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Christina Brodie draws on her extensive experience as a botanical art teacher in compiling this complete course on drawing and painting plants. Clear step-by-step instructions show how to accurately render a wide range of plants and plant parts -- from flowers, fruits, and seeds through leaves, stems, bark, and roots to fungi, ferns, mosses, and seaweeds. Christina Brodie's concise text and beautiful, detailed examples illustrate techniques for various media, including pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, acrylics, and scraper board. This highly practical manual offers a complete course of instruction in basic and advanced techniques of botanical illustration, and is suitable for beginning artists and journal keepers as well as teachers and professional illustrators.

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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 Scott Copyright 2007 Booklist