The Joy of Botanical Drawing
The Joy of Botanical Drawing

Author: Wendy Hollender

Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Published: 2020-04-07

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1984856723

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A 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.

How to Draw and Paint Botanicals + Flowers
How to Draw and Paint Botanicals + Flowers

Author: Philip Boelter

Publisher:

Published: 2018-12

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9781790615032

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Illustrating and Painting Come Together For All Flower and Botanical Enthusiasts.From whimsical flowers to more detailed botanicals, learn how to draw and paint your favorite florals using gouache and various paint and brush techniques.Southern California artist Philip Boelter has grown a following on Instagram with his inked illustrations and time-lapse paintings of flowers, cacti, and landscapes. Through his following, he has found that his posts have inspired people to jump into art. This book is to help others find inspiration and use it as a helpful guide to begin creating their own.

Botanical Painting with Gouache
Botanical Painting with Gouache

Author: Simon Williams

Publisher: Batsford Books

Published: 2016-03-14

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1849943885

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A practical guide to using gouache in botanical painting, by a leading botanical painter. Gouache is an opaque water-based medium, often called body colour, that produces crisp and vibrant paintings, and is becoming increasingly popular in botanical painting. Leading botanical painter, Simon Williams, specializes in painting in gouache and this is his first book. Botanical Painting in Gouache is full of practical advice on all aspects of using the exciting medium of gouache and contains many step-by-step demonstration paintings. In addition to the sumptuous flower paintings there are also sections on painting butterflies, birds and exotic and unusual plants from the rainforest.

Botanical Drawing in Color
Botanical Drawing in Color

Author: Wendy Hollender

Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Published: 2010-07-20

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0823007065

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A 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

New Botanical Painting
New Botanical Painting

Author: Harriet de Winton

Publisher: Ilex Press

Published: 2019-10-10

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1781577528

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Award-winning artist Harriet de Winton shows you how to create contemporary watercolour artworks to treasure and share. Through more than 30 step-by-step projects, discover how to paint individual flowers and foliage, as well as beautiful botanical compositions. Use your new skills to make art for your wall, unique cards, invitations, or simply paint for pleasure.

Botanical Drawing
Botanical Drawing

Author: Wendy Hollender

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780989343312

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"Botanical Drawing, A Beginner's Guide" and Botanical Drawing Sketchbooks" use a unique spiral binding that allows you to open the book to add and remove paper. You can purchase re-fills of Legion Stonehenge Aqua 140 lb. hot pressed water color paper to use with both books.Once you have practiced in the Beginner's Guide with the paper in the book, I recommend you purchase the hot pressed watercolor paper to use for the color exercises. You can put the watercolor paper right inside the book and re-do the exercises on the good paper!In the Sketchbooks you can take out finished work and put in new blank paper to continue re-using the sketchbook without having to get a new sketchbook or cut your finished art out of this book. You can also take out the sketch pages to display and then return them to the book!

Drawing and Painting Botanicals for Artists
Drawing and Painting Botanicals for Artists

Author: Karen Kluglein

Publisher: Rockport Publishers

Published: 2020-06-09

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1631598570

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Originally 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.

Drawing and Painting Beautiful Flowers
Drawing and Painting Beautiful Flowers

Author: Kyehyun Park

Publisher:

Published: 2022-06-14

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 0760373302

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Learn how to draw beautiful flowers and add breathtaking watercolor with the easy step-by-step instructions in Drawing and Painting Beautiful Flowers.

Botanical Line Drawing
Botanical Line Drawing

Author: Peggy Dean

Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Published: 2018-07-24

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0399582207

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From the artist behind the popular Pigeon Letters website, an easy, no-skills-necessary guide to drawing flowers, leaves, and cacti with 200 step-by-step prompts. Line drawing is an easy-to-master art form featuring illustrative, doodle-like designs. It's used widely among artists of many types with both fine and bold lines, creating different variations. Botanical Line Drawing teaches you how to start with the simplest doodles, building into more elaborate, delicate illustrations. This book focuses on the extremely popular subject matter of the natural world and includes flowers, leaves, succulents, houseplants, trees, branches, mushrooms, and more. These simple line drawings will allow you to branch out and have fun with your own personal style, as well as inspire you to add flourishes to other projects.

Watercolor Botanicals
Watercolor Botanicals

Author: Eunice Sun

Publisher: Union Square & Co.

Published: 2021-11-30

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1454711051

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Learn to paint gorgeous watercolor flowers, houseplants, and arrangements with this inspiring guide that includes 30 step-by-step tutorials. Filled with lessons and daily exercises, this fun introduction to watercolor teaches beginner artists how to create their own botanical-inspired paintings. It covers everything from selecting paper, paint, and brushes to choosing a palette, blending colors, and adding dimension and detail. Once you’ve mastered the essential techniques, you’ll learn to paint cacti, popular houseplants, and individual flowers, and see how to combine these components into more complex compositions, including frames, wreaths, and colorful bouquets. Step-by-step tutorials, along with artist Eunice Sun’s expressive artwork, provides all the guidance and inspiration you’ll need to render small motifs, decorate a card, paint a charming still life, and more.