Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Book Nook: Draw Like an Artist - 100 Flowers & Plants

Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers & Plants is a beginner’s sketchbook that takes inexperienced artists through drawing a variety of botanical structures, demonstrating how each can be recreated on the page.  Featuring 600+ sketches depicting a variety of beautiful botanicals, floral forms, plant structures, and more, this outlined, contemporary guidebook is perfect for those looking to draw realistic botanical forms one step at a time.
Author Melissa Washburn is a skilled illustrator whose clear and elegant drawing style will ease readers through the sketching process.  Offering step-by-step visual instruction in perennial subject areas, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants features an inclusive array of florals, ferns, succulents, and more, all shown from a variety of perspectives.  Complete the journey from beginning sketch lines to finished drawing and master each set of illustrations!

Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants is a must-have visual reference book for student artists, botanical illustrators, urban sketchers, and anyone seeking to improve their realistic drawing skills.

Triple threat Melissa Washburn is an artist/illustrator/graphic designer who continues to exhibit her work throughout Northwest Indiana and lend her illustrations to advertising, editorial, textile, and package designs.  Her impressive background includes – but is not limited to – a bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and printmaking from Binghamton University, a master’s degree in arts administration from Indiana University, and experience as Art Director at the advertising firm Group 7even. Her fascination with things that run, fly, and grow has prompted her to write editorial commissions for publications such as Edible Indy, Charlotte Home and Garden, and Spirituality & Health Magazine, and she was notably a 2012-2013 recipient of an Individual Artist Program grant from the Indiana Arts Commission. Her most recent creations can be found at www.melissawashburn.com.

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