Desarmillaria Tabescens/Ringless Honey Mushrooms. Watercolor and Ink on Arches paper

I made a few little mushroom paintings on panels that will be for sale at Pittsburg Artwalk this Saturday, along with prints and some other originals. These are all based on mushrooms found while hiking.

Prairie State Park

 

A few cyanotypes from last summer and some recent September mushrooms.

I observed this mushroom daily for about a week (until we couldn't put off mowing the lawn any longer, haha). It was so interesting to see it transform through growth and decay.

Holy Water. Watercolor, Gouache, and Iridescent medium on Arches paper. 2025.

Silent Night. Watercolor and gouache on Arches paper.

Life Finds a Way. Watercolor and Ink.

Shadow Work. Watercolor and Acrylic on Arches Paper. 2024.

Glow-In-The-Dark details

Detail

Entangled. Watercolor and Arches paper. 12" x 12".

I really enjoyed indulging the details with this one.

Mushrooms portrayed here are (from top and clockwise): shaggy ink cap/coprinus comatus), stinkhorn/phallus indusiatus, fly agaric/amanita muscaria, entoloma papillatum, blue oyster/pleurotus ostreatus var. columbinus, morel/morchella esculenta, black trumpet/craterellus cornucopioides, and yellow fly agaric/Amanita muscaria var. guessowii.

Iceberg. Digital drawing.

“The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require your participation in order to exist. I've looked into marginal areas of human experience - historical and otherwise - with a rational mind, and what I've found is that doorways into the miraculous are far fewer than the publicists of the New Age would have us believe. On the other hand, they are not as rare as the proponents of radical reductionism and materialism would have us believe. There are doorways out of the mundane.”

Terence McKenna

 Worm Moon. I popped this baby into a frame yesterday. I think I'm officially ready for my show at Urban Art Gallery in August.

An old watercolor that I was able to polish digitally.

 I bought an Ipad Pro and I love it so far.

Shed. Watercolor, India Ink, Gold Leaf, and Gouache. 14” x 21”. 2022.

Also, here's a little rainbow layer study, one of the "dark rainbows" that isn't so dark.

Elation. Watercolor and Gold Leaf. 10” x 13”. 2022.

Rot. Watercolor, India Ink, and Embroidery. 14" x 21". 2021

Worm Moon. Watercolor, India Ink, and Gouache. 29" x 21". 2021.

Worm moon - work in progress.

 Adventures in primitive printmaking