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Botanical Illustrations

I have enough botanical illustrations to make their own category. These are primarily done with traditional techniques, watercolor and crowquill pen.



Alocasia Alba
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Watercolor

© 1998

Painted at RBG Kew, and published in Curtiss's Botanical Magazine (Vol. 17, Part 4, November 2000)

Raphidophora glauca
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Watercolor

© 1998

Painted at RGB Kew, and published in Curtiss's Botanical Magazine (Vol. 16, Part 4, November 1999)

Fissicalyx Fendleri
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Pen and ink

© 1998

Traditional style botanical dissection plate. Published in the Legumes of the World, published by RGB Kew (2005).

Chamaecrista sp.
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Pen and ink

© 1998

Another botanical dissection plate, created from herbarium specimens at Kew. Published in Legumes of the World.

Crocus
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Watercolor

© 2002

Available at my online store.

Dendrobium Orchid
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(Dendrobium sp.)

Colored pencils and acrylic on drafting film

© 1998

Available at my online store.

Lords and Ladies
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Pen and ink

© 1998