I am drawn to botanical illustration for the information I can learn from the carefully crafted stories that botanical illustrators tell through their drawings. I appreciate when an illustrator teaches me something new and directs my attention towards something I have never noticed. Because I like looking for new information in an illustration, the plants [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Real Life: Choosing a Specimen
Posted in Real Life Series, Sketching & Journaling, Special Articles & Interviews, tagged artistic process, botanical art, botanical illustration, Dorstenia, everyday art, extracurricular artists, garden journal, Moraceae, nature journal, Plants, Real Life, sketchbook on December 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Botanical Illustration in Real Life
Posted in Education, Real Life Series, Sketching & Journaling, Special Articles & Interviews, tagged artistic process, botanical art, botanical illustration, everyday art, extracurricular artists, garden journal, nature journal, Plants, procrastination, Real Life, sketchbook on December 11, 2007 | No Comments »
Very few people can claim to be a fully-employed botanical artist or illustrator. For most of us, capturing plants on paper remains an extracurricular activity. And of all the extracurricular activities in our lives, botanical illustration usually happens only if we remember to think about it.
This new blog series is for the “extracurricular artist.” If [...]
