Revisiting botanical illustration for beginners: Bramble, blackberry, flowers

[@Jeanne88B]

I really liked this thank you for sharing! ❤❤❤

[@sararamer-dean7846]

Lovely! Thanks for sharing. To get around the leaf vein problem in future, paint the leaves first with a light yellow (like the vein), then after it is dry, negative paint in darker green around the veins. Using coloured pencils that are opaque on top of the veins afterwards can work, as well as using gouache. I like the choices multimedia provides, because purist watercolour can be frustrating.

[@barbaraconnolly9000]

Homemade bramble jelly is delicious, along with apple and blackberry pie, I do a rustic gallete style pie.

[@wanderingdi]

Yes! I made an apple and blackberry crumble from the fruit. 👌

[@m00n119]

gorgeous! i usually perfer watercolur instead of gouache but i see no issue with going over it with a bit of gouache :P it does the job at expressing your vision and looked great :D

[@muddypawz7778]

💚'd this! More botanical art how tos please. I feel like I'm going on a journey with you. 🙏

[@anneo3754]

Awesome berries! You can lift some of the paint to show the leaf veins as a lighter color that will suggest white without the brightness 😊

[@wanderingdi]

Thanks. I’m going to try that. 🙂

[@j9hnck]

I’ve never seen your videos before and I’m happy to have landed here as I too enjoy drawing and painting. As you stated this activity keeps one’s mind busy with the task at hand enabling one to shift thinking away from every day stress. I do it so much that I ignore my household tasks more often than not. I’ve been wanting to paint these berries for quite some time. You have made it look doable and I can’t wait to try. Thank you for posting this interesting video. I hope you have a wonderful day.

[@wanderingdi]

Thank you for taking the time to watch the video and comment. Enjoy doing the painting!

[@larysacherner312]

Absolutely beautiful with so many useful tips. Thank you very much for sharing the video, I enjoyed it a lot! Look forward to seeing more🌷

[@appleknocker56]

Great tutorial! Doing botanicals in the realistic way takes great patience & like how you show “even a mistake” has a possible fix! Would love to own that book from the 70’s showing how each plant looks! Often do the same when don’t want to think to hard so doing swatches of my mixes is like meditation. Ty.

[@wanderingdi]

I’ve had the Wildflower book since I was a child. It’s very treasured and inspired me to paint. Thank you. ☺️

[@jamielandis4606]

I love this! It’s beautiful.

[@Chilo-u5u]

This is a beautiful painting and I love how you show the experimenting side of it to. Also I love how you embrace the mistakes and show that it is not perfect all the time (it is normal to make mistakes) Look forward to seeing more of your illustrations.

[@mistygeller3193]

Beautiful illustration!!!

[@milenamarcocci6320]

Great art work ❤❤❤❤❤❤love it❤bravissima

[@florencecampbell774]

If I could paint as good as that,I would be very happy.Well done looks really good.🌺🌺

[@sandrakenny3107]

Thank you for sharing this .. I have been learning more about colouring I've learnt much from watching your video.😊❤

[@bellaj.4937]

Very nice! This takes much patience. I've always wanted to do this with the plants I get. You've inspired me to try to start.

[@miriamahern1550]

Thank you for sharing your time and talent Di. Lovely demo. V relaxing to watch. Much more satisfying as a realistic teaching watercolour session - over some other artists’ recordings where everything appears to go perfectly and their results are impeccable. Yours was much more credible, easier to identify with, and to learn from.

[@wanderingdi]

Thank you. 😊

[@barbmummey5467]

Really nice lesson. Lovely way of presenting and demonstrating.

[@ChristineEmmert]

You are great! Thank you so much. I love your video❤

[@isabellalucia7820]

Thanks for showing the whole process. You made a lovely page. You can lift watercolour with an eradicator brush (rosemary and co) to create those light highlights. (This works better on watercolour than cartridge paper, though).

[@wanderingdi]

Thanks. I’ll have to check out the brush. Sounds good.

[@sweethomes674]

Lovely 😊

[@WendyDewarHughes]

I love it! Thanks for sharing.

[@TheDabshear]

Truly lovely❤

[@ladyflimflam]

Remember that you can mix with your convenience green. It can be nice to start with the sap green then alter with your blues and yellows.

[@elizabethwilson7892]

Lovely

[@larysacherner312]

I've subscribed of course 🍓

[@wanderingdi]

Thank you.

[@littlestbroccoli]

What part of England are you in that the brambles grow like that at the side of the road? My husband and I are planning our honeymoon in the UK and it's my top of the list to see brambles, something we don't have any of in Socal 😅 Lovely paintings ty

[@wanderingdi]

We are in Northamptonshire near the River Nene on the video. Near the small village of Doddington. Brambles are common in England during September. They do have thorns though so you need to be careful of those. 😊

[@littlestbroccoli]

@@wanderingdi How lovely, I truly thank you. I hope we can visit in the Fall! Thank you for sharing your journal with us and I'll look out for more of these

[@paularobinson6131]

Lovely exercise! The end result looks great. Made me want to go blackberrying. And made me wonder also if you could use the actual juice of the fruit and work with that as the colour.

[@wanderingdi]

🤔 the juice might go mouldy? But you could try it. ☺️

[@pebblesthecat3625]

Could you tell me what words or description you put into Pintrest to get the results you showed on the screen please ? There were some other images on the screen that I am interested in, but after trying different combinations for the past few days I cannot find them.

[@wanderingdi]

Nature sketchbook, botanical sketchbook. I think these were the terms because I was looking for general ideas and layouts. One of the illustrations was of a raspberry.

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