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Plant Portraits
Plant Portraits, a Daily Painting Series
February 2025
Original gouache painting on archival watercolor paper.
6 x 6 inches with small white border.
This was part of the daily painting, Plant Portrait Series of February 2025.
Day 27, 2/27/25
Back story:
Definitely in the bucket of my favorite pieces of this series! I “LOVE” the minimalist aspect of it. The pieces of this Series that are on stark and starch white backgrounds really appeal to me. Bold like a sticker or a pop graphic, or a poppy tattoo. A little clip art feel to it, but the cool, artsy, modern kind.
Another one I will likely make a sticker and or a tattoo out of! Get on that waiting list!
Most like Prayer Plant Praying, but also like “spotted begonia (angel wings)” and Jade in February, this piece has a minimal feel in contrast to the Plant Portraits in this series that are bold and “heavy” with color.
Painted from real life but meant to be referential, not actual, again.
Another reason I especially like this piece is due to the triangle plant’s special place in my heart for being triangle. (Like “being square”, but not.)
Like I have colors and themes and seasons of life in other ways, apparently sometimes it’s a shape. The shape has been triangle for awhile now, so "naturally" a triangle plant would be in my favor at this season of life.
Check out Plant Portrait Series of February 2025 if you want more story on this piece. If there is more, it will be in that Write.
On display at Lucketts Store
Important note:
THIS PIECE DOES NOT COME FRAMED.
These pieces are SHOWN placed in a Basic Box Wood Frame which I love the aesthetic of for the simplicity and minimalist aesthetic. It COULD be a good choice for your frame and you will have the option to add it at checkout. But please note the piece DOES NOT COME FRAMED or in this frame. The picture is so you can see it in a setting but you will get to PYO frame for it! You can ADD THIS frame as an add on during check out.
This Series was painted during the Winter of 2025.
I think focusing on plants, was a semi unconscious way of directing my mind to growth and life, during that time of year when we all feel things are a little dreary and dead. I notice this year that I am no longer a person who dislikes Winter, and that was INTERESTING, but by February, I was still very much over it and ready for Spring!
I think I was also drawn to paint plants because I was preparing for the upcoming next focus in my life which was to be: Things and Stuff: Spring Series: PLANTS! What else do you do in Spring when you’re a HAWKER and HOCKER of Things & Stuff?!
Doing PAINTINGS OF PLANTS occurred to me as another THING I could offer as a physical item in my collection. It also came from a clever idea based on my previous experience of doing plants in Pop up Shops in the Fall of last year.
I noticed that people who didn’t buy anything, often said one of these 2 things when they came to my booth:
These are very cool / I love plants BUT:
I already have too many plants, and I can’t bring any more home
ORI kill everything, I can’t do plants!, my thumb is BLACK.
And I thought: if you don’t want a real plant, here have a fake plant!
Perhaps Plant ART can bring something LIKE the energy a real plant brings. While it can’t filter your air and provide oxygen, maybe it can inspire the little joy that plants really do bring, and it doesn’t require a finicky light sitch and for you to figure out a watering schedule that works, or if it’s going to kill your cat or your dog or your kid if they won’t stop gnawing on your potted friends! Oh and plastic pants make my skin crawl, so this was an alternative to that obvious alternative!
Thus, Plant Portraits became a Thing.
“If you kill plants, if you have so many plants you’re trying not to bring home ANY MORE plants, or if you just love art and plant art in particular, this series is for you!”
every one wants a plant that won't die •
every one wants a plant that won't die •
Little Gouache Paintings
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These pieces are gouache on archival watercolor paper.
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Plant Portraits is a series done in Winter 2025, when the indoor plants were making a jungle in my home, and they seemed the “obvious” thing to look at, study, explore, focus on.
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