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#botanicalart

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Françoise Vaal mixed media art
This photograph was made in early spring. I noticed the beautiful shapes of ‘leftover’ reed from the year before. They seemed to be dancing. This inspired me to create the series called ‘Dances’. The reed is not only beautiful in full bloom but also when they have weathered storms. It is then that they reveal their elegance in unique forms. A story of resilience and transformation. This one I named ‘Jazz’ . As in jazz hands 😀 #artbynature #botanicalart #plantart #resilience #transformation #photography #fineart
Photograph by mixed media artist Francoise Vaal, depicting a weathered reed plant dancing in the wind. This piece of botanical artwork is part of Francoise’s Dances series.
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neocolonial malcontent chic

The Moon has been void of course almost all of today; of course my chronic pain and PMS are VERY up 🙃 I've been gently but firmly disabused of any notions of productivity at this time by my guides.

The time spent sketching in the garden — just devoting myself to a subject and keeping my hands busy — was medicinal. My mood did plummet with the Sun, but I peeked into my diary to remind myself of the experience of keeping company with the tulsī. It reminds me every time of the absolute fire that Kahlil Gibran wrote into this line: "The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."

One useful way of not letting perfectionism impede my creativity, I've found, is reminding myself that I'm only scrambling for an imaginary perfection because I don't yet know what I personally want to see here. And until I've figured it out, I'm allowed to wreck things a bit.

#RetreatPosting 🌘

Closeup in the afternoon sunshine of a notebook with a cool brown linen-wrapped hardcover, with pieces of (warm-toned) brown packing paper tucked into and laid on top of the notebook, secured with binder clips. The notebook is held on the lap, dressed in a bright crimson "nightie" (in the local parlance) with a small square white + green + yellow + black print. Of the brown paper on top, only the top right corner and a bit downwards is visible. It contains a portion of an ink pen sketch of a part of a tulsī (Ocimum tenuiflorum) plant, plus a portion of a diary entry: "... quite sick when I began today..." In the lower background, there's a blurred garden lit up gold-green in the 2 pm sun.
The full sketch of a portion of the tulsī (Ocimum tenuiflorum) plant, plus some of my diary entry: "... quite sick when I began today, and I began by wanting to do something else, but the tulsi demanded my attention more. There was comfort..."
The full sketch of a portion of the tulsī (Ocimum tenuiflorum) plant, plus some of my diary entry, but this time with two additions: colour sampling (incorrectly labelled "colour swatching" on the page) the tulsī, with notes overwriting a small part of the written diary-work and in the top central-right. The experiment was both overwriting portions of the written diary-work and creating a layered look, and an aesthetic where the sketch itself is not coloured in, but the immediate background of the sketch has the colour sampling.
#MastoArt#TraditionalArt#Sketching
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Mandy Allen

This is me cutting a new custom die which I will use to punch flowers for a wall sculpture for my upcoming show @albertastreetgallery. It's made out of tool steel, so it takes a really long time and lots of broken saw blades. #restingsawface #process #artistsonmastodon #artistatwork #portlandartist #allenmetalarts #floraljewelry #sculpture #homedecor #metalart #aluminumsculpture #artjewelry #sculpture #homedecor #metalart #floralart #botanicalart

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Julé Cunningham

To vividly make the natural world available to his visually impaired students, in turn-of-the-20th-century Alsace-Lorraine, Martin Kunz came up with a way of embossing dampened, thick paper with accurate, detailed depictions of plants and animals from around the world to which he added braille descriptions.
#braille #TactileGraphics #PaperArt #BotanicalArt
thisiscolossal.com/2025/01/mar

Colossal · Turn-of-the-Century Tactile Graphics Illustrate Nature for People Who Are BlindThe library of the Perkins School for the Blind holds a collection of dozens of Martin Kunz's tactile graphics.
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