#botanical illustration
Book Review: The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food
Book Review: The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food
If you’re new to gardening, starting a garden can be quite intimidating. The learning curve can seem steep and the barriers to enty can feel vast. Having a beautiful, productive garden like those you might see around your neighborhood can seem like an unreachable goal. What isn’t obvious when encountering nice gardens are the mistakes made, the lessons learned, and the years of trial and error…
A pacific northwest themed commission! Autumn fern and bumblebee, the whole thing only 8.5″x11″. Eye-melting detail is my bread and butter so this was a real treat.
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Fruit of the Womb: The Botanical Classification of Fruit
I created this illustration to tell the story of where fruits come from. Turns out they come from flowers, and that’s why a tomato is technically a fruit. What started as a fun conversation over dinner this summer spiralled into a deep exploration into pomology, carpology, and botanical literature. Here is my attempt at visualizing all the information I’ve synthesized over these past few months into a useful reference guide.
Hope you learned something new today.
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New postcards, new prints!
Okra!
the Dyolet fruit, medicinal and healing, and a delicacy within the Empire, found only in the Velvin Thicket
(one of two pieces for @tgtw-project✷)
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this one’s from France as well, my watercolour study of a beautiful nerium oleander got interrupted by a refreshing summer rain
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Passiflora caerulea watercolour illustration
This beautiful blue passionflower plant grew right in front of our tent in France - what a good time that was!
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