Drawing and Painting Plants and Flowers

The art of depicting plants and flowers is almost as old as the history of art itself. Polly Raynes addresses this enduringly fascinating subject and shows readers how produce plant portraits in pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, pastel and watercolor, from simple line studies to fully realized, step-by-step compositions. Readers will also find professional tips for applying the simple laws of perspective and composition, rendering realistic water, creating summer and winter scenes and more. It's all the instruction they need to successfully capture the allure of plants and flowers in their art. Polly Raynes studied art at Brighton College of Art where she obtained a First Class BA Honors degree in 1983. Since then she has worked as a painter/illustrator in publishing, advertising, design and television. In recent years she has concentrated on her own work and has exhibited and sold her paintings in London, Brighton, Chichester and abroad. Polly lives and works in Brighton, England.