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Drawing Botanicalsat Montalvo Art Center

Class:3

Pen and Ink

Thursday, 3/27/086:30 PM - 8:30 PM

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Benets of Ink

Convenient: You can easily carry all the materials youneed to create an ink drawing.

Attractive and Professional: Inked drawings areaesthetically pleasing as artwork, mementos and gifts.

Fidelity: Does not loose detail when copied.

Affordable to publish: Black and white Line Drawingsare less expensive to publish than color images,because it requires only one color of ink.

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Outline with minimal shadingfor clarity and ease of identication

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Bi-symmetry

Exercise:1, Stipple shade

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Choice of shading technique

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Exercise:2, Line shade

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Shading with Pen and Ink

Line drawing: Drawing with ink, using a single undiluted

color. Line shade: Drawing closely spaced lines, dashes, or

dots to create the illusion of shades of grey.

Types of line: Un-weighted line, Weighted line, Straightlines, Contour line, Wavy line, Dashed line, Stipple,Crosshatch, Criss-cross and Scribble.

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Pen and Ink Technique Illusion of depth: Diminishing line

weight, diminishing value of shade.

Other perspective techniques: Linebreak, overlap, converging lines,baselines.

Illusion of volume: Shadows followcontour, weighted line.

Illusion of texture: Crosshatch, or variable stipple shading techniqueand rough, variable weight outline.

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Vertical and Horizontal: Press, roll, pull and lift.

Brush pen grip

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Chinese painting Techniques by Alison Stilwell Cameron

Exercise 4: Brush pen strokes

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Brush pen: Line

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Exercise:5, Variable line shade

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Exercise:6, Line shade

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Correcting the cactus patternTexture contrast: Hard edge and soft edge

Exercise:8, Art pens

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E.Rooks

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Exercise:9, Stipple

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Texture pattern

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Value contrast with background

B d

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Buds

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unweighted Line,simplied shading,

RegularActinomorphic Flower

Radial Symmetry

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Radial Symmetry

Bi symmetry

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Bi-symmetry

Bi-symmetrical

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Bi symmetrical

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Reference books used in Edward Rooks presentation on Drawing BotanicalsBooks on Botanical Art:1) Botanical Illustration in Watercolor by Eleanor B. Wunderlich2) "How to Draw Plants: The Techniques of Botanical Illustration" by Keith West

3) Flowers & Botanicals by Diane Cardaci4) "The Art of Botanical Painting" by Margaret Stevens5) The Guild Handbook of Scientic illustrators Edited by Elaine R.S. Hodges6) Scientic Illustration, by Phyllis Wood

Other Reference Books:1) Sketching your Favorite Subjects in Pen & Ink by Claudia Nice.2) The Book of Botanical Prints by Basilius Besler3) Native Shrubs of the San Francisco Bay Region by Roxanne S. Ferris4) A Guide to Field Identication: Trees of North America by C. F. Brockman