TwoLips

It's Spring & the flowers are smiling!
Photoshop sketch (for the eternal painting).

Alien Species

Further fauna-flora for you-know-what!

Buttonblossoms

More flora from the painting-in-progress. I love embroidery but rarely find the time to do it these days. I was remembering fondly the little flowers I made as a child, using buttons & lazy-daisy stitch, & I thought how funny it would be if you actually saw them growing in the garden... well, they'll be growing in the painting instead!

Return of the Spring

Feeling very Springy lately! Not only has my favorite season returned in its full glory, but I have a new, old 1940's watch (from the Fleam) that requires winding, & it's making me think at least once a day about clockworks & their intricate springy beauty.

And besides, I'll take any excuse to draw curlicues & tendrils! How convenient that I'm working on the flora in my painting right now... this is one of many oddflower designs, more to come soon!

Photoshop with background illo added from Scientific American Handy Book of Facts and Formulae, 1918.

Mr. Ghostflower

As I was sketching out some flora for my painting (working in Photoshop), I flipped a flower & it made me think of a starry-eyed, mustachioed face, so I decided to add nose & lip forms just for the fun of it.

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p.s. I almost forgot-- this started out as an experiment in shades of ivory, prompted by IF. Much as I adore color, I've always been fascinated by the ivory carvings & grisaille work on altarpieces, &c. As with black & white photographs, there is a certain special clarity and depth about them. (I was thinking of these pieces when I did my Flea Circus painting too.)

Totally Tubulose

Is it a fallen flower? A long-leggity oddment doing the backstroke? Or something completely different?

All I know for sure is that it's a curiotype.

Photoshop with text from The Practical Standard Dictionary.

Labiate

A sea creature influenced by lippy flowers may seem odd, but I ask you, is it (or anything) really any odder than the Sarcastic Fringehead!?

(Thanks to comic creator/arcane animal sleuth Isaac for introducing me to that one!)

This Curiotype is brought to you by the letter L.

Photoshop with text from Gray's Introduction to Structural & Systemic Botany, 1876

Julaceous

Ever since I first encountered pussy willows as a little girl I've had a soft spot for catkins. This particular (Curiotypical) species appears indecisive until one examines its terminal floret.

(Click if you dare.)

Photoshop with text from Gray's Introduction to Structural & Systemic Botany, 1876

Bottleblossom

Yep, this is from that painting!

Digital (Photoshop) with paint & text

See it in action (kindasorta) here

Ecosystem

Yet another sketch for the aforementioned painting!

Digital with elements from antique maps