Brittany Hass
@paperglee.bsky.social
Designer and analog illustrator, mostly botanical. Likes to knit. Instagram escapee. Visit paperglee.com for shop, newsletter, blog, and more!
#day10 of #artadventcalendar: my painting for an artist Telephone Game. Each artist received only another artist's submission as a prompt, with no context. The one I got was a video of squashing avocados. Thru the botanical artist filter— Voila! telephonegame.art/artists/brittany-hass
December 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
#day10 of #artadventcalendar: my painting for an artist Telephone Game. Each artist received only another artist's submission as a prompt, with no context. The one I got was a video of squashing avocados. Thru the botanical artist filter— Voila! telephonegame.art/artists/brittany-hass
For #artadventcalendar #day9 , a cactus trio I painted in a class thru Denver Botanic Gardens' School of Botanical Art and Illustration. This was in colored pencil, watercolor, and gouache. I think I spent more time on the silly little rocks than the plants... Whose idea was this composition?!
December 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
For #artadventcalendar #day9 , a cactus trio I painted in a class thru Denver Botanic Gardens' School of Botanical Art and Illustration. This was in colored pencil, watercolor, and gouache. I think I spent more time on the silly little rocks than the plants... Whose idea was this composition?!
For #day8 of #artadventcalendar ... A pothos and piano painting I sat on for YEARS and then finally finished recently. I really love it so I'm glad it hasn't sold. It's gouache and I underpainted with metallic gold, so a lot of that shows thru 💖 Who else grew up with Schirmer editions like this?
December 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
For #day8 of #artadventcalendar ... A pothos and piano painting I sat on for YEARS and then finally finished recently. I really love it so I'm glad it hasn't sold. It's gouache and I underpainted with metallic gold, so a lot of that shows thru 💖 Who else grew up with Schirmer editions like this?
For #day7 of #artadventcalendar my pile of interesting, to-be-drawn bits of wood! Any botanical illustrator has a stash like this. 🤪 I'll draw them eventually!!!
December 8, 2025 at 12:17 AM
For #day7 of #artadventcalendar my pile of interesting, to-be-drawn bits of wood! Any botanical illustrator has a stash like this. 🤪 I'll draw them eventually!!!
#artadventcalendar #day5 is a look at my workshop print for today. I've already had several excited art makers come thru and make custom prints with this set! There are 5 modular vertical strips to this one. I have several other pieces that can rotate in 🤩
December 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
#artadventcalendar #day5 is a look at my workshop print for today. I've already had several excited art makers come thru and make custom prints with this set! There are 5 modular vertical strips to this one. I have several other pieces that can rotate in 🤩
#artadventcalendar #day5 is more progress on my big old crabapple tree in carbon dust. You can really see some of the colored pencil color popping from the reverse side of the film here! #carbondust #botanicalillustration
December 6, 2025 at 2:39 AM
#artadventcalendar #day5 is more progress on my big old crabapple tree in carbon dust. You can really see some of the colored pencil color popping from the reverse side of the film here! #carbondust #botanicalillustration
For #artadventcalendar #day4 ... A little unfurling monstera leaf in colored pencil on a tiny cradled wood panel. These little guys are especially nice to walk past on the wall as the drawing interacts with the edges of the panel, changing the composition at different angles. #botanicalillustration
December 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
For #artadventcalendar #day4 ... A little unfurling monstera leaf in colored pencil on a tiny cradled wood panel. These little guys are especially nice to walk past on the wall as the drawing interacts with the edges of the panel, changing the composition at different angles. #botanicalillustration
#artadventcalendar #day3 is a throwback to the inaugural Sunday Sketching outing I helped coordinate as part of the board of @rmsbartists.bsky.social . We met to draw in the Boettcher Conservatory at Denver Botanic Gardens. We've kept it up all year! LMK if you are local and would like to join us.
December 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
#artadventcalendar #day3 is a throwback to the inaugural Sunday Sketching outing I helped coordinate as part of the board of @rmsbartists.bsky.social . We met to draw in the Boettcher Conservatory at Denver Botanic Gardens. We've kept it up all year! LMK if you are local and would like to join us.
