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How to Draw Plants: The Techniques of Botanical Illustration (Art Practical)

How to Draw Plants: The Techniques of Botanical Illustration (Art Practical)

by KeithWest (Author), WilfridBlunt (Introduction)

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    Paperback 2004

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Synopsis

This comprehensive and authoritative handbook is for all those who want to portray plants and flowers with botanical accuracy. In it the author gives detailed advice on working in pencil, pen, scraper board, watercolour, acrylics and gouache; on building up a painting or drawing by stages; on taking measurements and understanding plant structure; on collecting, handling and preserving plant material.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 152
 Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Published: 17 May 2004
ISBN 10: 0713670053
ISBN 13: 9780713670059
Book Overview: classic book in the field author well-known authority endorsed by the Natural History Museum in London

Author Bio
Keith West was formerly Art Lecturer at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch and for 20 years Botanical Artist for the Botany Division of the Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research in NZ. He is also the author of Painting Plant Portraits.