And botanical art can be about more than accuracy. Often, the story a botanical illustration tells is more mesmerizing than the perfection of the drawing itself, says Bynum.

Think of botanical illustrators, and you might envision a world of medieval herbalists, tulip or orchid collectors, or affluent young women of the 17th and 18th centuries making detailed drawings ...

The need for exactness differentiates botanical illustration from more general flower painting. In the hands of a talented botanical artist, however, the illustration goes beyond its scientific ...

The famous words come from his 1820 poem Ode on a Grecian Urn, but they are a fitting description for the practice of botanical art and illustration. It’s a place where art meets science - a ...

The finished illustration will form a composite of a dozen or so drawings, some showing flower parts whole and in section. Advertisement “When I first looked at them, I thought they were all in bud.

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The majority of their original drawings were executed at the behest of the Director of the Botanical Gardens, Singapore and the Straits Settlement Dr. Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855-1956). In 1890, Dr ...

Wild Life Drawing is s drawing workshop where IRL animals fill in for models, but this time they've got a special Botanical Illustration class with Florence Kennedy of Petalon for serious sketchers.

Botanical drawing No. 55 by Jane Wells Loudon depicts white, orange and magenta color lilies. The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s newest ...