wareagle69
07-25-2008, 11:43 AM
when i started this journey into wildedibles i wanted lots of books with clor photos and while it did help with a limited few pics of small plants it does no good with larger plants, heres an example
there is a plant growing around here all over the place my yard the pastures roadsides and such about 3ft tall alternate leaves with yellow flowers, should have been easier to id that it was i looked thru my lone pine series of ontario wildflowers and thru peterson feild guide and audon society, now some of these picts were of a leaf or of the flower itself one black and white drawing is not bad, finally yesterday at a gift shop on the island that sells allot of native artifacts along with books and cd's (you get the idea tourist trap) so i am looking at all the books and i now look for allot in a book i have so many sittting on the shelf i no longer use, i come across another lone pine book was a compilation of ontario nature great book but as i look at one page i see color hand drawn picts which i have been using allot of latley a bang there she was, common evening primrose, so i bought the book
so to make a long story longer last week i bought an artist skecth book and color pencils, now i am no artist but i am gonna try to use this style for my book, you need a complete picture of a plant roots stem leaves and flower so much more detail can go into this type of pictures try it you will so agree with me
there is a plant growing around here all over the place my yard the pastures roadsides and such about 3ft tall alternate leaves with yellow flowers, should have been easier to id that it was i looked thru my lone pine series of ontario wildflowers and thru peterson feild guide and audon society, now some of these picts were of a leaf or of the flower itself one black and white drawing is not bad, finally yesterday at a gift shop on the island that sells allot of native artifacts along with books and cd's (you get the idea tourist trap) so i am looking at all the books and i now look for allot in a book i have so many sittting on the shelf i no longer use, i come across another lone pine book was a compilation of ontario nature great book but as i look at one page i see color hand drawn picts which i have been using allot of latley a bang there she was, common evening primrose, so i bought the book
so to make a long story longer last week i bought an artist skecth book and color pencils, now i am no artist but i am gonna try to use this style for my book, you need a complete picture of a plant roots stem leaves and flower so much more detail can go into this type of pictures try it you will so agree with me