The Botanical Art Files Composition: The Design Guide for Botanical Artists: Volume 1 - Softcover

Parkinson, Rita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0992562422 ISBN 13: 9780992562427

Publisher: Rita Parkinson, 2015

This essential book is an inspiring, practical guide for botanical artists to develop the all important skills of composition.It looks beyond the essential technical skills to focus on this often neglected aspect.The book translates the essential visual skills that professional illustrators follow into the specific area of botanical subjects and the unique problems they involve. The guide will help you to understand and master the process of composition and learn how to create for yourself a sequence of stages that can elevate your work to a new level. It will help you to fully comprehend the underlying principles that all great works of art are structured around and translate them into an easy to understand working method for you to internalize and incorporate into your practice. After reading this book you will know: if negative space is really so important? Do I always need a focal point? What exactly is the Golden section and is it relevant today? Where does visual balance come into all of this? and much more.....

About the Author:

Rita Parkinson is a well-known and top exponent of this genre. She studied at S Martins School of Art in London. She is a freelance artist and illustrator. She holds a Gold medal from The Royal Horticultural Society.London and has been featured exhibitions at the Hunt Institute of Botanical Documentation. Carnegie-Mellon university. The Smithsonian Institute. Wash.DC. Kew Gardens. The New York Botanic Garden. The Sydney Botanic Garden and many more. Her works hang in collections in the U.S.A, the U.K, Australia, New Zealand, Holland, Switzerland. This book has evolved out of the teaching program at the Geelong Botanic Gardens. Australia with fellow illustrator Dolores Sk-Malloni

• Publisher: Rita Parkinson
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0992562422
• ISBN 13: 9780992562427
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 122
• Illustrator: Parkinson Rita, Sk-Malloni Dolores