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Re: [GWL]: Copyright-free illustrations

There's a wonderful book called "The Plant Kingdom Compendium," 374 pages
long, edited by Jim Harter. It's probably out of print, but if you can get
one that has not been cut to shreds for pasteups, it's worth it. It contains
thousands of well-reproduced and identified horticultural engravings, mostly
Victorian and Edwardian. Some of the same pictures are in the Dover books,
but there is so much more here. The botanical names are out of date in some
cases, but that is better than nothing!

Also you can make auto-prints of leaves and flowers by spreading them with
black printers ink and using them like a rubber stamp. Similarly, you can
put them (un-inked!) on a flat-bed scanner, if they are flat. Ferns and
grasses look cool, and the scans are your own unique artworks you won't see
anywhere else.

Another idea is to give an internship (usually for school credit, not pay)
to a teenager who can draw, and have him or her make you a lots of plant
drawings, for the future. Be sure you get the right to publish the work, as
a work-for-hire, and give the student credit and multiple copies of anything
published.

-- Betty Mackey, Publisher
B. B. Mackey Books
bbmackey@prodigy.net

----- Original Message ----- >
> From: Susi Torre-Bueno <jdelatorre@ixpres.com>
>
> >As the editor of the monthly 26-page newsletter of the San Diego
> >Horticultural Society, I'm always on the lookout for copyright-free line
> >art and illustrations of plants.  While I prefer to have them identified
> >by species, sometimes an illustration of a non-specific rose or iris or
> >cactus will suffice.  Many of the illustrations I use now come from the
> >Dover Press books, which are great, but I'm looking for more sources.
> >
> >If you could please e-mail me with some of your favorite sources of this
> >type of artwork, I'd be most appreciative.
> >
> >Susi Torre-Bueno
 >

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