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One of the frequently asked questions to the plant
painters is that why do not you take a picture of
the plant. The biologically experimented plant gives
opportunity to observe only one part of the plant.
The photograph does not give an opportunity for
%100 depiction. However with scientific illustration
namely with scientific plant drawing, the plant can
be depicted from its thinnest vein in the leaf to its
root and body. The detailed images of the plants are
recorded as a consequence and this is one of the
most applied sources of the botanists.
Training Not To Be Seen
Even At Universities
The scientific plant drawing
training is also given taking
everthing into consideration
at Baglarbasi Turco Islamic
Arts Perfection Center.
In sone European countries,
there are more
plant painters than the
number of plants but in
Turkey some plant species
are under the threat
of extinction. They do not
have an official education
at universities in Turkey but
our trainees take their education with this in mind.
They state their impatience and they want to draw
all herbalic plants in Turkey and compose a book out
of it. The scientific criterion are taken into consideration
while giving this 128 hours technical scientific
plant drawing training at the center. The trainees
learn the technical pencil, bold pencil and water
paint plant image techniques and after learning the
general features of the plant, they started painting.
The trainees learn the tricks of the art from master in
field Hulya Korkmaz. She is an nationally and internationally
awarded plant painter. She won a
silver medal at BISCOT scientific plant
drawing competition in 2009 Edinburgh
and won a silver gilt in
2010 at London Royal Horticultural
Society. She has been
teaching as a master trainer
at Baglarbasi Turco Islamic
Arts Perfection Center in
the scientific plant drawing
field. The ISMEK trainees
given a certificate after
the development course in
the field of scientific plant
drawing can be employed
at pharmacy, medicine and
botanics.
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