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Heeyoung Kim - Botanical Artist & Instructor @brushwhisperer.bsky.social · Dec 11

US Fish & Wildlife has just announced their proposal to list the monarch as Threatened! I hope we can find ways to protect precious wildlife such as the monarch butterfly. It is one of my favorites to paint. #wildlife

US Fish and Wildlife just proposed to list monarch butterflies as #threatened species. It’s sad to see this coming, but I hope we can find ways to protect precious #wildlife including monarch. I painted a monarch butterfly sitting on a common milkweed flower. I placed two pretty feathers indicating fragile destiny of the monarch butterfly

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Lizzie Harper Illustrator @lizzie-harper.bsky.social · Dec 11

This is the #Hazel #Corylus avellana. It's often a compositional challenge showing all stages of a plant in one #botanicalillustration; flowers, fruit and sometimes autumn leaf colour too - but having drooping catkins, & twigs you can rearrange helps

Day 11 #artadventcalendar #sciart #🐡

Hazel Corylus avellana leaves catkins, and nuts botanical illustration

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Christine Mercer-Vernon| Floral Art @mercer-vernon.com · Dec 10

Day 10 #ArtAdventCalendar already?!? These are my fav #irises, but I planted 4 black varieties so that my change. 😉 But for now, they still hold the top spot in my #garden.

Spring Essentials / 18x14 inch oil on birchwood / 2024
#botanicalart #art #flowers

An oil painting of a pink purple iris. The background is distressed to look like paper with several cup ring marks. One ring features a flying cabbage moth that is draw in graphite. From left to right, there are two pointed iris leaves, one with. an ant crawling up the right side. Nest, there is an iris stem with three unopened buds. The largest bud is at top and just about to unfurl, the petals are a deep purple. Two more leaves peek up through the center with a larger flower stem to the right. One unopened bud peeks up from the bottom of the panel with two more going up the stem. At top sits a fully open iris. the top petals are a light pink purple color, with the three bottom petals in a rich purple magenta color with yellow beards. Two more leaves are to the right of this stem and above them flies a bee positioned from behind as it is flying into the painting.

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Botanical Art and Artists @botanicalart.bsky.social · Dec 9

Who says there are no wild flowers in winter?

Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · Dec 8

Feeling lucky to have got #TheWinter10 earlier this week on the way to/from the hairdresser. Groundsel, Shepherd’s purse, Petty Spurge, Daisy, Annual mercury, Sweet violet, Shepherd’s purse, Winter heliotrope, Common nettle, Red dead nettle and Bristly oxtongue. #WildflowerHour

Close-up photos of Groundsel, Shepherd’s purse, Petty Spurge, Daisy, Annual mercury, Sweet violet, Shepherd’s purse, Winter heliotrope, Common nettle, Red dead nettle and Bristly oxtongue.

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · Dec 6

Inspired by this to look at dye colours in the notebooks of plant biochemist Robert (Robin) Hill (1899-1991), who experimented with plant dyes (and also invented a fish-eye lens for whole-sky cloud photography). MS Add. 9267/B.45 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social

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Botanical Art and Artists @botanicalart.bsky.social · Dec 4

I love the idea of a book about wild flowers - with botanical illustrations - being ordered according to the month they flower in.
"Wild Flowers of the Year" was first published in 1852–1853, and dedicated to Queen Victoria with the monarch's permission
#wildflowers #Botanicalillustration

Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · Nov 30

Lichen cups and moss botanical illustration by Anne Pratt, 1806 – 1893. From wild flowers of the year 1913 edition. #Victorian #Botanicalillustration

A Victorian illustration of lichen cups and moss.

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Botanical Art and Artists @botanicalart.bsky.social · Dec 4

I've created a Starter Pack for all those interested in Botanical Art, Botanical Illustration and associated artists, illustrators and helpful organisations to know more about.

You can find it here. Enjoy!
go.bsky.app/5VpW7Ko

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Botanical Art and Artists @botanicalart.bsky.social · Dec 4

If you're interested in learning more about the history of botanical art and illustration, a good place to start is the History section on my website www.botanicalartandartists.com/history.html
This includes in-depth reviews of Past Masters of Botanical Art and Illustration

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Botanical Art and Artists @botanicalart.bsky.social · Dec 4

An exhibition of #botanical #photography by RHS Gold Medal Winner Laurence Hill can currently be seen in "The Christmas Show" at the Orleans House Gallery in South West London.

You can also see more of his work at www.instagram.com/botanical_ic...

Laurence Hill @botanical-icones.bsky.social · Dec 3

More than 20 members of the bean family are recorded on Ham Lands. Meadow Community at Orleans House Gallery www.orleanshousegallery.org/events/the-w...

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Botanical Art and Artists @botanicalart.bsky.social · Nov 21

Maybe it’s akin to the split between those who paint horticultural subjects which have been painted many times before - and those who illustrate wildflowers / grasses / lichens / mosses which do not get the same attention?

However the topic of most importance is #sustainability & feeding people :)

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Botanical Art and Artists @botanicalart.bsky.social · Nov 21

For all those seriously into the technical side of botany and plant classification. Or maybe just wanting to learn more, why not dip a toe in this starter pack?

go.bsky.app/GCP9Um

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Botanical Art and Artists @botanicalart.bsky.social · Nov 21

One of the things I’ve always found curious is how few botanical artists focus on the plants that we eat.

