Artiste Botanique
Hello everyone, I hope you are all keeping well... This is a post about 2 projects coming together... For a while I have been thinking about releasing tutorials as downloadable PDFs, which I started with a couple I sell in my Etsy shop, the Holly and the sunflower. The idea is that I release one… Continue reading Patreon official launch
Here is the first video in my 2020 tulip phase. I go through one of these every year. Unfortunately this year my tulip craving will be hard to feed. The much anticipated crops of 'Black Parrot', 'Burgundy' and 'Apricot Beauty' I planted in my garden were all eaten by something unknown and mysterious, while West… Continue reading Anatomy of a tulip – Video
In unexpected and distressing situations like the one hitting our world right now, the best and the worst in people rise to the surface. All day long we hear stories of the man who stole the last bag of pasta from an old lady's trolley while musicians play in the streets for lonely people who… Continue reading True colours – The side effects of the virus
Order: Dipsacales Family: Caprifoliaceae Genus: Lonicera Species: L. fragrantissima Type: Deciduous shrub Propagation: Seed, greenwood cuttings in summer or hardwood cuttings in autumn Native to: China This plant of the month is not particularly spectacular, nor is it colourful or unusual. But as I lay convalescing from surgery on my feet (both at the same time, that's pretty… Continue reading Plant of the month: Winter Honeysuckle – February 2020
Hello and happy, creative 2020! There are some new things in my Etsy shop: a series of A5 notebooks with blank pages, recycled paper and card cover, and some of my paintings on the covers. They contain 76 pages and the spines are square so they stack well and sit easily on shelves or in… Continue reading New in my Etsy shop: notebooks/sketchbooks/journals
Sandrine Maugy 