Drawing and Painting Fungi: An Artists Guide to Finding and Illustrating Mushrooms and Lichens

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Drawing and Painting Fungi: An Artists Guide to Finding and Illustrating Mushrooms and Lichens Author: Format: Paperback / softback First Published: Published By: The Crowood Press Ltd
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Pages: 176 Illustrations and other contents: 353 Illustrations, unspecified Language: English ISBN: 9780719843327 Categories: , , , Tag:

This comprehensive book delves into the magical and secretive world of fungi and lichens. It includes a thorough guide to the safe collection and identification of wild specimens and explains how to draw and paint them in the field and the studio, in sketchbooks and finished artworks with line, form, texture, tone, colour and composition all in mind. With over 350 illustrations, this book is an essential companion for mycophiles, artists, illustrators and journallers, as well as all those who love nature.

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The text is admirably comprehensive, with plenty of information about fungi themselves, as well as ways of depicting them in pencil, ink, watercolour and gouache... it looks excellent to me. -- Henry Malt, The Artist * The Artist *

Author Biography

CLAIRE KATHLEEN WARD is an award-winning nature artist and natural history illustration tutor. She hopes to encourage, promote and inspire people to become passionate about the natural world through observation and art, to conserve and protect it for the future. She is currently one of the presidents of the Society of Botanical Artists.