The Gardening and Trees Unit of the Royal Botanical Garden (RJB) of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) has organized three training courses within its ‘Salón del Prado 2023’ program. Two of these courses will be held next November and the third, dedicated to wood, has been planned for December.
The first of these courses is dedicated to watercolor, it will be taught by the artist and teacher Társila Jiménez on Saturday, November 4, lasting three hours. Focused on autumn, participants in this course-workshop will work on observation and planning when painting a watercolor sketch. Next they will choose a motif to paint such as a tree, some flowers, one of the paths in the Garden…, and, as a note, it will be solved.
The second of the courses organized within the ‘Salón del Prado 2023’ program is dedicated to pruning urban trees, with theoretical classes in the educational classroom of the Royal Botanical Garden and outings to the Garden and its surroundings. The teaching staff is made up of Ignacio Ruiz del Arbol and Francisco José Minguela. Both teach theoretical and practical pruning classes at the workshop school of the Royal Botanical Garden. With the students, they carry out conservation work on the historic grove of the RJB and, likewise, they have carried out conservation work in other gardens and spaces such as the Royal Astronomical Observatory and the pine forest of the Torroja-CSIC Institute. The course will take place on November 16, 17 and 18, 2023.
All the information on the third course, dedicated to wood, will be offered in the near future, although the Gardening and Trees Unit of the RJB, where this training program is organized, has announced that it will be taught in December.
