The Joy of Botanical Drawing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Drawing and Painting Flowers, Leaves, Fruit, and More
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The Joy of Botanical Drawing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Drawing and Painting Flowers, Leaves, Fruit, and More A gorgeous, easy-to-follow and inspiring guide to stunningly realistic botanical drawing that covers everything you need to draw our natural world. Achieve amazingly realistic and vibrant botanical illustrations, from flowers so dazzling you feel as if you might be able to smell them, to tomatoes that look as if they've just been picked from the garden. Wendy Hollender is known for her vivid, detailed and inspiring illustrations and in The Joy of Botanical Drawing, she helps you take your art to the next level by sharing her perfected techniques through short lessons that start simple, then build on the basics with easy-to-use and clear step-by-step illustrations. Contents includes: Understanding light Three-dimensional form Adding tone Adding colour Using coloured pencils and watercolour pencils, Hollender shows you how to accomplish scientifically accurate botanical portraits of a spiralling pine cone, a spiky chestnut, a fuchsia-tined radish, a graceful morning glory and many more. From colourful leaves to delicate petals to textured bark and slender stems, The Joy of Botanical Drawing will give you the skills to complete lifelike drawings while also enjoying nature and the mindfulness of a regular drawing practice. Review: A wonderful book full of inspiring pictures and instruction - I absolutely love this book! I have just started drawing and have bought a few other botanical instruction books, but this was by far the best. It is full of detailed instructions that are incredibly clear and take you right from the basics of drawing to more complex skills. I love the way it is designed - with the initial chapters giving core skills, and then the later chapters being ones that can be dipped in and out of. The drawings themselves are wonderful, and are so inspiring! The book is so well put together and is itself a lovely work of art! Review: Great for beginners, or those who wish to improve their art. - A very detailed and useful book.
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| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,227 Reviews |
M**N
A wonderful book full of inspiring pictures and instruction
I absolutely love this book! I have just started drawing and have bought a few other botanical instruction books, but this was by far the best. It is full of detailed instructions that are incredibly clear and take you right from the basics of drawing to more complex skills. I love the way it is designed - with the initial chapters giving core skills, and then the later chapters being ones that can be dipped in and out of. The drawings themselves are wonderful, and are so inspiring! The book is so well put together and is itself a lovely work of art!
R**T
Great for beginners, or those who wish to improve their art.
A very detailed and useful book.
A**T
Open the door, an Invitation to learn botanical-illustration techniques.
This book is outstanding, full of beautiful illustrations, step by step drawing exercises, helping you absorb the skills and develop the confidence to draw. Observing natures quiet beauty, form and colour.
A**R
Very well illustrated
Lovely illustrations, provides info on equipment, light source and basic drawing techniques. perspective, tones and highlights used in botanical drawings as well as drawing and painting leaves,fruit,flowers etc where you can dip in and out of. Really makes you look carefully at the structure.
L**A
Goid
Good book
H**H
Lovely book
Enjoying this book and trying out my Fabre Castell pencils. This author is very talented, beautiful paintings - recommend you look at her website or some of her tutorials on you tube.
A**R
Inspirational and very clear detailed instructions
I really liked the details which helped to develop techniques and the use of different media. Beautifully illustrated. Inspirational and I would strongly recommend it.
M**S
One of the best informative
I have been painting in all mediums for over 50years, this book shows you as per item, not just a finished painting and a lot of talk , best by so far
K**R
Book review
An impressive book with clear, concise applications on how best to draw botanical specimens.
M**Z
In-depth guide
Amazing illustrations and extensive information :)
S**E
Great for beginners
Good book just to get you started with line drawing. It's not complex and anybody can do botanical line pieces after finishing this.
B**B
très beau parfait
magnifique, je ne regrette pas très beau, en plus d'un livre de dessin, la qualité du papier, et les dessins font un livre a part entière. j'aimerai bien d'autre d'aussi grande qualité. c'est rare. je recommande. vous ne serez pas déçu.
A**A
Precioso y muy didáctico
Ejercicios explicados paso a paso, empezando por las nociones más básicas, con detalladas ilustraciones. Es especialmente aconsejable si usas los lápices de colores y acuarelables de Faber Castell, que son los que la autora utiliza y recomienda, ya que resultan idóneos para su técnica, consistente en superponer capas de Albrecht Dürer y Polychromos, que combinan maravillosamente. Yo lo he probado y me encanta el resultado. El dibujo es un original mío realizado del natural con las técnicas aprendidas en este libro.
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