MBG Blossoms & Bugs Drawing Workshop Announced

The Mobile Botanical Gardens (MBG) is hosting Blossoms & Bugs: Drawing and Painting Botanicals and Insects, an art workshop with Honey Dean, on Thursdays from 1 to 4 p.m. on March 5, 12, 19 and 26 and April 2 and 9. Students will work with live specimens as models and complete the class having produced several small traditional scientifically accurate representations of flowers, foliage, and insects and paintings in graphite, ink and watercolor. Students of all ages and levels of training in art are invited to participate. Art supplies for the class will be furnished by the instructor, and MBG will provide the blossoms and bugs. The fee is $240 for MBG members and $260 for nonmembers. Dean is a botanical artist and natural science illustrator who co-owned The Studio, a frame shop and gallery, with her sculptor husband, Michael Dean, and showed her work at exhibits and galleries throughout the South. She has since retired from education and her art associations but continues to paint and occasionally enters art shows. Her home in Lucedale, Mississippi, The Honeycomb, serves as her studio and gallery.