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    Welcome to Lizzie Harper’s Website!

    An experienced natural history and botanical illustrator, Lizzie’s work appears in books and magazines around the world, on postage stamps and mugs.

    She lives very happily in Hay on Wye, and works her garden studio surrounded by plants and birds.

    Lizzie Harper

    “ I am passionate about the natural world and love learning about the plants and animals I illustrate. ”

    Projects Showcase

    Bush tea or Quickstick Gliricidia sepium showing plant and a detail of one flower

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    Here`s a speeded up film of me adding a top layer of watercolour to a pen and ink illustration of Downy Birch Betula pubescens

    It`s a swift way to add colour to a monochrome image, and requires far less work with the brush as all the tonal variety is provided by the pen and ink stippling.

    Adding the watercolour took about 2 hrs, here it`s condensed into 1.5minutes.

    #sciart #botanicalillustration #drawnbyhand #betula #burch #nature #trees #environment #naturalhistoryillustration #naturalscienceillustration
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    Finished this Common toad Bufo bufo today for an interpretation board.

    It`s interesting doing amphibians as I can`t build up colour with fur, feathers, or butterfly scales. So lots of warts have to serve the same purpose.

    I did think how much I`d like to watch @stoneridgeartstudios painting the same beast, and really wanted @paulmillerwildlifeart to suddenly materialize and do the eye, but it worked out OK.

    Female toads are larger than the majes, and in March you might see big pools of them all spawning. Unlike frogs, toadspawn is laid in long threads rather than clumps. Toads are less relent on water than ftogs, but being amphibians they do need to stay a little moist.

    I`ve seen Common toads in my garden a couple of times and have a lot of love for them. I know we shouldnt be anthropomorphic, but any creature that always looks like its sulking is a winner in my book.

    Tomorrow I need to do a Red-tailed bumblebee then a Smooth newt. No warts on THAT amphibian, it`ll be a challenge!

    #toad #bufobufo #amphibians #UK amphibians ##naturalhistoryillustration ##naturalscienceillustration #animal art #wildlifeart #sciart #nature
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    Work in progress - an illustration of Cornflowers for a seed packet design. Only the leaves and stems left to do now.

    Cornflower blue used to be a colour that defeated me, but a few years back I found Cobalt Blue plus Opera Rose works really well.

    I loved doing the Red-tailed bumblebee and rhink the orange against the blue is a great design decision by the client, Roselyn Seeds.

    #botanicalillustration #centaurea
    #cornflower #packaging #packaging design #commercialillustration #sciart #nature #meadow #wildflowers ##naturalhistoryillustration #botanicalart #Roselyn
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    Time lapse film of a pencil illustration of a Pear tree.

    Illustration completed for labelling for @cabalvafarm, for their lovely sparkling Perry which is currently in development.

    #timelapse #graphite #pencil #illustration #packaging #pencilillustration ##botanicalillustration #botanicalart
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    “ “Botanical artist Lizzie Harper produces meticulous watercolours of flora and fauna in her celebrations of nature” ”

    Country Living Magazine

    Original Artwork Available to Buy

    “ Lizzie has consistently impressed me with her skill, professionalism and attention to detail ”

    Jenny Campbell, Editor, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

    Links to Lizzie's Workshops, Exhibitions, Cards, and Prints

    Lizzie's latest Posts and Blogs

    Spotted fish

    Spotted fish

    Spotted fish is another of my blogs on patterns in nature.  You can find them all here or click for an overview of pattern in nature, more on stripes, leaf variegation, spots on plants and fugus, and a step by step of a variegated geranium leaf. How spots are formed According to Study.coms post on […] Read more
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    Samon Salmo salar hen fish showing silvery irridescence
    Salmon hen natural history illustration by Lizzie Harper
    Common lizard Lacerta vivipara in field with grasses buttercup and orchids
    Common lizard in field natural history illustration by Lizzie Harper

    Lizzie Harper