El placer del dibujo botánico

An inspiring and easy-to-follow guide, with everything you need to sketch our natural world. Perfect for learning how to create stunningly realistic and vibrant botanical illustrations, from flowers you can almost smell, to tomatoes that look fresh from the garden. Known for her vivid and precise illustrations, Wendy Hollender shares her refined techniques to help both beginners in their beginning works and experts bent on taking their skills to the next level, through short step-by-step lessons and detailed illustrations, capable of guide you in using colored pencils and watercolor to bring a botanical subject to full life. In these pages, she'll learn how to achieve scientifically accurate portraits of a pine cone, a spiked chestnut, a fuchsia-hued radish, or elegant morning glory, and many more fruits, flowers, stems, and leaves. A very complete treasure for anyone interested in the joy and luminosity of botanical drawing. With its detailed study of the colorful leaves, delicate petals, bark textures, and slender stems, this distinctive book will equip you with the skills to create highly realistic works, while enjoying nature and a practical awareness. regular art of drawing.