For #artadventcalendar #day2 I am sharing an in progress image of the carbon dust tree illustration I made early in 2025. The original is now touring with @rmsbartists.bsky.social Trees juried show in Colorado and Wyoming. I'll share some more updates on this later in the month! #carbondust #art
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
For #artadventcalendar #day2 I am sharing an in progress image of the carbon dust tree illustration I made early in 2025. The original is now touring with @rmsbartists.bsky.social Trees juried show in Colorado and Wyoming. I'll share some more updates on this later in the month! #carbondust #art
For #artadventcalendar #day1 (reposting cuz forgot alt)... A linoleum printed notebook cover I made last January for my design clients and connections. It shows the mnemonic of using your knuckles to remember the lengths of the months, which I use all the time! #linoleumprint
December 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
For #artadventcalendar #day1 (reposting cuz forgot alt)... A linoleum printed notebook cover I made last January for my design clients and connections. It shows the mnemonic of using your knuckles to remember the lengths of the months, which I use all the time! #linoleumprint
Not bad for my first ever blueberry pie!! Excited to dig in after dinner. #blueberrypie #thanksgiving #pie #humbleamericandessert
November 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Not bad for my first ever blueberry pie!! Excited to dig in after dinner. #blueberrypie #thanksgiving #pie #humbleamericandessert
#blueskyartshow #small Microworld I found hiking in Waterton this summer 😍
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
#blueskyartshow #small Microworld I found hiking in Waterton this summer 😍
Muahahaha my plan is coming together! Modular linoleum print series 😍 couple more kinks to still work out but it's pretty much ready for the workshop I have coming up at a local gallery. #linoleumprinting #linoleum #linoprint #modularprint
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Muahahaha my plan is coming together! Modular linoleum print series 😍 couple more kinks to still work out but it's pretty much ready for the workshop I have coming up at a local gallery. #linoleumprinting #linoleum #linoprint #modularprint
Just dropped this and several other originals and prints off at Arvada Center for their Holiday Market. I can't wait to go back and see the show all set up, it was positively buzzing with artsy energy today in the main gallery! The show opens Thanksgiving weekend and runs thru Dec 14 😍
November 14, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Just dropped this and several other originals and prints off at Arvada Center for their Holiday Market. I can't wait to go back and see the show all set up, it was positively buzzing with artsy energy today in the main gallery! The show opens Thanksgiving weekend and runs thru Dec 14 😍
We found it too! In very light polluted South Aurora, out my window!!!
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
We found it too! In very light polluted South Aurora, out my window!!!
I couldn't NOT buy the Jolene shirt. But I get it stuck in my head every time I look in the mirror 🤪 Good thing it's such a banger.
October 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I couldn't NOT buy the Jolene shirt. But I get it stuck in my head every time I look in the mirror 🤪 Good thing it's such a banger.
Had a great, meditative morning sketching session at @denverbotanic.bsky.social this morning with other @rmsbartists.bsky.social members! I drew Lions paw, which I had not noticed before. Super cute bright orange floofballs. #pleinair #sketchbook #botanical #art
September 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Had a great, meditative morning sketching session at @denverbotanic.bsky.social this morning with other @rmsbartists.bsky.social members! I drew Lions paw, which I had not noticed before. Super cute bright orange floofballs. #pleinair #sketchbook #botanical #art
An elder millennial AND an artist?! The "really good box" pile is no joke.
September 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
An elder millennial AND an artist?! The "really good box" pile is no joke.
Came back after dinner to try to block more shapes in. A bit more to go before I will refund. Haven't decided if I will add a background color or leave the underpainting, I kind of dig it... #botanicalart #gouache #paintsky
September 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Came back after dinner to try to block more shapes in. A bit more to go before I will refund. Haven't decided if I will add a background color or leave the underpainting, I kind of dig it... #botanicalart #gouache #paintsky
A bigger gouache on panel piece than I have done before! I enjoyed sketching in the garden under the squash trellis today 💚 #gouache #painting #gardenart #wip
September 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
A bigger gouache on panel piece than I have done before! I enjoyed sketching in the garden under the squash trellis today 💚 #gouache #painting #gardenart #wip
Finished printing this edition of 20 slugbugs full of sunflowers 😊 Meet "Helianthus annuus x Bug" , second in my silly little series. Cranfield safewash ink in 3 colors on translucent Thai paper. #linoprint #linocut #art #printmaking
August 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Finished printing this edition of 20 slugbugs full of sunflowers 😊 Meet "Helianthus annuus x Bug" , second in my silly little series. Cranfield safewash ink in 3 colors on translucent Thai paper. #linoprint #linocut #art #printmaking
After much finagling, finally close on this little print of sunflowers in a beetle 🚗🌻 in 3 layers of lino. NOT doing a reduction print presents its own set of challenges for sure 🤪 I'll have these for sale labor day weekend with any luck! #linoprint #printmaking #sunflower #summer #yellow
August 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
After much finagling, finally close on this little print of sunflowers in a beetle 🚗🌻 in 3 layers of lino. NOT doing a reduction print presents its own set of challenges for sure 🤪 I'll have these for sale labor day weekend with any luck! #linoprint #printmaking #sunflower #summer #yellow
My son saved seeds from a farmers market gourd he bought two years ago to make a guitar out of. We now have oodles of gourd vine on an 8 ft hoop and quite a few gourds all over 😜 Aren't they awesome?! #gardensky #birdhousegourd
August 18, 2025 at 4:20 AM
My son saved seeds from a farmers market gourd he bought two years ago to make a guitar out of. We now have oodles of gourd vine on an 8 ft hoop and quite a few gourds all over 😜 Aren't they awesome?! #gardensky #birdhousegourd
Might still tweak this but I'm pretty happy with it. I haven't done a lot of landscapes but they're really relaxing! May do more... #art #gouache #glacierpark #nps
August 2, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Might still tweak this but I'm pretty happy with it. I haven't done a lot of landscapes but they're really relaxing! May do more... #art #gouache #glacierpark #nps