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Just received this beautiful newsletter the old fashioned way. How exciting to receive mail that’s not a bill! Thank you @dananobledesign Your drawing is beautiful!

#yougotmail #mail #letters #newsletter #botanicalillustrations #botanical #oa

Will you keep me company once I dissolve?

How exciting that I came upon an Earth Star in the garden! In my own backyard. We do not need to travel so far to witness the beauty outside. 💚
Maybe this is an earth ball? I truly don’t know.

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Tashi Delek and good morning! This week has been filled with pollinators despite only getting 4 hours of sun in the garden. The fritillaries stood out and so this is what I drew in my PJ. I counted 15 Gulf fritillaries, many native bees, skippers, hu

This tree is my favorite tree and a favorite to draw their leaves. I drew this for my Botanical Drawing Class that I just recently completed. Yay! ✍🏻 Now I will hand it over to Poplar…

My botanical name is Liriodendron tulipifera, but my fri

Last week to make an entry in this Perpetual Journal spread. I have been having problems taking pictures and had separated from my Canvas light for awhile. I am learning to work with them again. It isn’t as intuitive as one might think. Maybe t

Happy Friday! Working on my final project for Botanical Drawing. 20+ hours already clocked in for these rendering’s. Here I am tracing the back outline of the drawing (3rd render). This will be transferred to the oh so yummy nice paper. Then I

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20 years today! How exciting to be married between hurricanes. Enjoying the moments we share together. So grateful for all of them. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️+❤️to grow.

Someone knows how to warm my botanical heart. I believe this is Quercus shumardii, Shumard Oak. Behind the leaves they have tufts of hairs in the main vein axils. They are fuzzy cute. Also you can tell they are in the Red Oak group because of their b

I never spent so much time with one leaf and I’m not even done yet! Next step is to transfer all to paper and I still have another two drawings to draw. What a great teacher @gayemgart and experience I am having in NYBG Drawing I class. ✍️
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Working on my contour assignment for botanical drawing I class. Building my skills one week at a time and learning so much that my head is 🤯. I never thought I would be drawing fruits. 🍐

Wishing everyone a happy and safe weekend. 💚OM TARE TU TARE

Happy National Dog Day! Pema said she is not impressed. 🐾

#nationaldogday #urbanliving #coastalliving #zeusrescues #rescuedogsofinstagram #maltipoo #kalayasteede

Pen and watercolor of Louisiana’s native shrub, Callicarpa americana (American Beautyberry). Look at this berries! The berries aren’t really berries at all. They are actually considered drupes (like a cherry) because there is a seed for e

Progress…I’m letting this piece rest for now. I may tweak it a little before firing but for the time being…

Do not think that time merely flies away. Do not see flying away as the only function of time. If time merely flies away,

Working on a drawing of a Mamou seed pod on vitreous enamel and thinking about my first class (this week) at NYBG (New York Botanical Garden) in Botanical Drawing I. It is a program workings towards a certification in botanical art and illustration.

Happy Friday! For some reason I love Fridays.

Who doesn’t love a spotted Beebalm? One of La. native wildflowers. They can be over the top but if you snip, snip they will behave. If you see one take a leaf but ask first! They have a very distin

I call this piece Lotus Moon. Inspired by Rengetsu’s poem ‘Death Verse’

How I hope to pass away
While gazing at a round moon
In a cloudless sky that
Shines over lotus flowers
In full bloom.
~Rengetsu

vitreous enamel, underglaze

Fuego lets you know who is in control and it’s never me. No doubt that enameling has an element of surprise. Fuego and I seem to push each other around. I won’t lie about my disappoint of the last firing (image 1). However, this can lead

R. fulgida (Yellow-orange petals) and Eryngium aquaticum (silver-blue flowers) remind me that the first cold front will be here soon but R. submentosa (not pictured or drawn) is the one who really reminds me that fall is around the corner. These nati

Becoming…

Although it’s late in the day it cannot stop the process. Lotus Moon wants to bloom.
#vitreousenamel #botanical #drawing #botanicalart #colours #becoming #emptiness #impermeanance #studioartist #enamelart #kalayasteede

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