This four-week course, held on Saturdays, Oct. 5 through 26, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., will offer students the opportunity to pursue the process of creating a realistic or lifelike representation of an object or a scene. It's all about how you use your tools—be it charcoal, paint, or a digital stylus—to illustrate light and shadow, texture, and color in your artwork. Learning to render allows you to add depth and dimension, turning a flat sketch into a dynamic visual that appears to pop off the page.  Rendering is a drawing skill necessary for communicating garden designs to clients. This course is the next step for gardening designers following drafting. Structured as a studio class, students will learn the softer side of drawing for design using the B range pencils, and practice illustrative renderings such as sections, elevations and plan obliques. This course will enable designers to better communicate their designs to clients. Non-professional gardeners and artists are encouraged to join this class, with either Drafting for Garden Design or equivalent coursework as a prerequisite. Taught by Tom Smith of Springfield Technical Community College.

Tom Smith teaches at Springfield Technical Community College.  His past career adventures include precision machining, HVAC ductwork fabricator, installer and apprentice service technician, and the U.S. Navy.  He also wore many 'hats' within a small landscape company as a designer, estimator, salesperson, horticulturist, and construction crew leader.