Illustrating a Zinnia for the New England Society of Botanical Artists

This real-time film shows me illustrating a few petals and part of the middle of a Zinnia flower for the New England Society of Botanical Artists (hence a lot of the comments being directed to them). You can find them at: http://nesbaartists.blogspot.com/

If you are another Botanical Artists society, please do get in touch before sharing this particular film on your site; feel free to direct members to my Youtube channel but I would prefer you not to share the link directly, thanks to it having been commissioned by NESBA. Thankyou. Individuals...feel free to share!

I cover mixing colours, tackling the middle of a composite flower such as a Zinnia, getting lights and darks onto petals, and talk a bit about the anatomy of the flower and my equipment.

As always, I manage to get my hair in the way of the camera, and film bits of me talking about mixing colours whilst totally failing to get them on film, and there's even a bit towards the end of me upside-down, but overall it's another addition to the films I post on "doing botanical illustration in real time" so might prove of some use.

Equipment used is:

Fluid 100 paper (hotpress) https://www.speedballart.com/our-product-lines/paper/fluid-fluid-100-watercolor-paper/

Winsor and Newton series 7 brush (a number 1) http://www.winsornewton.com/uk/brushes/watercolour-brushes/series-7-kolinsky-sable-brushes/#product-info-watercolour

Winsor and Newton pans and tubes of watercolour http://www.winsornewton.com/uk/paint/watercolour/professional-watercolour/

Dr PH Martins hydrous inks https://www.docmartins.com/collections/frontpage/products/hydrus-fine-art-watercolor-1-0-oz-set-1

Pentel P205 mechanical pencil https://www.pentel.co.uk/products.asp?group=3&type=14&pid=125

Видео Illustrating a Zinnia for the New England Society of Botanical Artists канала Lizzie Harper