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C.R. Gill Art
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Finished the chicken-of-the-woods mushrooms paiting from the plein air reference.

#fungi #botanicalart #painting #watersolubleencaustic #mushrooms
Shelf shaped, flat, mushrooms stacked on and around each other that start orange at the base and move to yellow feathered edges.
October 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM Everybody can reply
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C.R. Gill Art
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Finished this one today. It will go to Cline House gallery after it dries and is varnished.

#botanicalart #bloomsky #invertibrate #painting #watersolubleencaustic
Water soluble encaustic painting of a cluster of ghost pipes growing out of a black background. These plants are parasitic on fungi and have no pigment. The pipes in the painting have blue and pink shadows because that's what I saw in the field. A bumblebee hovers nearby because these are flowers, bees polinate them.
October 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM Everybody can reply
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C.R. Gill Art
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Redid this design. I like this version better.

#botanicalart #orchids #bloomsky #painting #watersolubleencaustic
A painting of a stem of magenta orchids on a stem with buds at the end.
September 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM Everybody can reply
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C.R. Gill Art
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I got some good news today. The series that includes this mushroom painting will be in a show and sale at Cline House gallery (Cornwall, Ontario) this December. There will be five fungi and plant portraits in the series.

#watersolubleencaustic #art #painting #ottawaartist
Painting of a cluster of orange jack o'lantern mushrooms on a black background.
September 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM Everybody can reply
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C.R. Gill Art
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I was plein air painting with friends on a lake in Quebec yesterday.

Water soluble encaustic on beige paper

#pleinair #landscape #scape #watersolubleencaustic #painting
Painting of two ceder trees, one alive and one dead, stretched out horizontally over a lake with treed hills in the background.
August 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM Everybody can reply
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C.R. Gill Art
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Mushrooms are such fantastically organic forms. Finished piece.

Water soluble encaustic on black 3.0 primed wood.

#botanicalart #sciart #painting #watersolubleencaustic #fungi #mushrooms
A painting of a cluster of orange jack o'lantern mushrooms on black background.
July 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM Everybody can reply
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C.R. Gill Art
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Some of these will be on display at Orchidphilia, Ottawa, April 26-27th.

Water soluable encaustic on black 3.0

#sciart #orchids #flowers #watersolubleencaustic
Five paintings of different colored orchids against black backgrounds laying on a table.
April 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM Everybody can reply
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C.R. Gill Art
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Water soluable encaustic on a black 2.0 base.

#februarty #magenta #painting #art #watersolubleencaustic #encaustic #skull #stilllife
A water soluable encaustic painting of the upper half of a human skull sitting partially behind a stoppered glass jar containing a pink brain sitting on a table top in front of a black background.
February 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM Everybody can reply
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C.R. Gill Art
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Januarty: Opposites. Alive and dead.

#januarty #WaterSolubleEncaustic #fungifriends #painting #fungi #ottawaArtist #canart
Water soluble encaustic painting on a black 2.0 base. A skeletal human jaw bone with a large bundle of yellow oyster mushrooms fruiting where the rest of the skull would be.
January 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM Everybody can reply
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C.R. Gill Art
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There is a snowstorm here. Have a sketch from a warmer time.

#WaterSolubleEncaustic #painting #sketch #stilllife #bones #mushrooms #fungi #fromlife
Water soluble encaustic sketch of a small leg bone beside a yellow chanterelle on blue paper.
February 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM Everybody can reply
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C.R. Gill Art
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My succulents are blooming.

Water soluble encaustic on black paper.

#botanicalart #succulent #watersolubleencaustic #painting
A green-blue thick-leaved succulent with purpleish markings on the edge and center of the leaves. A pale flower stem rises from the side and squiggles around the page above the main plant. Small leaves sparcely cover the stem and pink and white triangular flowers line it. The end of the stem is covered in green buds.
July 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM Everybody can reply
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Finished the wrinkled peach mushrooms.

#watersolubleencaustic #sculpture #sciart #fungi #painting
A series of wrinkled peach mushrooms on a brown background with beetle damage paterns that look like long-legged alien insects. The age of the mushrooms increases from the top right to bottom left. Going from tiny with darker pink base and bright white wrinkles to flat wide peachier with less white wrinkles.
August 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM Everybody can reply
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C.R. Gill Art
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Bearded irises. Water soluble encaustic on paper.

#pleinair #watersolubleencaustic #sciart #botanicalart
Painting of an extravagant purple bearded iris on grey paper. The clump of purple irises are blooming despite the smoke because they are like that.
June 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM Everybody can reply
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C.R. Gill Art
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Jack o'lantern mushrooms. No, they are not edible. They are very poisonous.

#pleinair #painting #watersolubleencaustic #mushrooms #art #sciart
On a painting stand outside, is a painting of a cluster of orange mushrooms on black paper. An even brighter patch of real orange jack o'lantern mushrooms is on the forest floor in front of the painting.
July 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM Everybody can reply
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