Sentences with phrase «botanical illustrations»

The past two years have seen a great revival in the popularity and interest in botanical illustration and several excellent publications have appeared.

A thin line separates botanical illustration and botanical art and I wonder, for many reasons, if the book's title is the best one.

Here was the chance to show that the majority of serious botanical illustration this century consists of line drawings because of the relatively high cost of colour printing.

And this pretty, botanical illustration notebook looks almost too lovely to use.

These oil paintings move beyond botanical illustration and explore the physical connections between plant and animal life.

This truely unique vase features original nineteenth century botanical illustrations from the archives at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Extending the idea of botanical illustration of traditional flower painting, Li's drawings and mixed - media works are labor - intensive diagrams of half - blooming, half - withering plants.

The importance of the subjects is not immediately apparent: in one painting, he pairs a roller coaster with a clothesline of hanging flags, while in another, he fills the canvas with botanical illustrations.

For these artists making art is an engulfing activity that involves immersion in natural history, science and alchemy with inspiration from arcane botanical illustrations, to birding field guides to weather charts.

Joanna Langhorne says that the best botanical illustrations bridge the two cultures.

He worked with Enid Blyton's daughter on her late mother's work and also produced very detailed botanical illustrations for Encyclopaedias.

Ruperto, based in L.A., and Heltoft, from Copenhagen, have produced a series of photographs based on the manuscript's 100 + ink and colored wash botanical illustrations, which detail unidentifiable plant species.

Morrison's iconic take on landscape, portraiture and botanical illustration employs appropriation, digital modification and collage to create transhistorical mashups.

One of his etchings is titled Lion and Tulips depicting the exotic carnivorous cat dwarfed by giant botanical illustrations of tulips and insects.

By the mid-19th century the appreciation for ornamental plants and gardening spread to home as commercial greenhouses and nurseries sprang up all over, and botanical illustrations became marketing tools.

Way back when, some 300 years before people had iPhones and magical - transforming filters to take antique - y flower photos for Instagram, botanical illustration enjoyed its heyday.

John Derian creates an aged aesthetic with intricate botanical illustrations, romantic florals and vintage prints.

Arts and Crafts doesn't have to mean intricate wallpapers and fabrics; you could opt to hang a group of pretty botanical illustrations — like this delicate Victorian - style drawing in its classic wooden frame — on a single wall for a more subtle take on this rich theme.

Update an existing sofa by adding a flutter of new cushions, adorned with delicate botanical illustrations.

Trained in botanical illustration, Rogers found the genre conceptually limiting.

For these artists, making art involves immersion in natural history, science and alchemy, with inspiration ranging from arcane botanical illustrations to birding field guides and complex weather charts.

Many of the signature decoupaged, handblown glass plates with coral images from New York artist John Derian are based on 18th - century prints, with a naturalistic style that echoes those of botanical illustrations of the same vintage.

«This is the sophisticated, fashion - led take on conservatory style and to get a handle on it, think a dash of Victorian palm house, with botanical illustrations and brass finishes, which, when combined, beautifully transform the home into a natural haven.»

After leaving a failed New York - based startup, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey returned home to St. Louis and took up botanical illustration.

I'm starting a botanical illustration course soon, so maybe I'll add one of my own.

Bleichmar discusses the importance of some 12,000 botanical illustrations that flowed from explorations of the Spanish empire in the half century after 1759.

The collection of images includes historic maps, botanical illustrations, unique manuscripts, photographs, ancient religious texts, and plenty of photos.

Merging traditional art genres of landscape, still life, portraiture and botanical illustration, Lincoln's lush works conjure figments of the imagination while meticulously rendering natural forms and landscapes.

This ambitious new show on watercolour art spans 800 years, and includes everything from war art to botanical illustrations.

Through still lives, Mattingly pieces together the never - ending map of logistics, harvesting, transportation, manufacturing parts, money and the needs that make up the supply chain of strategic minerals as a way to comprehend nature morte that has been always been traditionally captured through painting, photography, zoological and botanical illustration.

Morrison consciously shifts scales and takes inspiration from timeworn engravings, botanical illustrations, comics, animations, and found images.

Merging traditional art genres of landscape, still life, portraiture, and botanical illustration, with kitsch and cultural clichés, the works at once conjure lush figments of the imagination, while meticulously rendering natural forms and landscapes.

The exhibition features 161 objects, including paintings and drawings by pre-eminent artists, including John James Audubon, Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Frederic Edwin Church, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Thomas Moran, Samuel F.B. Morse and Charles Willson Peale, as well as sculptures, prints, survey photographs, zoological and botanical illustrations, patent models and engineering diagrams.

Some of the subjects that she explore are bio-genetic engineering, hybrids, botanical illustration, scientific specimens, and nature as metaphor for philosophical inquiry.

Inspired by literature, botanical illustrations and the natural world, she creates an awe - inspiring landscape of flora and fauna.

This has had a huge influence on my work along with my love of botanical illustrations, the natural sciences and the nostalgia of museum visits where, as a child, I would be mesmerised by the variety of exhibits and the way they were displayed.

Through still lives, Mattingly pieces together the ever - ending map of logistics, harvesting, transportation, manufacturing parts, money and the needs that make up the supply chain of strategic minerals as a way to comprehend nature morte that has been always been traditionally captured through painting, photography, zoological and botanical illustration.

Campbell's imagery is collected from botanical illustrations, historical drawings, and appropriated ancient myths.

Morrison consciously experiments with scale, taking inspiration from historical engravings, botanical illustrations, comics, animations and found images.

Working in various media, and specializing in etching and botanical illustration in watercolor, she has worked as an artist for over 30 years.

Her exhibitions and accompanying catalogues cover a wide range of interests including Rembrandt's prints, botanical illustrations, Indian and Buddhist art, and contemporary German drawings.

LT: I have always been interested in antique books, anatomical drawings, diagrams, botanical illustrations, Life magazines from the 40s and 50s, encyclopedias, topographical maps, and anything that seeks to explain the nature and science of life.

Repetitive, minimal forms in Morton's early work lead to more biographically tinged mark - making, ranging from abstracted diagrams acting as topographies of memory to botanical illustrations and decorative motifs.

I printed the botanical illustrations from PlantCurator and everything looked prettier.

The framed artwork is inspired by birds and botanical illustrations.