FA:: How to Draw Plants by Keith West, 1983 HB/DJ

How to Draw Plants
The Techniques of Botanical Illustration
by Keith West

This comprehensive and authoritative handbook is intended for people who
want to portray plants and flowers with botanical accuracy. It is for
artists seeking to extend their range, students of illustration wholly or
partly devoted to botanical subjects, or amateurs with an interest in botany
and natural history who want to record flowers that have given them
pleasure. The author, an experienced botanical artist, gives detailed advice
on working in pencil, pen, scraperboard, watercolor and gouache, and
acrylics; on building up a drawing or painting by stages; on taking
measurements and understanding plant structure; on collecting, handling and
preserving plant material; and on the use of the and lens and dissecting
microscope. The accurate observation techniques he advocates are equally
applicable to the disciplined requirements of providing plates for the
scientific press and to illustrations for more popular work or drawing for
pleasure. Over 100 illustrations include examples of the work of well-known
artists of the past and a large number of diagrams and line drawings. Copies
of this hardcover edition go for $30 and up on the Internet.

Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1983, reprint, 152 pages, 7 ½” x 10”,
gray-green boards with gold lettering, dust jacket, illustrated.

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