The Joy of Botanical Drawing

2020-04-07 Art

Author : Wendy Hollender
Release : 2020-04-07
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 723/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Joy of Botanical Drawing by : Wendy Hollender

Download or read book The Joy of Botanical Drawing written by Wendy Hollender. This book was released on 2020-04-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Botanical Illustration from Life

1900

Author : Isik Guner
Release : 1900
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 534/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Botanical Illustration from Life written by Isik Guner. This book was released on 1900. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Botanical Drawing

2007 Botanical illustration

Author : Wendy Hollender
Release : 2007
Genre : Botanical illustration
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 312/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Botanical Drawing by : Wendy Hollender

Download or read book Botanical Drawing written by Wendy Hollender. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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!

Botanical Line Drawing

2018-07-24 Art

Author : Peggy Dean
Release : 2018-07-24
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 207/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Botanical Line Drawing by : Peggy Dean

Download or read book Botanical Line Drawing written by Peggy Dean. This book was released on 2018-07-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Botanical Drawing in Color

2010-07-20 Art

Author : Wendy Hollender
Release : 2010-07-20
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 065/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Botanical Drawing in Color by : Wendy Hollender

Download or read book Botanical Drawing in Color written by Wendy Hollender. This book was released on 2010-07-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

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