Art Class: Flowers & Foliage - Creating contemporary botanical art by Sarah Hankinson
Learn how to sketch, draw and paint flowers and foliage with this bright and accessible step-by-step guide. Flowers and Foliage explores the always popular subject matter of botanical art. This is a beginner’s guide to creating contemporary botanical art for everyone who loves flowers: tulips, sunflowers, orchids and many more.
Fantastic ice-breaker exercises include drawing with the non-dominant hand, blind contour exercise to test hand-eye coordination, and drawing a flower upside down to practice observational skills to draw what you see rather than your perceived idea of what a flower looks like. To help guide readers and budding artists to create their own amazing botanical art, each activity includes step-by-step imagery and diagrams.
The projects include working with different media: watercolour pastel pencil ink and use a range of popular flowers as inspiration. With a focus on appreciating nature and making time to play, this simple introduction makes the beloved style of botanical art accessible to all.
144 pages | Paperback