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Book Review - Botanical Painting with Coloured Pencils 

by Ann Swan GM SBA
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Botanical Painting with Coloured Pencils (UK)

Botanical Portraits with Colored Pencils  (USA)
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Synopsis

This is the first comprehensive guide to using coloured pencils for botanical painting.

Ann Swan, an RHS Gold medal winner and one of the top UK coloured pencil artists in this genre, provides a guide to how and why coloured pencils are especially suitable for the accuracy required for botanical illustration.
Topics covered include:
  • all aspects of working with coloured pencils, including techniques for underpainting, layering and burnishing and several step by step demonstrations of how to develop artwork and mix and build up colour.
  • tips on how to complete a work to exhibition/gallery standard.
The book also includes a gallery of artwork by the author, her students and other botanical artists also working in coloured pencils
Summary review

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - This is an invaluable guide to those wanting to develop their skills in using coloured pencils for botanical art.

This is the first ever book written by an RHS gold medal winning artist to deal in depth with the execution of botanical art in coloured pencils to exhibition standard.

​It's also an extremely useful resource for all coloured pencil artists wanting to achieve the very high standards of execution achieved by both Ann Swan and her students.

Rated an average of:
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars by 107 customer reviews on Amazon UK
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars by 124 customer reviews on Amazon.com

Note: This book was sent to me to review by the author / publisher.
Highlights
  • botanical art basics: a comprehensive overview of the techniques required to record information from live plant material
  • excellent and practical advice on how to photograph a plant to record information
  • detailed advice and information about techniques used to develop artwork
  • very clear step by step demonstrations with good explanations of materials and approaches used
  • particularly good section on small details (hairs, stamens, thorns, roots, tendrils)
  • a really excellent section on finishing touches
  • gallery of coloured pencil work by RHS gold medal winning coloured pencil artists
  • includes around 200 colour illustrations
Who should buy this book?
  • anybody aspiring to win an RHS gold medal for coloured pencil artwork
  • botanical artists wanting to explore a different medium
  • botanical art students and improvers
  • botanical art tutors
  • all coloured pencil artists seeking to improve their knowledge and techniques
Think Again?
  • limited review of different brands of coloured pencils for botanical artwork
  • more information about the lightfastness of specific colours would be very useful
  • Ann tends to prefer the 'underdog' in the plant world for her own work - she's less about the popular and floral and more about the plants which don't get enough attention
Who should not buy this book?
  • anybody not interested in plants, flowers or botanical art
  • anybody not wanting to improve their use of coloured pencils

More in-depth commentary of the book
BELOW 
​PLUS details about the author
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Hardcover: 128 pages
UK ​Publisher: Collins (1 April 2009)​
USA Publisher: Barron's Educational Series; 1 edition (April 1, 2010) -  (cover and title are slightly different) 

Average Customer Rating out of 5 stars:
  • in UK: 4.6 (based on 107 customer reviews)
  • in USA: 4.6 based on 124 customer reviews​​

BUY THIS BOOK​​
Botanical Painting with Coloured Pencils from Amazon.co.uk
NOTE: The current "look inside" for this book on Amazon UK is incorrect . have notified both Harper Collins, the  publishers, and Amazon and am waiting for it to be amended by both.
Botanical Portraits with Colored Pencils from Amazon.com
Author

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Ann Swan GM SBA is an award-winning and well established contemporary botanical artist. She's been awarded four Gold Medals by the Royal Horticultural Society and her artwork is included in the Shirley Sherwood Collection and the RHS Lindley Library.

She is also a very active and experienced tutor and has taught botanical art using coloured pencil in workshops and courses for very many years in the UK and abroad and now online as well. Ann has been enormously influential largely due to her teaching activities and her devoted students - many of whom now now show their work in the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists. Some now have their very own RHS gold medals (that's what the GM after her name means!) and also teach botanical art with coloured pencils. In the past I've tried to sign up for one of Ann's workshops on a number of occasions but they're extremely popular and always booked up months ahead. 
  • If you can't get to one of her workshops then I reckon this book has got to be the next best thing.
  • Alternatively if you want to see what she has to say before booking a workshop or course, why not see what skills she covers first?

More about the book
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This book was long awaited and it doesn't disappoint - although the content is as one would expect very much influenced by Ann's own personal preferences as a practising artist. 

Overall one needs to remember this book combines two subjects:
  • botanical art and
  • coloured pencils.

This means its covers authoritative information about
  • how to tackle botanical art
  • advice and demonstrations about how to develop botanical artwork using coloured pencils.
It's the combination of the two approaches which meld to make the excellent quality of Ann's artwork.

​Throughout the book there are demonstrations identifying precisely which art materials were used and in what order - plus the details of any other technique used to achieve the overall effect.
This book has different titles for the UK and USA markets and I'm not quite sure why they've done that but I guess there must have been a good reason! So
  • if you're in the UK it's Botanical Painting with Coloured (with a 'u') Pencils and
  • if you're in the USA it's Botanical Portraits with Colored (without the 'u') Pencils!

Coloured pencils is a medium which now accounts for something like 10% of all the artwork in the Annual Exhibition of the Society of Botanical Artists in the UK. (see The biggest exhibition of coloured pencil artwork in the UK and Botanical art in coloured pencils)

The recent big increase in such artwork is due to a few artists - like Ann -  who have pioneered the use of coloured pencils for artwork which meets the gold medal standard of the Royal Horticultural Society.
"...the major strengths of this book are Swan's own detail eye, her ability to render dark values and create a dynamic value range across her images, and her eye for interesting composition."
Roz Stendahl
Which brand? 

