Join Together, PDX!

My piece for the upcoming Join Together show in Portland curated by Meg Hunt!

I'm really honored to have been asked to do a piece for Join Together, a really cute art show in Portland. My good friend Meg Hunt is getting married to her long-time love, Mike, and in celebration of their union, She's curated Join Together to be about love, partnership and just ... joining together!
My little piece is a combo of the natural subjects I love. I was thinking about it as I was making it --- that it's really fun to see how many types of foliage can co-exist together in one little space. A little gathering of all types of greenery.

If you're in Portland, try to make it out to the reception on the 9th! (Just a couple days away!)
Congratulations, Meg! I wish you the best!

Daily Pattern: To Be A Witch

Topic: Halloween

There you have it. Some things you need to be a standard witch for a day.

Daily Pattern: Marigolds

The last floral pattern was so much fun that I was glad to have another opportunity. The bike ride to work is through some really lovely residential gardens. This week I noticed some people have their boulevards lined with marigolds–really pretty (kind of smelly) flowers. The coolest thing about marigolds, though, is when they dry up and you can harvest their seeds from the little pocket beneath the blossom.

Daily Pattern: Autumn Leaves

I had some email trouble, so the lateness for this pattern is completely my fault. Ira had created her botanical, fall-inspired pattern right on time.

“Today in Odessa was the first autumn rain. That means that summer is over, and I'm a little sad. But I decided to draw something that I like about autumn -- the colorful leaves are like a carpet lay on the ground.”

-Ira