Botanical Illustration in Watercolor - Hardcover

Wunderlich, Eleanor B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823005291 ISBN 13: 9780823005291

Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S., 1991

Synopsis

Watercolour has been the medium of choice for plant portrayal over many centuries. This book is intended for people who want to portray plants and flowers in watercolour with botanical accuracy. It provides detailed instruction in the materials and techniques of this art form. Beginning with a discussion of those materials specific to botanical illustration, it explains where to find plant subjects, how to design a composition that remains faithful to nature and how to draw plants, from initial blocking to final detailed drawing. In step-by-step demonstrations, the book shows how to paint fruit, vegetables, cultivated and wild flowers, mushrooms and other fungi, trees, shrubs, ferns, and vines in watercolour. It shows how to choose palette, build colour, establish shading and develop form. The book concludes with advice on matting, exhibiting and marketing finished works.

About this title

About the Author:

Eleanor B. Wunderlich, a well-known botanical illustrator, is a graduate of Parsons School of Design. She has been teaching botanical illustration at the New York Botanical Garden since 1984. Her paintings are now exhibited at Images Gallery in Briarcliff Manor, New York, and published in articles and books.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0823005291
• ISBN 13: 9780823005291
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Frick J.