#botanical study

[dorywhynot]

"Flesh Wound" 2026. Watercolor on hot press, 6x6"

Original artwork available at Every Day Original

The banal viscera of the forest.

One of the smaller pieces that didn't make it into "Fruiting Bodies," but I'm glad I finished it.

I felt a little weird putting pieces like this out there in the first place because at first glance they feel so different from my usual work - they're not figure-based, they're slightly abstract. But.....to my eye, and feel, they're not a deviation at all, but paintings solidified in a different stage of the process. The "what inspires you, where do you get your inspiration from" question is difficult to answer because finding the description between too vague and too specific feels impossible. So much of how I see beauty in visceral decay comes from just...everyday shit, stuff I see in passing, because it's everywhere. "Flesh Wound," for example, is a bit of stump I passed on a walk, and the colors, the texture, the ripped fibrous lines. Just stuck with me. Wanted to paint it, so I did.

[heaveninawildflower]

Botanical study of Autumnal blackberry leaves (1873-1914) by Charlotte Horn Spiers (1844-1914)

Pencil and waterclour.

© Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2024.

[floral-art-prints]

This one unsettles me. And I think that's exactly why I keep returning to it. John Constable's "Study of Flowers in a Hyacinth Glass" is not the Constable anyone expects. No Suffolk skies, no Dedham Vale, no hay wain fording a shallow river. Just a dark glass vase swallowed by shadow, and above it, an eruption - zinnia reds and creamy hydrangea-like whites and those thin blue spires of veronica reaching upward. The light hits from the left and picks favorites ruthlessly. Some blooms glow. Others drown. And down in the lower left corner, a single stem droops and curls away from the arrangement, already giving up. That wilting stalk turns the whole study from pretty to true. The vase barely exists - more absence than object, a mouth of blackness anchoring everything above. Constable painted clouds with more gentleness than he painted these petals. The impasto on the reds is thick and ridged, like he was arguing with the paint. The background isn't neutral - it's a bruised copper, warm and restless. This is a man who painted landscape his entire life suddenly stopping to look at something small, close, mortal. And refusing to prettify it. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com

[pothosrays]

from an assignment

[sardosycserokyric]

Mary Vaux Walcott, Untitled—Study of Mushrooms, 1880, watercolor on paper.

[wilderbas]

for gran 1933-2025

[realstarlume]

Rumex obtusifolius

[asilayheredying]

Blue lotus study in my journal ⚘️🌙