Unlock the Joy of Botanical Drawing: A Comprehensive Guide to Drawing and Painting Flowers

HHH: Enjoying this book and trying out my Fabre Castell pencils. This author is very talented, beautiful paintings - recommend you look at her website or some of her tutorials on you tube.

United Kingdom on Sep 23, 2023

Joni Hirtle: In love with this book!
It arrived damaged on 3 of 4 corners, unfortunately (inadequate protection when shipping), but I liked the book so much I returned that copy and reordered, and the new one arrived without any damage. Hopefully in future, Amazon will add a little more padding...I'm all for using the envelopes over boxes, but with enough protection to keep it in good condition.

Canada on Sep 15, 2023

Edneide Assis Amaral: Um livro muito bem estruturado com explicações claras e belíssimas imagens. Os exercícios propostos são muito interessantes e bem conduzidos!

Brazil on Aug 28, 2023

pejman sadeh: in depth detail about botanical drawing lots of information and example

Australia on Jun 20, 2023

Pat Spaulding: The Joy of Botanical Drawing is a terrific book! The information is explained in very easy to understand style. I really enjoy Wendys perspective on nature drawings. The illustrations are beautiful and make me strive to do my own. I have learned a great deal already from this book.

United States on May 30, 2023

Bonnie Ottaviani: This book is beautifully done with clear and precise instructions on how to render the beauty of nature surrounding us. Taking time to notice the details and then capturing them in watercolor pencils, can’t wait to be come confident with Wendy’s techniques.

United States on Apr 08, 2023

Azula Oropeza: This book is shock full of techical info so that you can create awsome drawings! Is step bu step and the choice of color from the author are simple with stunning results.
If you want to learn botanical drawing, this is the book to biy.

Canada on Mar 27, 2023

R AlghamdiR Alghamdi: Loved it
Contains a lot of examples on how to paint with watercolored pencils

United States on Feb 06, 2023

Living and Learning: If you are going to buy one book on watercolor, this should be it.
I have a BFA, but have always avoided watercolor because, for me, it’s a . . .struggle. Over the last year, I paid $1,200 on two six-week webinar drawing and watercolor courses that didn’t even come close to covering the amount of information in this gorgeous book! Hollender’s book covers not only drawing and watercolor, but color theory as well.
I love the spiral bound binding — no more holding pages flat with other useless books!
Hollender clearly knows what she’s doing; this book is a work of love and it shows.

United States on Oct 26, 2021

Juniper: Treat yourself. Go ahead. You know you want to. I got the digital version and I'm working my way through it. I don't know Wendy and have never taken any instruction from her but I've been following her on Instagram (just because her work brings me joy) and when this book was announced I decided to pre-order one.

I am impressed with how incredibly accessible, systematic, encouraging and inspiring it is. I have many years experience playing with watercolor and ink. Playing. For the joy of it. But I think this would be wonderful for a total beginner as well because Wendy is so welcoming, encouraging and inspiring.

The book is gorgeous, just like her finished works. It's a joy just to look through it. It's broken down into sections that simplify the entire process, guiding you to develop patience and skill and an eye for detail. There is nothing hurried or stressful about it. It's a meditation and an easy one to slip into. And what better subject than nature!?

She offers a list of her recommended materials. I already had such a hodgepodge of colored pencils, watercolor pencils, and an assortment of papers that I went over her list matching what I had as closely as...

United States on Apr 27, 2020