Last week, purely by chance while conducting a Google search, I discovered that my Echinacea purpurea had been “stolen” by three clipart services and was being offered as a free high-resolution download. Further inquiries revealed that other botanical artists had...
It’s the first week of the new year and, predictably, there’s all the usual talk about resolutions. However, resolutions are just a statement of intent; without specific goals to give effect to the resolutions, intent is unlikely to be implemented. For example, in a...
A student recently told me that she thought that she and some fellow botanical artists in her group were suffering from “technique confusion.” She defined technique confusion as too many teachers with too many techniques and no one apparently able to address anything...
I teach three mediums: graphite; coloured pencil; and watercolour. While they have their obvious differences in technique application and material content, they have one essential aspect in common—the point. In all three of these mediums you simply cannot produce...
How to price a painting has always posed difficulties for botanical artists. Unfortunately, there is no magic formula. In fact, just like botanical art itself, pricing botanical art is a combination of art and science. I had to wrestle with this issue again recently...
I recently received an email from a friend and fellow botanical artist in which she said that she had become so distressed and disgusted at the political news currently on the airwaves, that she’d decided that painting was to be her sanctuary. She called it “unplug...
