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Tag Archives: botanical art
Butterflies on vellum
A few butterflies around at last, here are four of the commonest: Peacock, Tortoishell, Painted Lady and Red Admiral. The caterpillars of these four all feed on nettles so leave a little patch for them in your garden. I’ve painted … Continue reading
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Painting on vellum
My final week of my botanical art course and we attempted painting on vellum. Vellum is derived from the Latin word ‘vitulinum’ meaning ‘made from calf’ and is in fact cleaned, bleached, stretched and scraped calf or goat skin. … Continue reading
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Bracken and a dead bumblebee
I’m enjoying doing these vignettes but for a change this week I couldn’t resist adding a few insects. My husband breeds the Emperor moths and last years chrysalises have just hatched and I found the dead bumblebee lying in the … Continue reading
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Yellow Tulips
Part of our holiday homework was to paint a flower from 5 different angles – how could I resist this beautiful yellow tulip – Golden apeldorn? I still can’t decide whether to give the one facing forward a stalk and … Continue reading
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Colour and burgeoning buds
There is more colour in the garden now – our strange climber, Akebia, is flowering fully and has an amazing scent. I couldn’t resist having a go at buds that are bursting out all over. Pussy willow may be beyond … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, botanical art, buds, flowers, spring, vignettes, watercolour
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Everything is coming up yellow
It seems at this time of year yellow is the dominant flower colour – it also happens to be the most challenging colour to paint, but how can you find that out without trying?
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Sticks, stalks and stems
This weeks vignettes – perhaps not very inspiring but I enjoyed doing them and any practice is good practice. The thorns presented the most challenge especially the foreshortened ones.
Botanical Art Course
This blog has been neglected of late but I’m hoping to put that right from now on! I have embarked on a botanical art course and as part of my homework I do pages of vignettes of anything that comes … Continue reading
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Tagged artwork, Biology, botanical art, Flower, illustration, painting, watercolour
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