Vegetable Vision: Workshop with Emma Roulette 

28.09, Saturday

10:00 – 12:00 

Credo Bonum Gallery

Language: English

Emma Roulette, best known for her illustrations for The New Yorker magazine, is coming to Sofia for a workshop about vegetable vision.

Emma Roulette is an illustrator and comic artist from Florida, USA, and now lives in Barcelona, Spain. She studied Spanish and entomology at the University of Florida and has worked in various labs studying bees, wasps, spiders, moths, and butterflies. Her background in biology and scientific illustration is evident in her work which is full of biogeographical details. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, as well as advertising campaigns for Chobani yogurt and Away luggage. She is currently working on her first graphic novel.

Vegetable Vision

We will work with real plant specimens to explore the basics of plant identification and scientific illustration, then learn a creative way to draw biodiversity. These are tools that we can use to begin to identify the plant species that surround us, so that Nature goes from a big green blur to a vivid puzzle of biodiversity composed of individual species with their different morphologies. 

Who can participate:

• Teens/adults with some or lots of drawing experience, designers, entrepreneurs of visual self-expression, all curious and lovers of bold and well-crafted stories in drawings, and an interest in professional editorial illustration. 

The workshop is free, but to participate, fill out the registration form here

What should you prepare?

• Materials: Paper (a4 and a5 sheets), pencils, pens, markers, colored pencils. Students can bring their own drawing materials if they want.

The workshop is a part of the project The Sofianer.  

The imaginary magazine The Sofianer as a tribute to the cult covers of The New Yorker magazine. The project aims to celebrate our love for Sofia, to show its bizarre, funny or absurd sides, to give a poetic or unexpected look at the present day, to reveal our dreams for the future and to initiate a public debate about what city we (want to) live in. The initiative is realized by the Credo Bonum Foundation and Multi Kulti Collective. The project is realized with the financial support of the US Embassy in Bulgaria and  Mastercard.