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BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION GALLERY

All images copyrighted by Christi A. Sobel, or property of Kew Gardens.

color | dissection plates

 

Color
 

Tulip (Tulipa sp.), © 1998

 

Both of these are done with colored pencils and acrylic on drafting film.

1998

 

Dendrobium Orchid (Dendrobium sp.), ©1998

  

 Spineless Prickly Pear

colored pencil on drafting film

©1999

 
 ECHO made notecards from this and 3 other of my drawings. If you're interested, please go to ECHO's online bookstore giftshop to check them out!
 

Raphidophora glauca

Published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, November 1999

 

Two watercolors, both painted while interning at the Royal Botanic Gardens, KEW. Now property of Kew and the Crown.

1998

 

Alocasia crassifolia

Published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine, November 2000

 

small pansy from my garden, just for fun, in colored pencils ©1999

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Black and White Dissection Plates

 

 These top two illustrations are examples of the 11 plates that I drew while interning at the Royal Botanic Gardens, KEW, in London. They were both created from dissection of the specimen and some existing sketches present with the type specimen. The actual inking was done with a crowquill (a small flexible-nibbed dip pen). All of these illustrations are now pending publication in Kew Bulletin, and I believe that they are now also property of the Crown, so I won't say any more about those.

1998
  

 Lords and Ladies

(Arum italicum)

  

©1998

pen and ink

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