It’s quite common for a botanical artist to reach a stage in a plant study where the effort invested in a developing piece appears to fall short of the anticipated results. One can experience a sense of inadequacy at the apparent lack of progress with the result that...
For much of 2025, in my teaching and e-booklets, I have focused on the fundamental techniques required in botanical art in the three mediums I use in my own practice, graphite, coloured pencil, and watercolour. My workshop participants spent a lot of time creating...
Two recent Instagram posts tell the story of a bold and blatant brush-stroke-for-brush-stroke rip-off of an award-winning chestnut painting by renowned botanical artist, Dianne Emery. With Dianne’s permission I’m showing her chestnut painting above but...
If you draw inspiration from paging through beautifully-illustrated botanical art books with seemingly endless examples of outstanding contemporary and award-winning botanical works, then I have something you should know about. It’s the Society of Botanical Artists...
By Michael Best Creating botanical art in a war zone is a battle. And Ukrainian botanical artist, Alona Hrinchuk, is living that battle. She’s creating botanical art in circumstances unimaginable to those of us whose daily lives do not include air raid sirens,...
While working on my latest e-booklet on watercolour techniques for botanical art, I was looking for images by artists whose work offers information on the process they use, while at the same time speaking to an identifiable style. In other words, I wanted works that...
