FW: Botanical drawings

[Neill, Amanda]

Steven,
   The Holmgren & Angell book is probably exactly what you are looking for.
However, a much more exhaustive text (in terms of techniques and examples)
is The Guild Handbook of Scientific Illustration, Elaine Hodges ed. (1989),
Van Nostrand Reinhold Publ.  The 574 pages will tell you everything you ever
wanted to know-- including a good section on plant illustration-- and the
only problem is that the illustrations are so beautiful and lifelike that
they may discourage the average person from attempting this type of art.
Amanda


-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Dessein
To: TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG
Sent: 2/23/01 8:46 AM
Subject: Botanical drawings

Dear all,

I¹m in search for a good book about preparing botanical drawings from
herbarium material. I¹m especially interested in a step by step guide
with
clear examples. Can somebody tell me which book is the best. At the
moment I
have two options, but probably there are better books?

Option 1

FW Zweifel
A handbook of biological illustration
university of Chicago Press
ISBN 0 226 99701 4

Option 2

K West
How to draw Plants
Herbert Press
ISBN 0 906969 28 X


Thanks,

Steven


Steven Dessein
Laboratory of Plant Systematics
Institute of Botany and Microbiology
Kasteelpark Arenberg 31
B-3001 Leuven
Belgium

tel. ++ 32 16 321536
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e-mail: steven.dessein at bio.kuleuven.ac.be