The Kew Book of Botanical Illustration (paperback edition) Paperback – 15 July 2022

Lovely illustrations and drawings of each botanical so you can just start to paint your way.

I bought this as I have recently taken up watercolour painting and my favourite things to paint are flowers and botanicals. This book is brilliant if you are interested in drawing or painting.

good book just ? xx

The book was bought for me but I chose it and as an amateur watercolourist the illustrations and techniques were fascinating. A lovely book just to look through even if you don’t want to learn to paint!

Informative instructive and beautiful.

I really enjoyed this book. It's full of advice, guidance and techniques for both a beginner and those who want to improve. The illustrations are excellent.

A Lovely book if you want to know what it’s like to be a botanical illustrator, and learn some of their techniques. The colour chart gives information on why Christabel King uses the colours she does, there’s information on equipment used, including proportional dividers which I brought for myself after reading this book, they are very useful if you want to resize a drawing.The drawing illustrations in this book are beautiful and well done.The book tells of the history of Curtis’s botanical magazine with some beautiful illustrations from the magazines . It also includes what you need to know about collecting and preserving plant specimens.I would recommend this book if you are interested in how botanical artists work at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew .