Botanical Illustration with Watercolors

Overview

“In this lesson I will explain the basic plant morphology. For this, we will do a simple dissection of the most important elements. Depending on the flower you have chosen, those elements will differ. I recommend you open up all your senses, as it is important to observe every detail. Plants seem very simple to the naked eye but in reality they are very complex; they have very fine and subtle differences between species, so we must be attentive to identify them. ”

In this video lesson Paulina Maciel · Canela addresses the topic: Plant morphology, which is part of the Domestika online course: Botanical Illustration with Watercolors. Discover the techniques to create illustrated compositions with plants and flowers.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this unit we will work with a real plant as a model for our illustration. I'll start by explaining the basic morphology of the plant. For this exercise, I chose a tulip. It depends on the flower you chose, the elements you'll get will be different. All plants have three main organs, which are root, stem and leaves. Since this is a cutting plant, we can't see the root. but we can use all the other elements to make our illustration. Only if we are looking for a scientific illustration, to document our plant, it's very important that we have the root. I'm going to do a very simple dissectio...”

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Course summary for: Botanical Illustration with Watercolors

• Level: Beginner
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• 154934 students
• 5 units
• 17 lessons (2h 32m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Botanical Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Painting, Traditional illustration, Watercolor Painting