#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.

[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 ⚘️🌙

[nimbora-nava]

Maria Sibylla Merian