Viewpoint — (not your usual blog)
This is my botanical art blog. Here you will find posts on technical and administrative topics of interest to botanical artists. Please feel free to comment or drop me a line via my Contact page. If you’d like to know more about my work please visit my portfolio site.
When is sharp sharp enough?
From left to right: sandpaper block from Faber-Castell; wooden pencil sharpened in the regular way; sharpened mechanical pencil; pencil sharpener; wooden pencil with half inch of graphite exposed; Exacto knife for shaving the wood off the pencil. When I'm working in...
Remembering Pandora Sellars
It has been four years since Tuesday, 9th May 2017, a sad day in the long history of botanical art. For it was on that day that Pandora Sellars passed away. In 2011, I posted the article below, Spotlight on Pandora Sellars. At the time I quoted from the catalogue of...