Name: Botany for the Artist
ISBN: 9780756652500

Sarah Simblet

An Inspirational Guide to Drawing Plants

Botany for the Artist

Evil Lizzard

This book is stunning.

I was expecting one of those flimsy 'for artists' books that seem to be the norm, but this is an exceptional work of love.

This is written by someone who understands her art, understands botany, understands teaching and loves all three passionately. The result is a very useful book. Both for artists and for people that want to gain (well beyong entry level) insight into the plant world.

I bought this book to inspire me for making black board drawings for the children in my fifth grade Waldorf school. The book really helps me to look at plants artistically and make solid artistic choices. It also helps that rather a lot of photographs in the book are pictured on a black background! This makes the 'translation' to the black board so much easier! 

My mother - a water color artist - was also hugely impressed and inspired by the book.

I highly recommend this book.

Botany for the Artist An Inspirational Guide to Drawing Plants

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