How to Draw Plants: Techniques of Botanical Illustration (Draw Books)

Keith West

ISBN 10: 0906969786 / ISBN 13: 9780906969786

Published by NULL, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How to Draw Plants: Techniques of Botanical Illustration (Draw Books)
• Publisher: NULL
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0906969786
• ISBN 13: 9780906969786
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 480 grams

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Keith West was formerly Art Lecturer at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch and for 20 years Botanical Artist for the Botany Division of the Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research in NZ. He is also the author of Painting Plant Portraits.