Denver Botanic Gardens’ award-winning botanic art program teaches students how to create illustrations of flowers, fungi and other plants that are both scientifically accurate and aesthetical… ...

Botanical illustration is becoming endangered, but the job is essential January 29, 2020 Botanical illustrator Alice Tangerini at her drafting table at the National Museum of Natural History.

And making botanical illustrations for a patron is alive and well, she points out. Florilegia – documentation of all the plants growing in a specific garden – is a big thing right now, she says.

MODERN TECHNOLOGY IS encouraging artists to turn to their tablets, rather than sketchbooks, to transform wonders of the plant world into intricate, and accurate, scientific illustrations.For the first ...

Botanical illustrations by Alice Tangerini; ... Lyman set out a dried plant specimen, a piece of bristle board, a pencil, and a bottle of ink and with a pen. Then he left.

The famous words come from his 1820 poem Ode on a Grecian Urn, but they are a fitting description for the practice of botanical art and illustration. It’s a place where art meets science - a ...

The Art Gallery at Delaware County Community College (DCCC) is hosting an exhibit of botanical illustrations showcasing a ...

Smithsonian botanical illustrator, Alice Tangerini, has spent over 50 years turning plants from the museum’s botany collection into artistic compositions, each of which can take up to two weeks ...

SCHWENKSVILLE — On Saturday, April 6, Pennypacker Mills is hosting a free presentation on botanical illustration. Scientists and artists alike are welcome to stop by the Classroom Building at 1 ...

And making botanical illustrations for a patron is alive and well, she points out. Florilegia — documentation of all the plants growing in a specific garden — is a big thing right now, she says.