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Scientific Illustration Books and Reference Materials List A list of titles and resources recommended by your fellow GNSI members, perfect for building your reference library! This list is by no means complete; please contact GNSI Communications Director Gail Guth with your suggestions, additions, and corrections. Additional information about art and tool supple can be found in an online appendix to the GNSI Handbook. This list was originally published as an online Appendix for the Guild Handbook of Science Illustration.

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Leaves Redux-

A new book on the architecture of leaves, Manual of Leaf Architecture, by Ellis, Daly, Hickey, Johnson, Mitchell, Wilf and Wing, goes into great detail, assigning names and descriptions to important characters that distinguish different leaves. Size, shape, lobing, surface texture, apex and base and margins all are fully described and named and are characteristics we should be aware of as artists.

Leaves are a vital part of a plant, and in most, the major source of food, because of their function as a photosynthetic factory. Designed to capture the maximum exposure to sunlight with a minimum expense in energy they have a flat, almost two-dimensional blade or lamina. The leaf stalk, known as...