Do you like to propagate plants on your windowsill? Our windowsills are brimming with plant starts.
I also like doing starts as a bouquet. You can see a few stems starting to send out roots in the painting. The plants pictured here are Shiso, Jasmine, Verbena, Cornflowers, and Fennel.
Bees found the bouquet! This means we’ve both propagated and pollinated. It also means that I need to get screen doors.
The stems of the nasturtiums sprouted roots quickly. I also planted seeds to compare the health of the resulting plants. The seeds came from our garden crop of vine-style nasturtiums, and I did not soak or winter them over. They look like little brains. Turns out the seeds grew faster and stronger than the starts.
I started including my hand with a paintbrush in the rock climbing series. Hopefully, the viewer enjoys the notion that this is a painting based on slightly different rules.
We stuffed squash blossoms all summer long.
The series above is available as notecards here. I like to have notecard sets sitting on my writing desk, so I also designed a case that holds three sets of cards. I wanted more of a drawer feeling than the usual magnetic box. After quite a search, I decided on a manufacturer in Lahore, Pakistan. They took weeks to arrive, and I had actually given up on them and figured it had been a scam. But then, the DHL truck pulled up, and all is forgotten as I just love them.
What shall I paint next?