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Lupine and Fawns (detail) (boiled lupine petal extract, acrylic, pen on Arches paper)

Milkweed and Snow Leopards (boiled black bean extract, acrylic, pencil, pen on Arches paper)

Announcement for baby Nora

Milkweed and Snow Leopards (detail 02) (boiled black bean extract, acrylic, pencil, pen on Arches paper)

Sketchbook: Boiled Poppy Petal Extract and ink

Travel Drawings (June)

Echevaria and Water Buffaloes (full piece) (boiled black lentil extract, acrylic, pencil, pen on Arches paper)

Echevaria and Water Buffaloes (detail 02, in process) (boiled black lentil extract, acrylic, pencil, pen on Arches paper)

Natural Materials Series: Echevaria and Water Buffaloes (detail, in process) (boiled black lentil extract, acrylic, pencil, pen on Arches paper)

Plumeria and Maned Wolf (new detail) (boiled red onion skin extract, acrylic, pen, pencil on Arches paper).

Gelsemium and Mongoose (full piece) (three kinds of tea (black, red, hibiscus), acrylic, pen, pencil on paper)

Jessamine and Mongoose (detail 01) (three kinds of tea (black, red, hibiscus), acrylic, pen, pencil on paper)

Plumeria and Maned Wolf (full piece) (boiled red onion skin extract, acrylic, pen, pencil on Arches paper).

Plumeria and Maned Wolf (detail 02) (boiled red onion skin extract, acrylic, pen, pencil on Arches paper).

Plumeria and Maned Wolf (detail) (boiled red onion skin extract, acrylic, pen, pencil on Arches paper).

Plumeria (detail; boiled red onion extract, pen, pencil, acrylic on Arches paper)

2 new pieces using natural materials as ink/pigment: liquefied purple cabbage (top) and liquefied blueberries (bottom).

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