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Continue your recreation of a botanical drawing (of either a flower/plant, food/fruit or tool). It has been recommended this is a line drawing but may be watercolour or other media if this is your intended direction. You will be producing 3 drawings of your selected subject and must choose 3 different types of botanical drawing styles (eg line drawing in pencil, line drawing in pen, line drawing with labels, pencil drawing, watercolour, coloured pencil)
 * BOTANICAL DRAWINGS -** Tuesday 16th April:

3 drawings: 1 - Recreation 2 - From observation of chosen subject 3 - From observation of chosen subject.

HOMEWORK: Bring in chosen object to draw from for next class. Look at botanical drawings and select 2nd and 3rd style - these will need to be saved (with sources) so they can be printed and added to your portfolio page.

PLEASE CONTRIBUTE YOUR NOTES FROM CLASS DISCUSSION DIRECTLY TO WIKISPACE TO REFER TO LATER - use these notes as a starting point for your research and add more indepth information based on your own observations and research.
 * BOTANICAL DRAWINGS -** Monday 15th April:

The art of depicting the form colour and details of plants species frequently in watercolour Not mainly for art but scientific accuracy – portray a plant with the precision and level of detail to be recognized Microscopic photography may inform botanical work – botanical illustration can represent what cannot be seen easily in a photograph. Outline drawings distinguish elements that cannot easily be made using reflected light alone. The composition of the image can be manipulated in illustration – features displayed together which may not easily be shown together in nature. Examples of Botanical line drawings: Has measurements (size for line drawing) Identifies different parts of the plant – has all different parts Artist emphasizes parts of the plant and moves it to different places to be seen clearly Parts of the plant are labelled - either with a key or with the name of the part, some include information about the plant

EXAMPLES OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF BOTANICAL DRAWINGS CONTRIBUTED IN CLASS by Sayan, Jinatta, Jina: Sayan - http://www.bobbiangell.com/pages/science_illus.7.html#Clidemia

Jinatta- http://anglocath.blogspot.kr/2012_09_01_archive.html

Jina http://www.kswildflower.org/drawings.php?drawingID=14


 * TASK:** Find examples of botanical drawing that relate to your subject or area of interest (eg food, flowers, tools). You are to select arange of styles of botanical drawings and it is recomended you start with line drawings. Recreate drawings using hte same materials and techniques as your example. Size of drawings should allow for at least 3 drawings and 3 photocopies on an A3 page as well as notes and analysis.