Drawing and painting different types of leaves
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Featured artists from the UK include
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Botanical Art Techniques for:
How to paint trees and leaves - for botanical artists - a separate page on this website with more detailed information on this topic |
First - to show you what is possible
- here's a video of a speeded up painting process Rosie Sanders GM paints a Camellia leaf. |
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Next a more advanced demonstration
Angela Lober shows us the whole process of producing an image of a plant - in this case the Norfolk Island Pine. It's a very educational video for all those aspiring to produce significant works of botanical art. The painting was gifted to the Florilegium collection at the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney. |
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Mixing Greens with Merial Thurstan of the Eden Project.This is a promotional video for their illustration course and I've started it at the point which starts talking about mixing greens and creating a record of the range of greens you can create using just two colours.
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Julia Trickey demonstrates lots of different techniques and tools to use to paint leaves - all in 60 seconds!
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Julia Trickey continues with 60 seconds of tips relating to the colour of leaves and how to change a green colour
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Diana Sutherland provides a demonstration of painting on vellum - with five hours condensed into less than 5 mins.
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This first video is by Australian Botanical Artist Helen Fitzgerald GM. In it she demonstrates how the central vein of the leaf is core to the process of drawing curved leaves.
She's drawing and painting gum leaves in the three videos in this section. |
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In the next video she moves from drawing the leaves to painting the leaves. The video demonstrates the use of two brushes - one for the paint and one for the water.
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Tips on what to avoid
Helen demonstrates some of the errors found in drawings which demonstrate both poor observation and very poor drawing. Using tracing paper, she highlights how any failure to identify and follow through the line of the central vein leads to the creation of leaves which cannot exist in real life. |
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Dianne Sutherland provides watercolour painting techniques for
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This is a full length recording of a demonstration about how to paint a sycamore leaf that Lizzie Harper did for the New England Society of Botanical Artists.
Running time: 1 your 7 minutes |
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This is coloured pencil artist and tutor Ann Swan demonstrating how to create an ivy leaf in coloured pencils - starting with the veins.
Ivy Leaf Quick Study from Ann Swan on Vimeo. |
Lizzie Harper is a professional botanical illustrator who offers lots of step by step guides and tips about how to illustrate leaves and plants on her website and blog.
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A speeded up demonstration by Karen Kluglein of painting a hydrangea leaf in watercolour
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This is a fairly fast-paced video by Lizzie Harper of her approach to painting the whole of a wild strawberry in watercolour.
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Anna Mason focuses on how to paint leaves that won't let the rest of the painting down.
Her technical images derived from the photo she is working from are particularly useful for illustrating how the leaf works. This is something you can also do if you have photo imaging software and use the filters. |
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Lisa from Jackson's Art Supplies demonstrates
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Julia Trickey GM shares various techniques for painting a fall leaf - from a London Plane Tree - during her presentation for the New England Society of Botanical Artists. These include:
Running Time: 53 minutes |
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Julia Trickey GM demonstrates how to paint a vine leaf with a step by step video (speeded up). It includes a close-up of how the details of the leaf were painted.
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Helen Fitzgerald GM demonstrates how to paint a eucalyptus leaf including all the ever present imperfections. Helen is an Australian botanical artist who has produced a number of helpful instruction videos for botanical artists which you can see on YouTube.
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In this video Helen paints the autumn leaf of a grape vine - including the insect eaten holes!
She emphasises that:
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Karen Kluglein paints an autumn leaf in watercolour on vellum. Not so much a "how to" as a speeded up demonstration
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Anna Mason provides a guide to painting a realistic holly leaf.
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Anna Mason demonstrates how to create three dimensions using a basil leaf and just one colour, Anna demonstrates how structure, volume and dimensions can be created just using tone and different washes of just one colour
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Most of the videos about drawing and painting leaves on YouTube are intended for landscape painters rather than botanical artists
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This is a video made about Sarah Simblet and Sylva - the book she illustrated with drawings of very many trees. These were exhibited by RBGE in Scotland and this video was made at the time
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