Blue Chanterelle Mushroom
I started a new watercolor series a few months ago, I called it "Edible Botanicals". So far, I have about two completed art pieces in this series. Ideally though, I'd love to do a deep dive and paint 10-12 more artwork in that collection at some point in the distant future.
Since I'm interested in foraging, permaculture and ecological gardening, I'm investigating unusual edible, wild plants and creating new paintings, illustrations, patterns or designs wit them.
I imagine that with a few tweaks here and here, they could would work for home decor, textiles or surface design.
Blue Chanterelle Mushroom is the first in this collection:
Surface Design mushroom art inspired from Japanese wabi sabi philosophy
Way back when I was learning about all this going-back-to-the-land stuff, I found it really hard to match my aesthetics with my new philosophies on life, slow travel and the design frameworks I wanted to utilize to create art.
For years, I couldn't really figure out how to solve that problem - until recently, that is, when I suddenly realized that with my newly minted illustration skills, I could actually create imagery and product design that was meaningful to me, and perhaps to other people in the tribe.
This definitely opens up new avenues of creative investigation that promises hours of delight. Only time will tell.
The final painting itself was created on 300lb Fabriano paper. I used a mixed-media approach to paint the final art.
The next piece in the collection is "Blue Cactus." I'll be posting that next.
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Public Announcement: This blog post is part of a collection of 354+ posts from my original Wordpress blog "Dreaming Into Being" library. I've now retired and migrated it to “Wander & Paint,” my new blog posts at the United Wanderlust art shop. As time allows, I will be reviewing, editing, condensing, updating and releasing a number of these blog posts but not all of them.
Some posts require more precision surgery than others. I'll also probably be publishing new posts as the muse wills it and father time allows. This whole process may take a while but I think these blog post serve as great documentation of my process and reminds me of certain milestones. So, most of them will be made available again- at some point.
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