r/BotanicalIllustration

This is my most recent painting (just finished yesterday). It took about 2 weeks on and off to finish with much test painting before working on the actual piece.

I love the variation of blues and purples at various stages of the flowering period and am in general very happy with tbe result.

It is based on a photo i took a couple of monthis ago in my local botanical gardens and I hope you enjoy it.

I m looking for advice on howto illustrate small flowers better .

I started my sketch book last week and first i went with alcohol markers which i enjoyed for some but they are too caricaturistic for my taste of nature and i just got in to watercolor which are new for me again.

Is there any source u know to find good references or u do it like me and get away with pinterest.

All of these are from Istanbul streets (except red spider lily which was my friends request)

Sorry, made a mistake with earlier post.

Sketched from live model outside

The crocuses this year have already come and gone, but I still like this study I did last year haha.

I think if I were to go back, I would definitely do some other color for the background. But sometimes, you just gotta accept it and move on.

Painted in gouache

I drew this digitally based on a purchase from a local Chicago plant shop :)

I used to do vegetation surveys around Abisko, Sweden for my PhD a few years ago and I've been wanting to paint the plants I used to observe there for a while. And I now feel like my painting skills are finally to a place where I can start to do them justice :) (plus some bonus moomin characters)

Idk how readable it is but the species depicted here are Vaccinium myrtillus, Vaccinium vitis-idea, Phyllodoce caerulea and Andromeda polifolia.

I wanted to paint a violet themed flower head for a few years. I actually sketched this last year, but only now I came back to it, changed up the linedrawing and added the colors. The last finishing touches was the hardest part.