Botanical Illustration from Life
Author: Isik Guner
Publisher: Search Press Limited
Published: 1900
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1800930534
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How to Draw Plants
Author: Keith West
Publisher: A & C Black
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780713670059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive and authoritative handbook is for all those who want to portray plants and flowers with botanical accuracy. In it the author gives detailed advice on working in pencil, pen, scraper board, watercolour, acrylics and gouache; on building up a painting or drawing by stages; on taking measurements and understanding plant structure; on collecting, handling and preserving plant material.
Drawing and Painting Botanicals for Artists
Author: Karen Kluglein
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Published: 2020-06-09
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 1631598570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally developed in the 18th century as a visual supplement to botanical nomenclature, botanical illustration and art uniquely fuse art and science by documenting the parts, details, and life cycles of plant species. In Drawing and Painting Botanicals for Artists, eminent botanical artist and veteran workshop instructor Karen Kluglein reveals her secrets for rendering leaves, flowers, berries, and branches both accurately and beautifully. The book begins with a brief history of the art form, followed by guidance on developing observational skills for this genre, key botanical terms and concepts, and the differences among botanical illustration, botanical art, and flower painting. The chapters that follow offer detailed guidance and demonstrations for drawing and painting botanicals in a variety of mediums: Drawing. Explore loose gestural drawing, precise measuring and rendering, and working from photographs with graphite, colored pencil, finepoint markers, pen and ink, and silverpoint. Painting. Master color mixing, washes, layering, gradations, values, and adding details in watercolor, gouache, and acrylic, plus guidance on adding “personality” to your work and knowing when a painting is done. Drawing and Painting Botanicals for Artists shows artists at all skill levels how to translate careful observations into stunning works of art.
The Joy of Botanical Drawing
Author: Wendy Hollender
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Published: 2020-04-07
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1984856723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA gorgeous, easy-to-follow, and inspiring guide to stunningly realistic botanical drawing that covers everything you need to draw our natural world. Achieve amazingly realistic and vibrant botanical illustrations, from flowers so dazzling you feel as if you might be able to smell them, to tomatoes that look as if they've just been picked from the garden. Wendy Hollender is known for her vivid, detailed, and inspiring illustrations and in The Joy of Botanical Drawing, she helps you take your art to the next level by sharing her perfected techniques through short lessons that start simple, then build on the basics with easy-to-use and clear step-by-step illustrations. Using colored pencils and watercolor pencils, Hollender shows you how to accomplish scientifically accurate botanical portraits of a spiraling pine cone, a spiky chestnut, a fuchsia-tined radish, a graceful morning glory, and many more. From colorful leaves to delicate petals to textured bark and slender stems, The Joy of Botanical Drawing will give you the skills to complete lifelike drawings while also enjoying nature and the mindfulness of a regular drawing practice.
Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants
Author: Ms. Melissa Washburn
Publisher: Quarry Books
Published: 2019-06-25
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1631597558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeaturing 600+ sketches depicting a vast array of beautiful botanicals, floral forms, plant structures, and more, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants is a must-have visual reference book for student artists, botanical illustrators, urban sketchers, and anyone seeking to improve their realistic drawing skills. Designed as a contemporary, step-by-stepguidebook for artists who are learning to draw botanical forms, Draw Like An Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants features an inclusive array of florals, ferns, succulents, and more, all shown from a variety of perspectives. Each set of illustrations takes you from beginning sketch lines to a finished drawing. Author Melissa Washburn is a skilled illustrator whose clear and elegant drawing style will make this a go-to sourcebook for years to come.
Drawing and Painting Beautiful Flowers
Author: Kyehyun Park
Publisher:
Published: 2022-06-14
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 0760373302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn how to draw beautiful flowers and add breathtaking watercolor with the easy step-by-step instructions in Drawing and Painting Beautiful Flowers.
Botany for the Artist
Author: Sarah Simblet
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Published: 2010-02
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1405332271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Botany for the Artist Sarah Simblet makes drawings of every type of plant, from the tiniest mosses to sumptuous flowers and trees, and shows how understnding botany helps you to create vibrant, realistic drawings. Complemented by beautiful photographic plant portraits, Sarah's exquisite drawings illustrate the structure of roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and fruits. Drawing classes and studies guide you through the skills needed to capture plants succesfully and vivid examples of work - from Renaissance masters to contemporary illustrators - reveal how botanical artists have portrayed plants over the centuries. A visually stunning guide, Botany for the Artist is not only for anyone wishing to master the art of drawing plants, but for all those passionate about plants and how they are portrayed in art.
Drawing and Painting Plants
Author: Christina Brodie
Publisher: Herbert Press
Published: 2021-05-27
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781789940657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a botanically based (as opposed to free-form drawing) practicalmanual on how to paint a vast range of plants in watercolour and othermedia.
Illustrating Nature
Author: Dorothea Barlowe
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-12-13
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0486155234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA pair of professional artists offers valuable suggestions for realistic portrayals of flowers, animals, and other natural subjects. Detailed, step-by-step demonstrations use watercolors, oils, pencil, and other media. Over 400 illustrations.
Botanical Drawing in Color
Author: Wendy Hollender
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Published: 2010-07-20
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0823007065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA thorough immersion into the world of scientifically accurate, three-dimensional, and artistically rendered natural botanical illustration. The step-by-step instructions in this invaluable guide, written by one of the nation’s leading experts in the field, Wendy Hollender, will grow your artistic ability, whether you’re just broaching this unique skill or are already an expert. Each lesson in the book increases in complexity to build your skill set in a clear, concise, and accessible way. With a focus on the natural world through the botanical life-cycle, each project is not only a technical study, but a beautiful piece of artwork in and of itself. In this book, you will learn: • Single light source toning technique • Principles of perspective for drawing flowers • The fundamentals of plant anatomy • Colored pencil techniques and color theory of the natural world
