Botanical Painting with Coloured Pencils. Ann Swan

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      ∆ Make a tonal study of your plant using simple hatching strokes of varying pressure to depict the range of tonal values from dark to light.

       TIP

       A useful exercise is to make a tonal study of a plant using a colour not associated with that plant. For instance, draw the whole plant in values of blue, just varying the pressure of the pencil to increase the tonal value.

      MEASURING

      As botanical artists we combine scientific observation with artistic representation and however we choose to interpret our plant material we must be accurate. Botanical paintings are always life size unless otherwise indicated and for strict scientific purposes if you enlarge a part of the plant, for example the stamens, you must note on the painting what the magnification of that part is, such as ‘x 2’ or ‘x 4’ for instance.