Botanical canvas art consists in rendering replicas of botanical specimens on canvas with utmost scientific accuracy. You can employ various different rendering techniques to achieve the best effect. One of this is to use a paint brush to manually paint your way to achieve the desired result.

Using oil paint, acrylics, or water colors, and paint brushes to do so requires great skill. It also requires a sense of proportion, considerable practice and experience, and also a certain level of knowledge of botanical science.

You also need to know about the best type of canvas to select for painting. It must have a certain heaviness of weight. It should not crack with time. Moreover, it must not become brittle with time. The canvas needs to be stretched proportionally in the supporting fixture.

Scientific accuracy of botanical structure is an important element in botanical art rendering. Therefore, a background in botanical science is necessary to achieve the desired accuracy.

Moreover, the best results are achieved in botanical canvas art by manual painting compared with other techniques. You will find that especially depiction of the exact color shade of a botanical specimen is not as difficult as with mechanical methods of rendering. However, you need to use pigments that will not fade with time.

To use the exact level of background contrast and shadows requires the greatest skill in botanical art rendering. However, once you get the hang of it, it adds the correct amount of liveliness to botanical art.

Today Giclee (photo) canvas art is used predominantly in a big way to render botanical art on canvas on a commercial scale. The original botanical specimen is photographed using a digital camera and the image is then transferred to a computer. It is then scanned and edited. Thereafter, it is printed on a canvas swatch using an appropriate inkjet printer.

The commercialization of botanical canvas art has resulted in a spate of framed and unframed botanical art canvasses being put up in art galleries and homes all over the world. It has reduced the divide among people who could earlier not afford to have botanical art adorning their drawing rooms and those rich enough.

Today armed with the requisite technological equipments, even a professional photographer can churn out botanical canvas art and reap substantial profits. The equipment needed includes a 10 megapixel digital camera, a computer, a high quality scanner with appropriate software, and high quality photo editing software. It also includes an inkjet printer that can roll out botanical art prints on canvas.