Botany Art Project

You will find a page with step by step instructions on creating the color charts under the Week 2 heading.

Today we will experiment with brush techniques and graphite shading techniques and begin developing a series of color charts, inspired by the Bauer brothers. We will use the acrylic inks in primary colors plus black or sepia to develop the charts.

to share your work with the class, upload a 72 dpi jpeg of your graphite drawing to this google jamboard:

BEFORE PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR ARTWORK, please do the following:

• take a few minutes to find the best lighting for your artwork

• hold your camera parallel to your artwork so that it is not foreshortened

• crop your image

• adjust lighting if necessary

• adjust file size and save as jpeg (a large file will take a long time to upload and will slow down our class discussion)

For your exercise this week, you will copy one of the photographs by Karl Blossfeldt and practice shading techniques.

Blossfeldt (German, 1865-1932) was a photographer, sculptor, and teacher. He took these extraordinary photographs to teach his students at the  Kunstgewerbeschule (art school) about design and patterns found in nature. 

photos: top left;   Aristolochia clematitis, aka birthwort       top right: Papaver orientalis, aka  oriental poppy

bottom : left:  Passiflora (species not recorded)   passion flower      right:?