Botanical Illustrator's Handbook epub

Botanical Illustrator's Handbook

By Sally Pinhey

Published by Crowood Press in 2014-Epub

Description
The Botanical Illustrator's Handbook takes a closer look at how to accurately portray the riches of the botanical world. It tackles and explains many of the difficulties that artists encounter so they can extend and expand their choice of subject matter. Written by a respected artist and drawing on her wealth of experience, it offers new insights and a fresh approach to the wonders of botanical illustration.Topics covered include: advice on the labeling and quality of paper, and choice of pencils, paints and brushes; techniques for the mixing and handling of greens; chapters on magnification, managing detail and using scale bars; instructions for using perspective techniques, and painting complex structures such as pine cones and umbel lifers, and tricky details such as hairs. Full of advice on labeling, quality of paper, artist materials and mixing techniques and superbly illustrated with 160 color illustrations