Botanical Illustration - Blog Posts

This is COOOL!!!!!

Man I should really get to painting the plants I researched on

Can never get enough of people just casualy exusting in nature

Finally finished 😭 Timelapse at the bottom! I had an idea for my Wings of Pages series, where instead of text, it's a book full of botanical illustrations. The majority of the time was spent on the individual flowers for each feather/page of the wings. I really love the look of old botanical books with the water color paintings and the scientific names written in cursive. So I spent way too many hours painting out 20 of these flower pages, and even then, it wasn't enough for the wings so I did have to duplicate some.

Here are the 20 flowers! The HD image of Atlas Botanicus, and all 20 HD flower studies without watermark will be DMed on Patreon.com/Yuumei on May 5th, along with the hours long video recording of how I painted everything.

For September’s plant - the beginning of spring where I am - I chose the primrose. The common name originates from the latin - prima rosa, or first rose. It’s one of the early bloomers that usher in the spring. It’s also one of the favoured plants of the fair folk

now for todays jacket spotlight - the cicada design!

im personally SO happy with how the dogwood sleeves turned out - theyre one of my favorite embroidered designs out of the whole collection.

only one more design left to reveal!! get all the info about preorders here!

‘Flowering Trees of the Orient’ (1921).

Garden catalogue from A. E Wohlert, the Garden Nurseries.

 U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library.

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Hey! If you are an artist say HI in the comments. I will check out your page for sure! Let us engage more and know each other. That'll be fun!❤

I don't know why I was not able to post on tumblr lately...whenever i clicked the 'post button' it showed some error ! But now here it is!😀❤

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this one’s from France as well, my watercolour study of a beautiful nerium oleander got interrupted by a refreshing summer rain

Passiflora caerulea watercolour illustration  This beautiful blue passionflower plant grew right in front of our tent in France - what a good time that was! 

icelandic flora. 

Tea for one 🫖 🌹

Pisum sativum- Garden Pea

Peas please ✨

Pea prints for your spring vibes

Hello friends, how have you been?

I hope your weather is lovely wherever you are and you're taking care of yourselves :)

I am currently staring longingly out the window for Canada Post to deliver the Nasturtium Notebook. They keep moving the delivery to the next day like oops we gotcha so I go ahaha you pulled a sneaky on me :,)

Until then, enjoy these mock-ups !

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Hello friends 🌱 I have decided to start offering commissions :) please swipe through for some examples and important info✨ at the moment I'm focusing on traditional pieces (graphite and watercolor options) 🎨

Please dm me here or on instagram (luna__778) (the best/ quickest way to contact me) or email me if you are interested or have questions ☺️ Id love to create some lovely botanical art for you! 🌱✨

Hello hello! Yesterday I finished my last Mushroom for may 🍄✨ (I know there are 31 days but you'll see in a bit why I went with 30)

🍄 cremini mushrooms are probably the thing I eat most. Actually I think I eat them every day with dinner and they're soo versatile. I watched a YouTube video last night about a guy who photographs fungi and apparently in other parts of the world there's HUNDREDS of different mushrooms that people can just buy and eat??? Idk man I have like... 5 options depending on the store I go to. We need more mushrooms here 😅

Day 29! Column stinkhorn 😮🍄 heck these things get crazy. Have you seen a timelapse of them grow? Beautiful yet terrifying

Howdy goblin and fairy friends 🍄✨ it's mayshroom #28: common puffball!

ALSO since we are coming near the end of the month, I am in the process of selecting which Mayshrooms will be made into prints!

🍄 I'm going to rework the boarder + remove the month and date but I will sign and number the print on the back (for example if you wanted todays mayshroom I'd sign the back and write "05/28")

🍄 I will be keeping the names of the Mayshrooms under the painting :)

🍄 The size will be 5"x7"

I will post an example tomorrow and id love to hear from you about what Mayshrooms you'd like to see as prints ❤️🍄✨

I'm so happy you are enjoying the Mayshrooms and I hope you enjoy the art to come ❤️😊

Mayshroom day 27 baybeeeeeee

Birds nest mushroom looks a lot like a bucket of beans...Or goblin stew. A very neat fungus indeed!

Mayshroom day 26! We are getting so close to the end of the month and the end of the Mayshrooms, but in the days to come there will be some exciting developments 👀 what are they planning...

Until then, enjoy today's friend! Sticking with the witchy theme from yesterday we have a witches cauldron! Very rare indeed 👀

Yesterday's lovely fungus ✨ witches butter / Golden jelly! How would like like to spread this on your morning toast?

Mayshroom 23!

Here's a fun and slightly creepy looking fungus; the Myrtle Orange ! This parasitic fungus is native to Australia (why are so many wild looking things from Australia??) It resembles grapes and it's reported to be pleasant-tasting with a jelly like consistency ✨

Mayshroom day 20!! I've seen some varieties of this where the inside and outside is all white or the outside is brown, but I only saw one where the inside was a dark greyish colour so I decided on that one :) say hello to the earth star fungus!

👑a royal shroom

Yesterday's mushroom for mayshroom

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I'm going to try and do a different mushroom each day, probably all in the same medium because at the end of May I want to put them all together on one page 😁 today's mayshroom is morchella ✨

✿Come get lost in the garden✿