The Joy of Botanical Drawing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Drawing and Painting Flowers, Leaves, Fruit, and More
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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.
From the Publisher
Publisher : Watson-Guptill (April 7, 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 192 pages
ISBN-10 : 1984856715
ISBN-13 : 978-1984856715
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 8.54 x 0.58 x 11 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book beautifully illustrated with wonderful colors and appreciate its fantastic source of information for botanical drawing. The instruction is clear and easy to understand, making it a great reference for beginners, and one customer notes the excellent sequencing of tasks that builds necessary technique. They value the content, with one review describing it as a multiple courses in one book, and another mentioning it’s paced well for both beginners.
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