KEW GARDENS BOTANICAL ARTIST

FRANCOISE BALSAN    Book Number: 94123    Product format: Paperback

Pierre-Joseph Redouté was one of the world's most influential botanical artists who worked as the official court artist to Queen Marie Antoinette and then to Empress Josephine, the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. Published in association with the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, we are introduced to his techniques and then a series of exercises - the Japanese anemone, daffodils, roses, rosebuds, simple roses, intricate roses, yellow roses, blue flowers like crocuses, copying a Redouté watercolour, mauve flowers like campanulas, yellow and violet pansies, narcissi, copying a watercolour by Antoine Pascal, red roses, a cactus flower on vellum, butterflies and drops of water, bouquets and additional techniques for creating botanical plates and observations on perspective and composition. Exquisite full page large and close up colour illustrations fill every page together with step-by-step and technique drawings so that you too can master botanical art. 22.5 x 28cm large softback, 192pp. New full price.

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