Reed

Oh the tomatoes are adorable!

Augh, this really resonates with me. The desert around me has been crying out for water and it makes me so sad to think about the saguaros starting to die. It doesn't seem all that far off with the way things are going.

Thanks so much!

Thank you! What a hike it was to get the reference photo for it 🌧️

Gorgeous! I especially like the one on the right- it's so evocative, and there's something about moody paintings that I can't get enough of.

I'm also in love with that snake! Your use of color is fabulous, it gives such a serene feeling to your work.

A set of nine paintings on wood panels depicting berries of many species in vibrant colors using watercolor and a wood burning pen.

An oil painting of a rainy day's hike outside of Moab. The rocks are wet and shiny and the trail is soaked and vibrantly colored. The plants look dry and crispy, thankful for the rain after a long time without.

Thanks for hosting, Tisha! I'm Reed, a desert-dweller who's constantly seeking out lush things to paint.

I've been fuming over that update too! Switching to the CamScanner app has worked well enough, but it was nice to have everything in one place. If you try it, I'd upload an existing photo rather than trying to take one in the app.

Thank you! There are more tiles that I know you can't eat than ones you can, but I don't have IDs on all of them. Interesting rule though, I hadn't heard it before.

My personal favorite is the blue, but I do feel like the orange would be more popular in general 🎃

A set of nine wooden panels showing berries of different species on each. The berries are brightly colored with watercolors and outlined with a wood burning tool.

Officially calling it on my (mostly) berries series! It's been so fun to explore the vastly different ways that similar structures express themselves 🫐

Morphology
Watercolor and pyrography pen on panels
5.5"x5.5" each

#art #botanicalart #traditionalart

This would make such a cute bandana!

My garden is barely limping by, and buddy? Same.

Halfway through monsoon season and it's only really rained where I am once. Fed up with this nonsense, take me back to the PNW.

Oh wow, thank you so much! I've only visited the area once and neglected to get a close-up. I didn't realize poison ivy got so big, but other pics online match up with the distant shot plus I'm a desert-dweller so what do I know haha

This is the longest of long shots, but does anybody have an ID for the vines covering the silos at Phinizy Swamp Nature Park outside of Augusta, GA?

#botany #Georgia #nature

Absolutely gorgeous!

Thank you, I look forward to being a part of the feed!

A wooden panel with a wolfberry plant burned into it with a pyrography pen. The plant is colored with watercolors, showing berries from green to yellow and red and gray bark.

Another Tucson berry! The wolfberry plant has such different morphology from the others in this series- it was a real treat to do something a little different.

#art #woodburning #watercolor #botanical

Lovely work, as always! I'm particularly fond of the background on this one.

Oh, for sure! I remember I used to be so bold about that stuff when I was a kid though, I'm trying to recapture that now. It really makes such a difference in how the final piece reads.

The dappled lighting is so lovely!

A laughing in progress of some ferns, half with a purple underpainting and half with green tones. I might have to paint this again in purple...

An oil painting nearing completion of some silos covered in vines behind a grassy field. The sky is blue with a light scattering of clouds, and there are dense trees behind the silos.

A painting (style study of Anthony Hurd's work) in its beginning stages. There is a red underpainting, with a layer of black outlining the focus of the painting- prickly pears with grass behind them.

All three (plus some other projects) are getting more attention than a single painting usually gets from me

This is one of those rare times when I have both the time and the energy to paint a bunch and it's so nice 😭 I'll be starting a new job soon and I'm trying to cram as much as I can in

Absolutely lovely, and very cool to see how your style's evolved over the last few years.

Got alt text for the closeups but forgot this one- five paintings of agaves viewed from above in shades of blues and greens, each with a different stylistic twist. The paintings are all different sizes, and are on a light green background.

I lied, this one's not an agave, it's an aloe. Viewed from above, the plant is a vibrant, bright green. It looks as though it's almost glowing.

This one's actually an agave. Also viewed from above, this one is green with gold spines along its leaves and deep blue shadows.

This softly blue agave has smooth edges ending in dark spines. The shading is smooth, and you can see the imprints the leaves leave on each other as the plant grows out from the center.

The most stylized piece of the group, this agave has black outlines of its leaves and spines. The plant is a light blue, fading through to a pale green at its brightest points.

Closeups of the four I haven't posted yet.

This agave series from a couple years ago was such a fun way to explore different painting styles. Their arrangement is meant to mimic the way agave pups sprout up around the mother plant 🌱

#art #oilpainting #botanical #traditionalart

Hey I love progress pictures so much. Half of my painting process is stitching them together and staring at it.

#art #oilpainting #landscape

A wood burning of a fruiting lords-and-ladies (Arum italicum I think?) colored in vibrant watercolors, fading from green through yellow and orange to red as the fruits ripen.

Forbidden snack if I ever saw one.

#art #traditionalart #botanical #watercolor