Forester-Artist Bruce Lyndon Cunningham and professor, Dr. Elray S. Nixon, have published the third edition of Trees, Shrubs & Woody Vines of East Texas. The revised edition of this field manual contains keys and illustrations to over 300 woody plant species and an illustrated glossary of plant structures containing over 200 terms. To order your [...]
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Trees, Shrubs & Woody Vines of East Texas
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Reference, Special Announcements, tagged Plants, shrubs, Texas, trees, vines on May 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Draw, Paint, Learn: Flora of Mexico’s Central Highlands
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, natural science illustration, tagged art, Mexico, Michoacan, Plants, travel on May 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Looking for adventure? See what’s new at Classes Near You > Mexico! Amelia Hoopes Amelia is the Director of Cylburn Nature Science Camp in Baltimore and teaches botanical art at Cylburn Arboretum. Learn more about Amelia and view examples of her work in the ASBA Member Gallery. Botanical Art in Zirahuen June 20 – July [...]
The Need for Botany Instruction
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, tagged art, botany, Plants on May 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Today, guest Liz Leech shares with us the moment she realized botany classes for artists were necessary. She says she knew botany classes would be helpful when… A couple of fellow students on the diploma course produced wonderful paintings marred by obvious botanical errors (e.g. one had put in a leaf to make the composition [...]
What don’t people know about plants?
Posted in botanical art, Education, general botany, Learning Opportunities, tagged botany, Plants, public, teaching & learning on May 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I asked this month’s featured guest, Liz Leech, to identify the aspect of plant biology she finds to be most unfamiliar to the public. She replied… The most unfamiliar aspect of plant biology, and the greatest barrier, seems to me to be the ability to distinguish plant characteristics and therefore to differentiate between plants within [...]
‘Botany for Artists’ Introduces Artists to the Wonderful World of Plants
Posted in botanical art, Education, general botany, tagged art, botany, Plants, teaching & learning on May 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Botanist and botanical artist, Lizabeth Leech, has written a comprehensive introduction to botany for both artists and non-artists alike. In Botany for Artists, Liz does more than simply rattle off facts about plants. She teaches readers how to observe and record information about the plant specimens before them, as well as any fungi or lichen [...]
New Exhibitions Celebrate Books, Plants, Drawing
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Drawing, Education, sketchbook, tagged art exhibition, art gallery, book arts, drawing, Plants on May 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Many new exhibitions have been added to the Exhibits to Visit section. So many in fact, it is necessary to create an announcement to bring attention to all of them. Some exhibitions are already open and others will open this week, such as the exhibition at the Northbrook Public Library in Northbrook, IL featuring the [...]
Edible Plants Focus of New Botanical Art Exhibition
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Education, Special Announcements, Special Events, tagged art gallery, colored pencil, Florida, graphite, Plants, silverpoint, Watercolor on April 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Edible Plants Illustrated Florida Society of Botanical Artists Venice Art Center Venice, Florida April 9 – May 3, 2012 The Florida Society of Botanical Artists invite you to their new exhibition! Botanical art is enjoying a renaissance and, although it often depicts far-flung marvels of the botanical world, this juried exhibition of fifteen contemporary practitioners [...]
Learn Botanical Illustration from a Natural Science Perspective
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Education, Learning Opportunities, natural science illustration, tagged Colorado, drawing, natural history, Oregon, Plants, washington on April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Observe and draw local flora while learning plant classification and identification. See what’s new in the Classes Near You sections for Washington, Oregon and Colorado. Quinn Fitzpatrick www.quinnfitzpatrick.com Quinn is an artist, a musician, and a graduate of the Natural Science Illustration Program at the University of Washington. His specialties include wild cats, raptors, wild [...]
Measuring Attitudes Towards Plants
Posted in Education, gardening, general botany, tagged environmental education, gardening, Plants, teaching & learning on March 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The quest to understand the attitudes people have towards plants gets a statistical boost from biologists Jana Fancovicova and Pavol Prokop in Development and Initial Psychomatic Assessment of the Plant Attitudes Questionnaire. This study marks the first attempt to systematically evaluate the attitudes students have towards plants (Fancovicova and Prokop, 2010). Fancovicova and Prokop (2010) [...]
Bringing Plants to the People
Posted in botanical art, botanical illustration, Education, general botany, natural science illustration, tagged botany, education, Plants, teaching & learning on March 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
By Carol Gracie From the time I was a child, plants have always interested me, first for their beautiful flowers, but then because I would always notice something interesting happening on or near the flowers: insects visiting them (sometimes eating them!), other insects mating on them (rather risqué for a 10-year-old), colors or shapes changing; [...]
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