Are artists born?

[FionaH]

YAAAAY The Grapes

Thank you all, there is something in every single post on this thread that helps me

What? Even the one about me putting pencils in your ear?

You know I am noticing a lot of art teachers here abouts, wonder if that ties in with creating gardens? We have loads of crafty, making things sort of grapes too. Wonderful bunch of arteeests aren't we?

[piskieinboots]

What? Even the one about me putting pencils in your ear?

aye even that lass - cos it would surely help me concentrate

[SueA]

Piskie, buy some tracing paper!
As some of the others have said I think that 'Garden Design' drawing is a bit different from strictly 'artistic' drawing in that you can make use of rulers, pastry cutters, set squares etc. to draw the various shapes you need on a garden plan & I would imagine a very basic sketch with some pretty & descriptive writing would be enough for a plant profile. Good luck with the course, bet you'll love it.

[piskieinboots]

Piskie, buy some tracing paper!

already did

... pastry cutters.

hehe

[Hilary B]

GREAT artists are born AND made. They have a natural talent but they still had to learn how to use it.
Reasonable artists are those who have developed a talent that was rather more modest in the first place.
The first stage of drawing is to learn to see things as a series of lines and shapes, rather than as familiar items (that you probably never really look at at all, you know what is there, but perhaps not what you would SEE if you looked at it).
Design (garden or otherwise) is part art, part technical drawing, but the art is in putting things (plants, walls etc) together, not in drawing them!