Orchid Botanical Illustration Step by step

Orchid Botanical Illustration Step by step shows Lizzie Harper illustrating the early Marsh Orchid Datylorhiza incarnata ssp coccinea in real time, and explaining her processes as she goes along.

There’s a step by step blog that accompanies this film which you can find here: https://lizzieharper.co.uk/2023/05/or...

It explains the steps involved and also chats a bit about the anatomy of the orchid flower.

This illustration is one of a series done for a wild flower guide to Braunton Burrows in Devon, and will be published by FSC Publications.

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Equipment used includes:
Princeton Neptune Round synthetic watercolour paintbrush (for more on this breakthrough, please check out my series of films seeking a replacement for my usual Winsor and Newton Series 7 brush)

Stonehenge Aqua hotpress watercolour paper https://www.jacksonsart.com/stoneheng...

Winsor & Newton Watercolour pans https://www.winsornewton.com/uk/paint...

Colours used: Cadmium lemon, Yellow Ochre, Sap green, Cobalt blue, Cerulean, Winsor green (Yellow hue), Cadmium red, Alizarin crimson, Opera Rose, Permanent Carmine, Permanent magenta, Sepia, Naples yellow

Daniel Smith Spring green watercolour https://www.jacksonsart.com/daniel-sm...

Pentel P205 mechanical pencil https://www.pentel.co.uk/product/p205...

Winsor & Newton Permanent White Gouache https://www.jacksonsart.com/daler-row...

Frisk magic eraser https://www.jacksonsart.com/frisk-mag...

Billy Showell Synthetic eradicator (mentioned): https://store.billyshowell.com/produc...

Illustrators Name-checked include:
Christina Hart-Davies http://www.christinahartdavies.co.uk/
Deborah Lambkin   / deborahlambkin  

Reference Books used (learning about botany):
New Flora of the British Isles by Stace
Flora of the British Isles by Clapham, Tutin & Moore
Common Families of Flowering Plants by Hickey & King
Understanding the Flowering Plants by Bebbington
The Cambridge Illustrated Glossary of Botanical Terms by Hickey & King

Reference Books used (visual reference):
Drawings of British Plants (Vol XXVIII Pl 22) by Stella Ross-Craig
The Wildflowers of the British Isles by Streeter & Gerrard
Collins Flower Guide by Streeter, Hart-Davies, Cole, Hardcastle & Harper

A few good websites to visit to find photos of wildflowers:
http://www.plantillustrations.org/
http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/
https://www.naturespot.org.uk/
https://wildflowerfinder.org.uk/





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