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"P van Rijckevorsel" wrote in
: Gramma schreef I am not sure if this is the correct forum for this question but there are surely some botanists who have thoughts on this. *** One of the prime uses of botanical illustrations is to illustrate botanical / taxonomic works. These are written by people who will have special and intimate knowledge of the plants described. Therefore they will know what parts of the plants it is necessary to feature, and from what angle, perhaps mounted in a special way. They will so instruct the artists commissioned to make said illustrations. So it depends on the plants portrayed (and perhaps the level to which knowledge has advanced of the particular plant portrayed. It does happen that later it becomes known that a feature disregarded so far by taxonomists is critical, after all). A common device to show scale is a scale bar (usually a line, sometimes with short cross lines at either end) that represents, say, 1cm, 5cm or 5mm in the real plant. If the illustration is reduced so is the scale bar. PvR This is true, generally the author of the work requests the illustration, and specifies the important features. There at least used to be a certificate program in botanical illustration offered by the Smithsonian Institute. Don't think that you are too old for it, Gesina (Nikki) Threlkeld was about 70 when she got her certificate. Sean |
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"Sean Houtman" wrote in message news:1106649932.225ccaab731b22d649df41aa18bf587b@t eranews... "P van Rijckevorsel" wrote in : Gramma schreef I am not sure if this is the correct forum for this question but there are surely some botanists who have thoughts on this. snip There at least used to be a certificate program in botanical illustration offered by the Smithsonian Institute. Don't think that you are too old for it, Gesina (Nikki) Threlkeld was about 70 when she got her certificate. The Smithsonian would be a bit far for me as I am in Oz but there are sure to be similar courses here. Age would not stop me doing something like that, but unfortunately my pension could ! Not surprisingly, as this is a new direction for me, I have not heard of the lady you mentioned. I will do a Google search and see if I can find any of her work Thank you for your reply Gramma |
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