Links, Books and Supplies

new!   Color Charts and Class Handouts for downloading

These are handouts I have created in the past few months and that I will update as I expand or edit them. Hopefully they are helpful. Enjoy.

Also new, a link to my album of Tiles and Patterns I photographed in Spain- some inspiration!

A few of my favorite places:

American Society of Botanical Artists/NCalSBA

Guild of Natural Science Illustrators

New York Botanical Garden, Botanical Illustration Certificate Program

People:

John Muir Laws, Journaling and Nature Artist and Teacher

Wendy Hollender, Colored Pencil Artist

Ann Swan, Colored Pencil Artist

Susan Fisher, All things color-mixing and beyond!

Mindy Lighthipe, Botanical Artist, bugs, beasts and botanicals!

Katie Lee, Botanical Artist, graphite, birds, wonderful words

Places I go to buy pencils and other art supplies:

Riley Street Art Supply, Santa Rosa and San Rafael, Faber-Castell, Prismacolors, Lyra and now Caran d’Ache Pablos!

Art and Soul, Sebastopol, Prismacolors and Faber-Castell and Lyra. 

Lenz Art, Santa Cruz, Caran d’Ache Pablos, Faber-Castell, Prismacolor

Art Supply Warehouse, Westminster, Faber-Castell, Prismacolor, Derwent

 

Support your local art supply store!

Books I highly recommend:

Colored Pencil Techniques

Swan, Ann,  Botanical Portraits with Colored Pencil  www.annswan.co.uk

Hollender, Wendy, Botanical Drawing in Color  

Borgeson, Bet, Colored Pencil for the Serious Beginner   

Gildow, Janie and Barbara Benedetti, Colored Pencil Solution Book

Botany and Botanical Illustration:

Dowden, Anne Ophelia, The Clover and the Bee and From Flower to Fruit

King, Bente Starke, Beautiful Botanicals.

Simblet, Sarah, Botany for Artists (my favorite book right now) and a link to a wonderful video interview with Sarah Simblet on drawing and composition.

 

“I never read, I just look at pictures.”…Andy Warhol