This four-week course  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.