Watercolour Mixing Techniques for Botanical Artists

Watercolour Mixing Techniques for Botanical Artists
Author: Jackie Isard
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2021-03-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1785008293

Colour mixing is a key skill for the botanical artist. In this practical guide, Jackie Isard explains how to observe and use colour accurately. She shows artists how to make informed choices when selecting pigments, as well as how to learn about colour mixing and its application. Detailed instruction and advice are given on understanding colour and pigments. The author explains how to 'see' colour and tricky mixes, from greens and reds to the difficult botanical greys. Includes advanced colour application techniques - colour enhancement, shadow colours and colour temperature transition. Finally, step-by-step guides illustrate how to paint with layers, how to use underlaying colours to enhance, and colour and fine detailing.

The Paper Garden

The Paper Garden
Author: Molly Peacock
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2011-04-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1608195236

Traces the life and accomplishments of septuagenarian artist Mary Delany, describing her invention of the art of collage late in life after two heart-breaking marriages, in an account that also evaluates the roles of her relationships with such figures as Jonathan Swift, the Duchess of Portland and King George III. 35,000 first printing.

Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees

Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees
Author: William Bryant Logan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2019-03-26
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0393609421

Winner of the 2021 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing "This deeply nourishing book invites us to reclaim reciprocity with the living world." —Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass Once, farmers and rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople felled their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again. Pruning the trees didn’t destroy them. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and diverse woodlands that we have ever known. Arborist William Bryant Logan offers us both practical knowledge about how to live with trees to mutual benefit and hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of trees can teach. He recovers the lost tradition that sustained human life and culture for ten millennia.

Creative Edge

Creative Edge
Author: Hitomi Gilliam
Publisher:
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Flower arrangement
ISBN: 9780978416003

Botanical Drift

Botanical Drift
Author: Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Arts, Modern
ISBN: 9783956793530

Botanical Drift explores the hermeneutics, historicization, semiotics, and symbiosis of plant diversification, species cultivation, and environmental destructionpast and present, extant and extinctaround the globe. Plant histories are explored as commodities, and as colonial and decolonial devices by significant and diverse feminist, art-historical, and anthropological voicesfrom Germaine Greer to Herman de vries. Curators Petra Lange-Berndt and Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll began their research by staging a physical drift inside the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, London, where invited artists, curators, and historians shared performances, dance, readings, and interventions. In the final publication, the Kew Gardens events are joined with historical writings, research, and photo essays that attempt to reinvigorate the ancient role of the feminine force to discover our balance with nature. Contributions by David edward Allen and Maria Buzhor, Rebecca Anderson, Bergit Arends and Sunoj D, Connie Butler and Hazel Dowling, Caroline Cornish and Mark nesbitt, Alfred Dblin, natasha eaton, Germaine Greer, Kim Berit Heppelmann, emma Waltraud Howes, Melanie Jackson, Alana Jelinek, Philip Kerrigan, Kay evelina Lewis-Jones, Claire Loussouarn, Wietske Maas, natasha Myers, Matteo Pasquinelli, Raqs Media Collective, and Herman de fries.

Botanical Speculations

Botanical Speculations
Author: Giovanni Aloi
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2018-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781527513655

Ground-breaking scientific research and new philosophical perspectives currently challenge our anthropocentric cultural assumptions of the vegetal world. As humanity begins to grapple with the urgency imposed by climate change, reconsidering human/plant relationships becomes essential to grant a sustainable future on this planet. It is in this context that a multifaceted approach to plant-life can reveal the importance of ecological interconnectedness and lead to a more nuanced consideration of the variety of living organisms and ecosystems with which we share the planet. In Botanical Speculations, researchers, artists, art historians, and activists collaboratively map the uncharted territories of new forms of botanical knowledge. This book emerges from a symposium held at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in September 2017, and capitalizes on contemporary arts ability to productively unhinge scientific theories and certainties in order to help us reconsider unquestioned beliefs about this living world.

The California Field Atlas

The California Field Atlas
Author: Obi Kaufmann
Publisher: Heyday Books
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2017-09
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781597144025

"[A] gorgeously illustrated compendium."--Sunset This lavishly illustrated atlas takes readers off the beaten path and outside normal conceptions of California, revealing its myriad ecologies, topographies, and histories in exquisite maps and trail paintings. Based on decades of exploring the backcountry of the Golden State, artist-adventurer Obi Kaufmann blends science and art to illuminate the multifaceted array of living, connected systems like no book has done before. Kaufmann depicts layer after layer of the natural world, delighting in the grand scale and details alike. The effect is staggeringly beautiful: presented alongside California divvied into its fifty-eight counties, for example, we consider California made up of dancing tectonic plates, of watersheds, of wildflower gardens. Maps are enhanced by spirited illustrations of wildlife, keys that explain natural phenomena, and a clear-sighted but reverential text. Full of character and color, a bit larger than life, The California Field Atlas is the ultimate road trip companion and love letter to a place.

The Cutting Edge

The Cutting Edge
Author: Robert A. Fimbel
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 833
Release: 2001-12-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0231504799

Recent decades have seen unprecedented growth in the scale and intensity of industrial forestry. Directly and indirectly, it has degraded the wildlife and ecological integrity of these tropical forests, prompting a need to evaluate the impact of current forest management practices and reconsider how best to preserve the integrity of the biosphere. Synthesizing the body of knowledge of leading scientists and professionals in tropical forest ecology and management, this book's thirty chapters examine in detail the interplay between timber harvesting and wildlife, from hunted and protected habitats to invertebrates and large mammal species. Collectively, the contributors suggest that better management is pivotal to the maintenance of the tropics' valuable biodiversity, arguing that we must realize that tropical forests harbor the majority (perhaps 70 to 80 percent) of the world's animal species. Further, they suggest modifications to existing practices that can ensure a better future for our valuable resources.

Economics of Forestry

Economics of Forestry
Author: Bernhard Eduard Fernow
Publisher: Arno Press
Total Pages: 544
Release: 1902
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: