The Joy of Botanical Drawing by Wendy Hollender

An inspiring and easy-to-follow guide that covers everything you need to draw our natural world. Create stunningly realistic and vibrant botanical illustrations, from flowers so lifelike you can almost smell them to tomatoes that could have just been picked from your garden. Known for her vivid and detailed illustrations, Wendy Hollender shares her carefully honed techniques to help beginners get started and experts take their skills to the next level. Bite-size lessons break down the basics, then increase in complexity, all paired with in-depth illustrations to guide you in using colored and watercolor pencils to bring a botanical subject fully to life. Hollender shows you how to accomplish scientifically accurate portraits of a spiraling pine cone, spiky chestnut, fuchsia-tinted radish, a graceful morning glory, and many more specimens in this comprehensive resource for anyone interested in botanical drawing. WENDY HOLLENDER is a botanical artist, illustrator, author, and instructor.