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| Botanical
Illustrations by
Christina Brodie |
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I
took up botanical painting in 1998. Since doing so, I have received
Gold (2003, 2005) and Silver-Gilt (2000) Medals at the RHS Shows
in London and Birmingham NEC, and have written a book about
botanical painting, Drawing and Painting Plants, published
by A & C Black. I have taught botanical painting both at
Somerset adult education centres and at RHS Rosemoor (Devon).
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I
love to paint several objects on a single page, rather than just
one object, to give a decorative effect; perhaps this is the result
of my background in textile design! A close-up view of some of the
paintings can be selected, which shows a better view of the detail
within each painting. Click
on paintings to view larger images.
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| Autumn
Colours |
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Tropical
Fruits & Spices |
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| Leaves
from Westonbirt Arboretum. Illustrated are leaves of two types of
oak, plane, sweet chestnut, birch, beech, katsura and three types
of maple, as well as fragments of larch needles, an acorn and a spindleberry.
Gouache on paper. |
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An
assortment of tropical fruits and spices: fig, kumquat, cherimoya,
pomegranate, pineapple, clove, cardamom pod, star anise, cinnamon,
nutmeg. Gouache on paper. |
| Seed
Heads |
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Cones |
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heads of clematis, shepherd’s purse, wintersweet, marigold,
thistle, umbellifers, St John’s Wort, sweet pea. Acrylic on
paper. |
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Includes
cones from fir, Douglas fir, a large-coned pine, sequoia, cryptomeria.
Gouache on paper |
| Winter
Twigs |
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Winter
Twigs II |
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| Winter
buds: horse chestnut, walnut, ash, beech, oak. Gouache on paper. |
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Winter
twigs used for winter colour and decorative weaving: willow, bramble
and three types of dogwood. Gouache on paper. |
| Blue
Spring Flowers |
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Red-Purple
Spring Flowers |
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| Forget-me-not,
Scilla, violet, grape hyacinth, periwinkle, pansy, rosemary, spring
anemone, Primula species. Watercolour and gouache on paper. |
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Clematis
cv., hellebore cv., snakeshead fritillary, daphne, auricula. Watercolour
and gouache on paper. |
| Sunflower |
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Roots |
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| Gouache
on paper. |
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Garlic
corm, daffodil bulb, ginger and iris rhizomes, lily bulb, gladiolus
corm, potato tuber, parsnip taproot, adventitious roots of ivy. Gouache
on paper. |
| Sections
Through Fruits |
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| Tomato,
kiwifruit, passion fruit. Watercolour and gouache on paper. |
| Honey
Guides in Schizanthus |
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Pansy, nasturtium. Watercolour and gouache on paper. |
| Variegated
Leaves |
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Development
of Sunflower & Maize Seeds |
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| Including
cultivars of ivy, hosta, zonal geranium, cyclamen, box, Euonymus,
Aucuba japonica, Thujopsis dolobrata. Gouache
on paper. |
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Gouache
and black acrylic gesso on paper. |
| Apple
(Malus 'Discovery') |
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Oak
(Quercus robur) |
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| Showing
seeds, flower and fruit painted in various stages of development.
Gouache on paper. |
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Showing
tree in winter and summer; male catkins; branch in leaf; female catkins;
acorns; winter twig and galls. Gouache on paper. |
| Alder
and Hazel Catkins |
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Willow
Catkins |
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| Acrylic
on paper. |
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Acrylic
on paper. |
| Yew
(Taxus baccata) |
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on paper. |
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| Scale-Leaved
Conifers |
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Needle-Leaved
Conifers |
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| Juniper,
thuja; Lawson's cypress; cypress, crytomeria; sequoiadendron. Acrylic
on paper. |
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2-
and 3-needle pines; Norway spruce; Korean fir; Douglas fir; Atlas
cedar; larch. Acrylic on paper. |
| Jersey
Cow Bolete |
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Earth-Balls |
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A
bolete fungus, which has pores on the underside of its cap instead
of
gills. Gouache on paper. |
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The
earth-ball is a similar fungus to the puff-ball, and likewise scatters
spores by explosion. Gouache on paper. |
| Fungi
From a Moorland Location |
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Moorland
Mosses |
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| Fly
agaric; cauliflower fungus; a bolete; birch polypore; Lactarius
turpis; sulphur tuft; blusher. Gouache on paper. |
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Polytrichum
formosum; a species of Sphagnum; Thuidium tamariscinum; Rhytiadelphus
triquetrus. Acrylics on paper. |
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Tortula muralis |
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Usnea
Lichens |
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widespread moss, commonly, as its name suggests, found on walls. Acrylic
on paper. |
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Lichens
are often used as indicators of air quality. Shown here are two Usnea
species from an apple branch. Acrylic on paper. |
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Species of Cladonia Lichens |
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Species
of Crustose and Foliose Lichens from an Apple Branch |
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| Cladonia
fimbriata; C. bellidiflora; C. coniocraea. Acrylics on paper. |
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Clockwise
from upper left: Lecanora conizaeoides; L. campestris; L. atra;
Xanthoria parietina . Acrylics and ink on paper. |
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