Author: Vere Temple Publisher: ISBN: 9781616461966 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 68
Book Description
Vere Temple's guide to drawing wild flowers discusses the best methods for sketching them in their spring and summer varieties, along with the autumn berries and seedpods. Temple encourages the artist to look for the rhythm and movement in the lines and curves of the flower. "Passionate interest is essential to the production of good drawings." This is a reprint of the 1942 title.
Author: Penny Brown Publisher: Search Press ISBN: 9781844488797 Category : Drawing Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
"With a stunning selection of 28 popular flowers, simple step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and a helpful, two-color teaching method, this book is a fantastic introduction to drawing flowers from the garden. Roses, lilies, anemones, clematis, and apple blossom are just a few of the blooms, with many more tempting drawings to choose from. Artists are taught how to build beautiful pictures from easy beginnings, using circles, triangles, squares, and ovals as building blocks. Each flower is shown in full color, offering inspiration to beginners who want to learn from simple beginnings, and to more experienced artists seeking new ways of working and new ideas."--Amazon.com
Author: Chris Thorogood Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew ISBN: 9781842466964 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
The Algarve region of southern Portugal is an area of immense botanical importance with numerous endemic and rare species. It is also one of the most popular holiday destinations in Europe, where it sees more than seven million tourists per year. Scientists and sightseers alike are drawn to the lovely flowers that dot the landscape. This is one of the few comprehensive identification guides that caters to both kinds of visitors, and the first edition has been a best-seller. This second edition is fully updated with new species and new findings. Information is provided on where and when to see plants with information on their habitat and vegetation types. Rare and unusual plants of the region are highlighted, including orchids and parasitic plants. The more than one thousand descriptions are accompanied throughout with over 650 stunning color photographs, 780 line drawings, and distribution maps.
Author: Jennifer A. Bauer Publisher: The Overmountain Press ISBN: 9781570723179 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
The outdoors come to life in this collection of stories, games, crafts, investigations, and hands-on activities meant to accompany excursions into the fields, forests, and wetlands of southern Appalachia. The region’s rich natural diversity is highlighted, from its low-elevation coves to its highland ridges and balds. Because the southern Appalachian Mountains provide diverse habitats for plants and animals, every visit presents a new adventure. With an emphasis on the importance of a good conservation ethic along with suggestions on how to get involved in community conservation efforts, explorers of all ages can learn about topics such as plants, animals, microscopic life, life after dark, and environmental awareness.
Author: Lewis Carroll Publisher: The Floating Press ISBN: 1877527815 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 112
Book Description
Alice in Wonderland (also known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), from 1865, is the peculiar and imaginative tale of a girl who falls down a rabbit-hole into a bizarre world of eccentric and unusual creatures. Lewis Carroll's prominent example of the genre of "literary nonsense" has endured in popularity with its clever way of playing with logic and a narrative structure that has influence generations of fiction writing.
Author: Jerry Pallotta Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing ISBN: 088106453X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 35
Book Description
Roses are red, Violets are blue... And they're only two of the flowers in this book of bright colors and delightful information. Young readers will be fascinated to find out what flower can be used to make a doll, which flower flavors tea, and which flower farmers feed to chickens. Author Jerry Pallotta and illustrator Leslie Evans have collaborated to produce a stunning bouquet of words and pictures about the world of flowers–one of nature's most beautiful gifts.
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