with KATHARINE AMIES
Working with yellow and tackling a leaf - Part 1
Lesson 12 of 16
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Thanks to its limited tonal range, yellow can be a tricky colour to use in botanical painting. Watch as Katharine discusses its pitfalls, and reveals how to counteract them. With a lemon as the subject in this lesson, it’s also the perfect opportunity to practise communicating the form of a leaf.
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Leading British botanical artist
Katharine Amies is a leading British botanical artist. Katharine's work seeks to capture the intimate essence of plants in a manner that photographs, despite their detail, fail to convey. Katharine trained at the Chelsea Physic Garden in 2000. Her work is represented in the Shirley Sherwood Collection of Botanical Art at Kew Gardens which is the largest collection of contemporary botanical art in the world.
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