botany

  • TSBA of NYBG

    Jeanne Reiner and I are so proud of our Group!  We started the TSBA of NYBG nearly two years ago and this week we installed our first member exhibition!   Details below   WALK WITH US TRI-STATE BOTANICAL ARTISTS OF NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN AUGUST 29, 2018 – OCTOBER 27, 2018 RECEPTION: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,

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  • So the excitement is building!  Tomorrow is the opening of the ASBA Botanical Art Exhibition at the Horticultural Society in New York.  Im thrilled to have had my  painting ” Crimson Collar”, an Oak Leaf Hydrangea in fall colors, selected along with 41 others from a field of 215 submissions from around the world. This

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  • Cala Lily

    Here’s the finished Cala Lily.  I’m not loving the negative space.  Thinking about peeling back the spathe and painting the amazing spadix or maybe some additional growth in atmospheric perspective.  Just looked this up in my trusty Glimn-Lacy “Botany Illustrated”.  This is actually not a Lily as the common name would suggest.  It is in the Arum

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  • Ambitious

    Starting my largest botanical to date.  Just could not resist these Oak Leaf Hydrangea.  The challenge is that the leaves are already changing and will be dust in a few days.  I have my drawing done to scale from the live specimen and my colors are matched but for the painting I will have to

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