I took a botanical illustration class from Austin artist Marjorie Moore at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center today. We used H and B graphite pencils in different hardnesses and experimented with laying down harder lead to be a base for the softer leads. After drawing from live specimens, we added in color with waxy colored pencils and watercolor pencils. It was a good day and Marjorie has a wonderful collection of botanical illustration books that she shared with us-some very old, gave a short history on botanical illustration and a good bibliography handout for future research. It really helped our observation skills to develop by observing these small botanical specimens and noticing very small differences as we attempted to render them realistically.
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