new! Color Charts and Class Handouts for downloading
These are handouts I have created in the past few months and that I will update as I expand or edit them. Hopefully they are helpful. Enjoy.
Also new, a link to my album of Tiles and Patterns I photographed in Spain- some inspiration!
A few of my favorite places:
Northern California Society of Botanical Artists
American Society of Botanical Artists
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
New York Botanical Garden, Botanical Illustration Certificate Program
People:
John Muir Laws, Journaling and Nature Artist and Teacher
Wendy Hollender, Colored Pencil Artist
Ann Swan, Colored Pencil Artist
Susan Fisher, All things color-mixing and beyond!
Mindy Lighthipe, Botanical Artist, bugs, beasts and botanicals!
Katie Lee, Botanical Artist, graphite, birds, wonderful words
Places I go to buy pencils and other art supplies:
Riley Street, Santa Rosa, Faber-Castell, Prismacolors,
Art and Soul, Sebastopol, Prismacolors and Faber-Castell and Lyra.
Lenz Art, Santa Cruz, Caran d’Ache Pablos, Faber-Castell, Prismacolor
Art Supply Warehouse, Westminster, Faber-Castell, Prismacolor, Derwent
New Independently owned Flax store in San Mateo
Support your local art supply store!
Books I highly recommend:
Colored Pencil Techniques
Swan, Ann, Botanical Portraits with Colored Pencil www.annswan.co.uk
Hollender, Wendy, Botanical Drawing in Color , www.drawingincolor.com
Borgeson, Bet, Colored Pencil for the Serious Beginner www.borgesonstudio.com
Gildow, Janie and Barbara Benedetti, Colored Pencil Solution Book www.janiegildow.com
Botany and Botanical Illustration:
Dowden, Anne Ophelia, The Clover and the Bee and From Flower to Fruit
King, Bente Starke, Beautiful Botanicals.
Simblet, Sarah, Botany for Artists (my favorite book right now) and a link to a wonderful video interview with Sarah Simblet on drawing and composition.
“I never read, I just look at pictures.”…Andy Warhol