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Author: Keith West Publisher: A & C Black ISBN: 9780713670059 Category : Botanical illustration Languages : en Pages : 152
Book Description
This 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.
Author: Keith West Publisher: A & C Black ISBN: 9780713670059 Category : Botanical illustration Languages : en Pages : 152
Book Description
This 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.
Author: Melissa Washburn Publisher: Quarry Books ISBN: 1631597558 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 115
Book Description
Featuring 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.
Author: Peggy Dean Publisher: Watson-Guptill ISBN: 0399582207 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
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.
Author: Christina Brodie Publisher: Herbert Press ISBN: 9781789940657 Category : Languages : en Pages : 144
Book Description
This is a botanically based (as opposed to free-form drawing) practicalmanual on how to paint a vast range of plants in watercolour and othermedia.
Author: Betty Edwards Publisher: Tarcher ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 292
Book Description
Presents a set of basic exercises designed to release creative potential and tap into the special abilities of the brain's right hemisphere.
Author: Sarah Simblet Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0756672341 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 258
Book Description
Join artist Sarah Simblet on an inspirational journey of discovery as she teaches you how to draw every type of plant. From the tiniest mosses to exotic flowers and majestic trees, this book shows how understanding botany will give your portraits of plants vibrancy and life. In Botany for the Artist, Sarah Simblet takes you on a personal tour of the kingdom of plants, encouraging you to observe them more closely and draw them more accurately. She shows how to begin with simple shapes, outline the composition, blend colors, and add highlights and other finishing touches. Complemented by beautiful photographs, Sarah's drawings reveal the structure of roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and fruits. Step-by-step drawing classes and detailed pages from Sarah's sketchbooks guide you through all the techniques that you need to draw plants successfully. Masterclasses by famous artists - from Renaissance masters to contemporary illustrators - showcase different approaches to botanical illustration over the centuries. Botany for the Artist is a visual feast, not just for anyone wishing to master drawing plants, but for gardeners, photographers, and everyone who is passionate about plants and how they are portrayed in art.
Author: Erin Lau Publisher: ISBN: 9780997401714 Category : Languages : en Pages : 41
Book Description
This beautifully drawn coloring book features illustrations of alluring gardens hand drawn by Erin Lau, a landscape designer based in Seattle, WA. This book is ideal for use with colored pencils, markers and crayons.
Author: Donald R. Kirk Publisher: ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 354
Book Description
This book describes or mentions the great bulk of the edible plants found in the western United States west of the Great Plains and in southwestern Canada and northwestern Mexico. Carefully illustrated, it helps you identify many hundreds of edible plants that may give you helpful food on a camping trip or someday save your life.
Author: Alphonso Dunn Publisher: Three Rivers Press ISBN: 9780997046533 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Pen & Ink Drawing: A Simple Guide covers the essential aspects of pen and ink drawing and more. It explores basic materials and instruments; fundamental properties of strokes and pen control; key elements of shading; and indispensable techniques for creating vibrant textures. As a bonus, a chapter is devoted to what the author refers to as, the secret Line of Balance. This book is not just written to instruct but also to inspire enthusiasts of pen and ink and drawing as well.
Author: Keith West
Author: Keith West
Author: Melissa Washburn
Author: Peggy Dean
Author: Christina Brodie
Author: Betty Edwards
Author: Sarah Simblet
Author: Keith R. West
Author: Erin Lau
Author: Donald R. Kirk
Author: Alphonso Dunn