The first thing you need to know is that Ann favours Faber Castell Polychromos pencils. She highlights how they have a good range of the colours frequently used by botanical artists. However her review of art materials at the beginning of the book includes reference to Sanford Prismacolor and also provides a short overview of other artist brands she is familiar with and provides a brief comment on useful colours.

As an artist who is teaching her own personal techniques, Ann needs to be able to use those brands which she prefers to use. This book in no way sets out to be a review of different brands and consequently for me this is a 'need to know' aspect - and I suspect it may well prompt some purchases of Polychromos pencils by those who have not tried them before! The book details a good basic range of Polychromos Pencils. 
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I like the way Ann's coverage of basics in relation to art materials, equipment and studio leans towards text rather than images because it provides more relevant information!
Recording plant information 

Ann starts with a chapter about getting to know your subject. This is an overview of all matters relating to working from life with botanical material - including how to examine the plan structure, record information about the plant and preserve plant material. It's packed full of practical information and tips for working with plant material.

For those artists used to working from photos this chapter will be absolutely invaluable.

​I like the way the emphasis is placed on all the preparation work involved in producing good quality drawings for example - creating tonal studies, colour swatches and colour matching. These are the habits of the experienced and practiced botanical artist the world over and are ones that need to be learned by all artists aspiring to producing prize-winning botanical artwork.
Many works are competent plant portraits, but when we visit an exhibition of botanical art and look around it is usually the interesting, striking or unusual compositions which catch our eye
Ann Swan - in the introduction to Composition and Style chapter
Composition and style 

This chapter is designed to take people who are competent at producing plant portraits to another level.

She's very familiar with all the mistakes people commonly make when creating artwork. This is one of the few coloured pencil art instruction books that I've come across which gives over space to the design of the picture space and pictorial structure and matching both the the characteristics of your subject matter (in this case the plant material). I'm always amazed at how botanical artists manage to combine botanical accuracy with pleasing design and this chapter goes a very long way to explaining how. It's good to see Ann tackling the principles and elements of good composition in turn - while providing advice about how relevant and important each aspect is for the botanical artist. I liked the way she emphasised the psycholigical and mood aspects of design and composition - an aspect which I guess would not occur to most of us as being relevant to botanical art.

The commentary on how design and composition has changed over time is also very useful. 
Basic Pencil Techniques 

Covers line drawing and the achievement of tonal contrast using monochrome media.

​She starts with monochrome work in pencil - and you very quickly begin to get a sense of the quality of work which can be achieved. Ann provides tips on how to work on pieces which may take a long time and techniques involving erasers, incising and underpainting graphite

Coloured Pencil Techniques 

This relates to layering, burnishing and underpainting and she provides clear explanations and images detailing how these work. (Speaking personally I was very grateful to learn that she considers Lascaux to be workable Fixative as I've never been sure!)

​I was fascinated to learn that one can underpaint with Faber Castell brush pens or Prismacolor felt tips to achieve much more saturated colour as I'd never considered doing this. (However using media such as this would render a work inadmissable to the Annual exhibitions of UKCPS or CPSA). 
Colour 

​This chapter very much focuses on the colours which are much used by botanical artists - particularly the greens!

I'd have liked to see more focus on which greens were best in lightfastness terms as greens can be a bit of a problem due to some of the yellow and blue pigments used in the mix.

I finally found an explanation for why layering dark colours over light colours can be more problematic than the other way round - and you'll need to buy her book to find out why!

​She provides very clear advice about what order to layer colours. She's also very good on how to tackle flowers which are light colours or white and prevent them from looking grey.
The Chapter on Small Details is to my mind one of the most valuable in the book for beginners and improvers.

​One of the things I found very useful was the detailed instructions for how exactly Ann gets the degree of finish in relation to specific aspects. One of the parts of the book which I read first was the one on how to achieve hairs on a sunflower bud! Ann is very obviously an expert at incising!

​The best chapter in the whole book for me was the one on Finishing Touches - what you need to do to make your artwork look special in an exhibition. Particularly useful is the explanation of the different methods for sharpening up edges and removing unwanted marks.

​She then goes on to explain about signatures, storage, mounting and framing and presentation. I have to tell you Ann's own artwork always looks top notch and this chapter demonstrates why.
The book finishes with:
  • a gallery of artwork by fellow coloured pencil artists - including work by Diane Gould, Hilary Buckley, Susan Vize, Maggie Hatherley Champ, Janie Gildow (stunning work!), Susan Rubin, Brenda B Green, Libby Kyer, Janie Pirie, Susan Christopher Coulson, Sylvia Sutton, Rachel Munn, Susan Martin and Janet Wilkinson
  • a summary checklist of tips
  • recommended stockists, societies, botanical art collections and gardens​.
This was first published as a book review on Making A Mark Reviews on 9 May 2010. It's been slightly reworded on transfer to this page.

GO TO: The Best Botanical Art Instruction Books

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GO TO: The Best Botany Books for Botanical Artists and Illustrators
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GO TO: The Best Books about Botanical Art History, Artists and Illustrators

Other in-depth Books Reviews

  • The Art of Botanical Painting by Margaret Stevens
  • The Botanical Palette by Margaret Stevens
  • Botanical Sketchbook by Mary Ann Scott and Margaret Stevens
  • Books by Billy Showell - four very popular books of relevance to botanical artists
  • Books with the Eden Project (Martin & Thurstan)
  • Botanical Illustration (Oxley) by Valerie Oxley
  • Botany for the Artist by Sarah Simblet 
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