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Drawing and Painting Plants
Christina Brodie draws on her extensive experience as a botanical art teacher in compiling this complete course on drawing and painting plants. Clear step-by-step instructions show how to accurately render a wide range of plants and plant parts — from flowers, fruits, and seeds through leaves, stems, bark, and roots to fungi, ferns, mosses, and seaweeds. Christina Brodie's concise text and beautiful, detailed examples illustrate techniques for various media, including pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, acrylics, and scraper board. This highly practical manual offers a complete course of instruction in basic and advanced techniques of botanical illustration, and is suitable for beginning artists and journal keepers as well as teachers and professional illustrators.
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144 pages, Paperback
First published October 15, 2006
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March 9, 2020
Fab book, I don't know why it got bad reviews on here, but perhaps only because the average Goodreads reader lacks literacy when compared to your average Amazon reader.
With that in mind, I'd say that if you don't like complexity of drawing and technical terms, if you like everything very, very simple, then this book is not for you. If on the other hand you do like to challenge yourself (and typical readers generally either "do" or "don't" get this book), then you will find it an inspiring classic and welcome addition to your library.
This richly illustrated book, which took 3 years and a lot of love and labour to complete, covers a wide range of media (watercolour, gouache, pen and ink, acrylic, scraperboard) and botanical nomenclature/ context of plants in great detail. There is even a section on microscope work for those who are so inclined and willing to put the effort in. It provides you with all you need to win a Gold Medal from the RHS.
I know the approach of this book is not the fashion these days (as in, everything nowadays is very shallow), but I expect there will come a time when we are all dead, and when the Wheel of Fortune turns full circle. If you don't like it, you don't have to buy it, and you're probably a bit of a flake anyway!
With that in mind, I'd say that if you don't like complexity of drawing and technical terms, if you like everything very, very simple, then this book is not for you. If on the other hand you do like to challenge yourself (and typical readers generally either "do" or "don't" get this book), then you will find it an inspiring classic and welcome addition to your library.
This richly illustrated book, which took 3 years and a lot of love and labour to complete, covers a wide range of media (watercolour, gouache, pen and ink, acrylic, scraperboard) and botanical nomenclature/ context of plants in great detail. There is even a section on microscope work for those who are so inclined and willing to put the effort in. It provides you with all you need to win a Gold Medal from the RHS.
I know the approach of this book is not the fashion these days (as in, everything nowadays is very shallow), but I expect there will come a time when we are all dead, and when the Wheel of Fortune turns full circle. If you don't like it, you don't have to buy it, and you're probably a bit of a flake anyway!
April 25, 2021
Far more elaborate than my needs but very detailed ideas
February 18, 2016
more realistic depictions of nature.
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