first grade students in Orange County including schools from Buena...

by Deb Shaw See the ASBA website and The New York Botanical Garden website for more about the exhibition. Catalogs can be ordered through...

by Deb Shaw The American Society of Botanical Artist’s (ASBA) contemporary botanical art show, entitled “Weird, Wild, & Wonderful” will...

by Patricia Van Osterhoudt (left to right) Lori Fields, Arillyn Moran-Lawrence, Cristina Baltayian, and Gayle Uyehara gather around Lee...

by Deb Shaw Getty signage and flyer announcing the “Artist-at-Work Demonstration: Botanical Drawing,” © 2013 J. Paul Getty. Used with...

by Joan Keesey Common Poppy, photo by John Keesey, © 2013 Consider the “campi fiori,” Arrayed in their natural glory. Their existence is...