Downpour (Prairie State Park), Watercolor

Continuity, Acrylic on Canvas

Milkweed with Aphids, Watercolor

Wide Open (Prairie State Park), Watercolor

A few different iterations of the prairie. I've been forced into looser painting by both the demands of my body and the demands of my psyche.

Cyanotypes on fabric.

Quartz crystals and string.

White Vervain, Honeysuckle, and Gayfeather

Honeysuckle

Sawtooth Sunflower and Goldenrod

Goldenrod

Black-eyed Susans

Winged Sumac

Beaked Panicum

Foxtails

Foxtails, Daisy Fleabane, Goldenrods

Woolly Croton and Goldenrods

Sericea (invasive in Missouri)

An underexposed test strip made in indirect sunlight. I love how ghostly it turned out.

I also used the same transparencies to make wet cyanotypes, embellished with gold ink.

Prairie State Park

 

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

The Ship

Longnecks

Dissipate

Visitors

 Collages. Watercolor, cyanotype, embroidery, and vellum.

The prairie really feels like the ocean sometimes in all its expansiveness. As above, so below.

No ticks! How do I do it? Honestly, I have no idea. I saturate myself with bug spray, of course, but just a couple of weeks ago I was hiking with my husband and he got several dozen while I got zero. I like to joke that the prairie protects me.

Goat's Rue

Other bits of May