I’m not talking the nice pretty berries. I’m talking commercial crops and veggies

Stephen Spitewinter @spitewinter.bsky.social · Nov 3

#plants #history
An occasional series.
Triticum Vulgare - Ancient Long-stem Wheat

I thought I'd make a few posts on wheat since it touches all of our lives. A good read is Yuval Noah Harari's 'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind'

Here's an excerpt on wheat -
www.ynharari.com/topic/ecology/

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Botanical Art and Artists @botanicalart.bsky.social · Nov 21

Another account I’m very happy to recommend having followed Lucy for years

Botanical Sketchbooks by Lucy T. Smith @botanicalsketch.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hi everyone, I'm thrilled to be here! I'm a professional botanical artist and illustrator. This account will focus on my botanical sketchbooks, which I've written about in my how-to book "Botanical Sketchbooks, an Artist's Guide to Plant Studies" (The Crowood Press, 2024). 😊

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Botanical Art and Artists @botanicalart.bsky.social · Nov 21

Definitely worth following if you’re interested in botanical art and illustration.

Lucy teaches botanical illustration at Kew as well as working with the botanists there and this year had her first book published - about Botanical Sketchbooks (see link to dedicated account below)

Lucy T. Smith, Botanical Art & Illustration @lucytsmith.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hi everyone! I've been a botanical artist and illustrator for 30 years, and here's where I'll post all about my current (and past) projects. Follow my Botanical Sketchbooks page @botanicalsketch.bsky.social as well, to find out all about my how-to book. 😊

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Botanical Art and Artists @botanicalart.bsky.social · Nov 20

A peek at three of the artworks in “Botanical Blues” at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art in Kew Gardens

shirleysherwood.com/_Botanical-B...

www.kew.org/kew-gardens/...

I’ll be posting more pics in coming days

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Botanical Art and Artists @botanicalart.bsky.social · Nov 20

Yay! Laurence is now on Bluesky

Laurence Hill @botanical-icones.bsky.social · Nov 19

A single Black Mulberry leaf to mark my first post

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Botanical Art and Artists @botanicalart.bsky.social · Nov 19

Below is where I've written this morning about this platform and things to think about before joining.

The most important of which is will the handle you want for your account still be available by the time you get round to registering!

Making A Mark @makingamark.bsky.social · Nov 19

This is a post about announcing I've registered for and got @makingamark.bsky.social
Plus some thoughts and advice for those who might to do likewise.
makingamark.blogspot.com/2024/11/maki...
Interestingly Facebook couldn't cope with this and deleted two posts where I tried to say the same thing...

makingamark is now in a bluer place

About makingamark joining Bluesky Social and things to be mindful of if you decide to follow the millions who have joined in the last week.

makingamark.blogspot.com

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Botanical Art and Artists @botanicalart.bsky.social · Nov 19

I'm always so very pleased to post examples from Dianne's sketchbooks. They are always a joy to review.
#botanicalsketchbook
#botanicalartist
#botanicalillustrator

Dianne Sutherland Artist @diannesutherland.bsky.social · Nov 19

My latest botanical sketckbook is complete. I think there are 62 species over 46 pages in this one. Last page is all about ‘knowing the colours’ hence all those swatches and light to dark subjects- keep it simple with colour and it’s much easy

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Botanical Art and Artists @botanicalart.bsky.social · Nov 19

Here’s the deal on follow-back.
* I have more than one account & this one focuses on botanical art & illustration.
* I’ll follow artists I know & accounts which are predominantly about botanical art.
* If you’re generally interested in art, I will maybe follow you via @makingamark.bsky.social

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Botanical Art and Artists @botanicalart.bsky.social · Nov 18

Lizzie Harper produces #botanical illustrations for a variety of clients
#botanicalillustration

Lizzie Harper Illustrator @lizzie-harper.bsky.social · Nov 18

This #botanicalillustration is the fruit & leaf of the #Spindle #Euonymus europaeus.These colours are even more absurd in real life than in my #sciart #illustration; subjects like this blow my mind & make my job a v. happy one. Opera rose pink paint, anyone? Done for #fsc 's guide to #autumn #fruit

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Botanical Art and Artists @botanicalart.bsky.social · Nov 18

Botanical art is slow art - it often takes years….

This is an outstanding portrayal of fungi by my good friend Sarah Morrish @naturesdetails.bsky.social - currently on display in New York

Sarah Morrish - Illustrating Natures Details @naturesdetails.bsky.social · Nov 16

Here is a painting of mine that was 2-3 years in the making, from fieldwork to finished piece. Now in New York at the botanical gardens in the 'Curious Allies' exhibition with the ASBA. Devil's fingers Clathrus archeri
#mycology #fungi #botanicalart #botanicalillustration

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Botanical Art and Artists @botanicalart.bsky.social · Nov 18

Introducing Botanical Art and Artists to Bluesky.social
My handle is @botanicalart.bsky.social
My website is about
* botanical art and illustration past and present and
* botanical artists and illustrators of today and tomorrow - around the world.
...and I personally know rather a lot of them :)

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