Botany for the Artist: An Inspirational Guide to Drawing Plants
A large, beautiful 256-page hardcover book by Sarah Simblet. It is an impressive looking book!
Not necessarily for beginners, this book will inspire artists to reach a very high standard in their drawing of all things botanical.
Sarah Simblet’s masterclass provides you with an awareness and appreciation of plants and flowers and shows how to apply that knowledge to your art. Covering every type of plant, from the tiniest mosses and lichens to sumptuous flowers and trees, Sarah shows how to evoke their beauty on your canvas or page. Drawing on the rich history of botanic art and combined with Sarah’s practical drawing classes, over 350 beautiful illustrations and vivid photographs, provide an in-depth look at roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits and explain how to create life-like drawings. For anyone wishing to master the art of drawing plants or for all those passionate about plants and how they are portrayed in art.
Drawing classes demonstrate how to work in a variety of media and masterclasses examine different approaches in detail, for artists of all abilities as well as for those simply interested in botany Sections dedicated to how artists have portrayed plants through the age.
Sarah Simblet
Sarah’s expertise, enthusiasm, and innovative approach to drawing give her books a vitality that appeals to a wide audience.
Sarah teaches at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, and at the Royal College of Art in London. She has studied and worked in Oxford, Cheltenham, Heidelberg, and Madrid, and was awarded her PhD by the University of Bristol.
Her drawings are in national and private collections, including the Royal Academy of Art in London and the Ashmolean in Oxford. Sarah is the author of the highly acclaimed Anatomy for the Artist and has had three solo shows of her large-scale work. She has given interviews on BBC Radio 4 and has acted as a consultant for Watchmaker and for Discovery Channel’s Art-Science documentaries.
In addition to ‘Botany for the Artist’ we also have Sarah Simblet’s two other books: ‘Anatomy for the Artist’ and ‘The Drawing Book’.
Click on the underlined link to go to the current offer on the Botany for the Artist: An Inspirational Guide to Drawing Plants book on the Jackson’s Art Supplies website.
Postage on orders shipped standard to mainland UK addresses is free for orders of £39 or more.
The image at the top is a drawing by Sarah Simblet from Botany for the Artist.
