Linda C. Miller’s favorite subjects to paint are seed pods. Miller, a botanical artist, is fascinated by the intricate details of the pouches that enclose and protect a plant’s seeds. She draws them ...

You can be lucky enough to be born with the ability to draw, but drawing is also a learnable skill that practice improves and makes perfect-ish. Learning to draw is a very rewarding thing to do in ...

Jane explores an exhibition of botanical art to learn about how talented artists create highly detailed works while representing botanically accurate plants. Sue Foran, the curator of the exhibition, ...

Think of botanical illustrators, and you might envision a world of medieval herbalists, tulip or orchid collectors, or affluent young women of the 17th and 18th centuries making detailed drawings and ...

When Europeans arrived in India, they were dazzled by the subcontinent’s exotic flora and fauna. The colonizers thus started commissioning local artists to paint these. In the absence of the ...