Beautiful Botanicals: Painting and Drawing Flowers and Plants

By Bente Starcke King

Immerse Yourself in Capturing the Beauty of Flowers 

The resplendent form and color of the plants all around us create a tapestry that stirs creative expression. Bente Starcke King, an internationally acclaimed botanical artist, spent a lifetime capturing this world, and in Beautiful Botanicals she fully demonstrates her materials and technique. Here is an artist enthralled with reproducing the most minute details which, taken together, bring a luxurious light and life to her renderings, and she is unsparing in revealing her materials and process for others to learn. 

Beginning with basic techniques, King provides specific, clear instructions for using pencil, pen and ink, watercolor, and mixed media in rendering a host of flowering and  
non-flowering botanicals. Guidance for creating lifelike renderings of rose hips and bluebells coexists beautifully with simple spruce cones and wild grasses. She explores perspective, composition, shading, and color mixing in a variety of mediums; practical concerns such as materials, the workplace, equipment, matting and framing, exhibiting, and copyright protection are also covered. 

Fine artists, novices, and decorative painters alike will find invaluable guidance and inspiration in this work that can be instrumental in moving their skill to another level.