buttercup Archives - Lizzie Harper

Illustrating a Coastal Hay Meadow Landscape

Posted on 27th September 201914th October 2019 in Current projects and news

Illustrating a Hay Meadow: The Commission A recent commission to illustrate a hay meadow landscape down on the coast of Devon was a wonderful job. The client is North Devon Area of Natural Beauty (NDAONB) and the illustration will be used on an interpretation board on site. Currently, the area is scrub land; it’s over-grazed […] Read more

Botanical Illustration: Buttercup Species

Posted on 22nd February 201620th February 2019 in Botany: Telling species apart, Showcase of themed natural history illustrations

Looking through my botanical illustrations recently, I realised I’d completed quite a few watercolors of flowers in the Buttercup genus (family Ranunculaceae). Like the botany ingénue I am, I assumed I’d covered most of the British buttercups, and decided to write this blog. Little did I know, I wasn’t even half-way through them! Ranunculus family […] Read more

Biolblitz at Llanbwchllyn Lake

Posted on 3rd July 201513th December 2018 in Scientific Illustrator out and about

As a natural history illustrator, it’s inevitable that I’m passionate about wildlife. Wildlife close to home is especially appealing, so when my local Wildlife Trust, RWT offered a “Focus on Nature Bioblitz at Llanbwychllyn Lake” I had to go along. I love the wildlife trusts, and this is a perfect example of why. What is a bioblitz? “Bioblitz” […] Read more

Botanical Illustration: the achene

Posted on 2nd May 20143rd December 2018 in botanical terms

Natural science illustration and natural history illustration need you to understand what your subject looks like, and he correct words needed to describe it. Last week my blog was about fruit type definitions, inspired by some work I did for Rodale’s 21st Century Herbal by Michael Balick. Whilst getting my head around the terminology of fruit types, I […] Read more