botanical illustration

Presents over six hundred copyright-free, black-and-white illustrations of such types of plants and flowers as herbs, house plants, weeds, wildflowers, garden flowers, orchids, roses, trees of the Northeast, and several others.

This book, Flowers and botanicals, introduces fundamentals of drawing of flowers and botanicals to new artists -- particularly those with real interest in skill development. Included is an emphasis on helping students find their "inner" artist.

Step-by-step instructions for drawing flowers, trees, cactuses, fruits, vegetables, and fungi.

Contains over seventy full-color plates of plants, flowers, and trees that thrived in the legendary German garden founded at Eichst?tt in the early seventeenth century.

Representations of the many families of wildflower with a brief description, characteristics, and range.