flowering plants

Nature Sketchbook. Tips for Drawing Plants

Janice KirkJuly 20th, 2019|Categories: Blog, Out Sketching|Tags: angiosperms, basal, drawing tips, flowering plants, leaf, nodes, relax, veins|

Are you ready to sketch? Equipment at hand, plant chosen, time to get outside? The [...]

Nature Sketchbook. Observation Checklist: Plants, Part 2. Segmented Structure (Angiosperms–Flowering Plants)

Janice KirkJuly 13th, 2019|Categories: Blog, Out Sketching|Tags: angiosperms, berries, blossom, compound leaves, flowering plants, flowers, Nature Sketchbook, nodes, nuts, palmate, pinnate, segmented, wildflowers|

In my previous blog I gave the observation checklist for linear growth pattern of angiosperms. [...]

Nature Sketchbook: How I Learned to Draw Plants

Janice KirkJune 29th, 2019|Categories: Blog, Out Sketching|Tags: angiosperms, Art Department Shasta Community College Redding California, botanical sketches, Boy Scouts, drawing lessons, flowering plants, herbarium, observation, plant neighbors, survival lessons, wild edible plants|

Years ago I illustrated the book, Wild Edible Plants of Western North America (Naturegraph: 1970),* [...]