Part of developing your art knowledge and skills involves exploring the variety of art resources available to develop your understanding of art. In addition to developing artistic and creative skills, you can also develop personal skills that you can use in your creative process.

Use this resource to help build a broader foundation for your growth as an artist.

In this download, we’re exploring a useful art resource through a book called: Vintage Botanical Illustration: Copyright-Free Images for Artists, Designers and Plant Lovers
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The book description from the publisher is below:

Are you looking to gain access to hundreds of beautifully rendered copyright-free botanical illustrations to use in graphic design projects, wedding invitations, and collages? Alternatively, are you looking for the best reference material available for your own botanical illustrations and designs?

This 2019 offering from Vault Editions is a brilliantly curated resource of copyright-free vintage botanical illustrations that will provide you with precisely that. This book features inspiring artwork from acclaimed botanical illustrators and taxonomists such as Hoola van Nooten, George Worthington Smith and Nicholas Edward Brown. This pictorial archive features a diverse range of lush tropical flowers, fruits, palms, ferns, carnivorous plants and exotic fungi. Also featured are masterfully rendered perennials, roses, trees, classic ornamental garden varietals and more.

Download Included:

Each book comes with a unique download link providing instant access to all 265 images featured. These images can be used in art and design projects, or printed and framed to make stunning decorative artworks for your home and office.

There is a variety of botanical illustrations of specific plants, along with some collections that provide an excellent source of compositions to use in your VAD.

Try the below artwork in your VAD to explore the world of vintage botanical illustrations

Below is an example of the artwork used as inspiration to create the botanical illustration in another style.