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Botanical Illustration Course with the Eden Project: Drawing and Watercolour Painting Techniques for Botanical Artists Paperback - 2008

by Rosie Martin; Meriel Thurstan


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Botanical Illustration Course - published with the Eden Project - is your personal guide to the study of botanical drawing and watercolour painting. Devised by an award-winning botanical artist who teaches at the Eden Project, this course takes you from basic drawing techniques to advanced skills required for the analysis of complex forms in watercolour. Following the syllabus of the botanical illustration course at the acclaimed Eden Project in Cornwall, this book offers you the opportunity to perfect the many techniques used to produce beautiful and informative plant portraits. Full of practical information, and with easy-to-follow exercises, the book includes: Pencil Drawing; Shapes in Nature; Plant dissection and bisection; Perspective; Use of tonal contrast; Line drawing and pencil shading; Colour and pigment mixing; Application of watercolour; Highlights and shiny surfaces; Composition and arrangement.

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  • Title Botanical Illustration Course with the Eden Project: Drawing and Watercolour Painting Techniques for Botanical Artists
  • Author Rosie Martin; Meriel Thurstan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Batsford, London
  • Date 2008-08
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780713490749 / 0713490748
  • Weight 1.28 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.84 x 8.54 x 0.38 in (27.53 x 21.69 x 0.97 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Drawing - Technique, Watercolor painting - Technique
  • Dewey Decimal Code 751.422

About the author

Rosie Martin holds a Gold Medal from the RHS for her botanical watercolour painting. She is an elected member of the Society of Botanical Artists and teaches a variety of art-based subjects, including botanical illustration in both. She has worked in fashion, ballet and theatre; her clients have included David Bowie, Anthony Caro, Karl Lagerfeld and Jean Muir, for whom she produced textiles and interior design prints. Meriel Thurstan discovered botanical illustration while working at the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall. She later became a pivotal member of the Friends team at the Eden Project, organising and running talks, visits and courses. She holds a Silver Lindley medal from the RHS for her watercolours of fungi and a Bronze medal for an exhibit of different coloured potatoes. Meriel founded the South West Society of Botanical Artists in 2006, which aims to promote and encourage botanical art to the highest standard. Her own botanical paintings hang in England, France and Australia. She lives in Somerset.
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