Everyone please behold this baby tree:
It's so much smaller than the support posts, they had to secure it with caution tape.
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Everyone please behold this baby tree:
It's so much smaller than the support posts, they had to secure it with caution tape.
Patreon voted to challenge me to do botanical sketches!
So I’m challenging myself to do them in Clip studio, and to make them all plants native to my state :)
If you wanna see the stuff I don’t post anywhere else, get early access to comms, free downloads and behind the scenes looks at my work, and vote in silly polls to make me draw stuff you can join my patreon :)
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California Valley Collage
Fox broken up by native licorice, Glycyrrhiza lepidota, with Mount Diablo and Valley oaks
Thank you, @puk128 , for what may be my first official Snapshot Ask! Apologies for the screenshot here, courtesy of my email. While industriously jettisoning spam earlier, I accidentally (and temporarily) blocked you. Onward to the (interesting) bugs and (forgotten) flowers!
First off, these oak gall wasp eggs on a Valley Oak leaf.
Second, an easily overlooked, but not actually easily forgotten, springtime flower. Here is a snapshot through a car window, where you can see that it's easy to miss.
And here's the beauty up close. Hartweg's iris, aka Rainbow iris or Sierra iris, endemic to California.
Thanks again! I'm smiling as I type.
Smilodon Skull and Valley Oak Leaves, 9"x12" Acrylic and paint markers on birch panel.
Inspired by a trip to LA a few years ago. I visited the La Brea tar pits, as I had wanted to for a really long time.
Late Summer California
Serotinal
August 2024
Chris O'Mahony
Pic from a recent field trip to research Dorothea Lange