Botanical Illustration

Denver Botanic Gardens' Botanical Art and Illustration Certificate Program is designed to teach the skills necessary to portray plants accurately both for scientific purposes and for beautiful plant illustrations. The program is open for everybody, both for committed illustrator and enthusiastic amateur. The program can lead to a Certificate that is offered only a few locations worldwide. This Certificate Program was initiated and established in 1990 by Angela Overy.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Capturing The Red Color

Instructor for our Ravishing Reds Course was Constance Sayas - this is one of her class handouts for bright red flowers

Capturing the right red color is an interesting challenge for the illustrator. There should be more orange in the sunlight and more violet in the shadows, perhaps something else at the edges.

Among our elective courses selection we offer from time to time Ravishing Reds course in which the students learn to mix the red hues that are needed to create value and form in red. Please enjoy some student work (in-process) from that class by clicking here.