Drawing and Painting Plants
Brodie's holistic, comprehensive approach blends drawing and painting techniques with botanical terminology and suggestions for gathering plant material. Beginning with the basics of classification and using scientific taxonomy as the underpinning of her instructional scheme, British author Brodie presents lessons in drawing and watercolor technique emphasizing the use of basic shapes, a special chart illustrating color mixing to create a large range of greens, and rendering flowers, fruits, seeds, leaves, stems, roots, trees, fungi, and flowerless plants such as ferns and algae via understanding their structure and function. Additional painting media include gouache, acrylics, and ink. This user-friendly guide for artists of all levels includes illustrations demonstrating techniques that include magnification and drawing to scale.Whitney ScottCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved