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Botanical Drawing Plates: Draw flowers & plants the classical way Burst Books

Botanical Drawing Plates - Draw flowers & plants the classical way

164 pages, 40 black & white, 120 color plates

Botanical drawing plates for classical fine art study. Drawn from three sources.

Eugine Blery (1805-1887) was a french artist. Almost solely focused on landscapes, flowers and plants, he is one of the first artists to draw directly in nature. His pencil drawings are extremely fine and delicate. His etchings, worked to perfection in many states, were all printed by him, generally on luminous chine-collé. He was heavily influenced by 17th-century Dutch art.

Bernard-Romain Julien was the creator of the world famous Julien Drawing Course. He's a french artist that created many amazing drawings at the height of the classical realism movement. He returned to his hometown in 1866 and taught drawing there until his death on 3 December 1871.

Edwards's Botanical Register was an illustrated horticultural magazine that ran from 1815 to 1847. It contained many detailed water color illustrations of plants & flowers. These are ideal for drawing practise & reproduction in color pencil.

I totally support the point of view of French art teachers of the 19th century that fine art students need to study the rich traditions of the classical art.

French schools at that time advocated the following sequence of art education:

Drawing copies of classical art platesCopying drawings by the Old MastersDrawing classical casts - busts and figuresDrawing live models