For #day12 of #artadventcalendar I'm closing the loop on the Crabapple carbon dust piece I have shared a few process images of. Here it is in its gorgeous cherry frame. It's luminous because it is on translucent film. Last picture shows the film rolled to see the colored pencil on the back.

#day11 of #artadventcalendar is this second teeny painting, this time of a peony blossom, again on a 4 inch wood panel. This one got snapped up at a market this summer! It looked good on my mantel with gnome, birds, sunflower friends before it went to its new home tho 💖 Gouache and colored pencil.

I'll be there this Sunday! Denver sketch people, feel free to join us to draw at Denver Botanic Gardens ☺️ #denver #pleinair

#day10 of #artadventcalendar: my painting for an artist Telephone Game. Each artist received only another artist's submission as a prompt, with no context. The one I got was a video of squashing avocados. Thru the botanical artist filter— Voila! telephonegame.art/artists/brittany-hass

For #artadventcalendar #day9 , a cactus trio I painted in a class thru Denver Botanic Gardens' School of Botanical Art and Illustration. This was in colored pencil, watercolor, and gouache. I think I spent more time on the silly little rocks than the plants... Whose idea was this composition?!

For #day8 of #artadventcalendar ... A pothos and piano painting I sat on for YEARS and then finally finished recently. I really love it so I'm glad it hasn't sold. It's gouache and I underpainted with metallic gold, so a lot of that shows thru 💖 Who else grew up with Schirmer editions like this?

For #day7 of #artadventcalendar my pile of interesting, to-be-drawn bits of wood! Any botanical illustrator has a stash like this. 🤪 I'll draw them eventually!!!

#artadventcalendar #day5 is a look at my workshop print for today. I've already had several excited art makers come thru and make custom prints with this set! There are 5 modular vertical strips to this one. I have several other pieces that can rotate in 🤩

#artadventcalendar #day5 is more progress on my big old crabapple tree in carbon dust. You can really see some of the colored pencil color popping from the reverse side of the film here! #carbondust #botanicalillustration

While Mike Johnson is running around trying to act like he’s not the most incompetent Speaker in US history, we’re pushing hard to extend the ACA tax credits for millions of Americans. We’re almost there, and you can help!

For #artadventcalendar #day4 ... A little unfurling monstera leaf in colored pencil on a tiny cradled wood panel. These little guys are especially nice to walk past on the wall as the drawing interacts with the edges of the panel, changing the composition at different angles. #botanicalillustration

#artadventcalendar #day3 is a throwback to the inaugural Sunday Sketching outing I helped coordinate as part of the board of @rmsbartists.bsky.social . We met to draw in the Boettcher Conservatory at Denver Botanic Gardens. We've kept it up all year! LMK if you are local and would like to join us.

For #artadventcalendar #day2 I am sharing an in progress image of the carbon dust tree illustration I made early in 2025. The original is now touring with @rmsbartists.bsky.social Trees juried show in Colorado and Wyoming. I'll share some more updates on this later in the month! #carbondust #art

For #artadventcalendar #day1 (reposting cuz forgot alt)... A linoleum printed notebook cover I made last January for my design clients and connections. It shows the mnemonic of using your knuckles to remember the lengths of the months, which I use all the time! #linoleumprint

Not bad for my first ever blueberry pie!! Excited to dig in after dinner. #blueberrypie #thanksgiving #pie #humbleamericandessert

#blueskyartshow #small Microworld I found hiking in Waterton this summer 😍

Muahahaha my plan is coming together! Modular linoleum print series 😍 couple more kinks to still work out but it's pretty much ready for the workshop I have coming up at a local gallery. #linoleumprinting #linoleum #linoprint #modularprint

My brief thoughts on "Death by Lightning" -- the new Netflix series about the assassination of James Garfield, based on the book "Destiny of the Republic" by Candice Millard, one of the most entertaining historical novelists of our era. Top of my mind: superb casting. (thread)

Is it just me or is the latest release of InDesign like ....nonfunctional?? I can't get it open without dumping prefs and I also can't get a save dialog box to render. Which pretty much means I can't use it. Remote desktop guy has been trying to resolve for 30 mins now 🤦🏼 #designerproblems

These are .... the coolest. 🤯

Just dropped this and several other originals and prints off at Arvada Center for their Holiday Market. I can't wait to go back and see the show all set up, it was positively buzzing with artsy energy today in the main gallery! The show opens Thanksgiving weekend and runs thru Dec 14 😍

There will be another 60 vote Friday* on the garbage shutdown deal. If we can convince just one Senator from the 52 republicans and 8 Dems that voted yes to flip, we could still stop this. Please jump on the phone today, call them, and share this widely. *If all goes by the regular schedule

OPEN CALL FOR ART! "Full Spectrum" — A joyful celebration of colors. Submit botanical artworks accentuating a singular hue. Learn more and sign up at: asba-art.org/content.aspx... The call closes November 2, 2026, but you must claim your color spot soon! #callforart #juriedshow #botanicalart

I couldn't NOT buy the Jolene shirt. But I get it stuck in my head every time I look in the mirror 🤪 Good thing it's such a banger.

The economy for many Coloradans, like Northglenn resident Aubrey Hix, is tough these days. “My utilities have gone up, homeowners' insurance has gone up, auto insurance has gone up,” said Hix as she sat on her back deck with her dog Rooney. "It's all costing more. And this is just one more thing.”

Yes yes everything's falling apart but it's Friday and here's a bee! I love her. This is a small commission I'm in the middle of, in gouache and colored pencil on toned paper. 🤩 #art #wip #bee

Check out our Call for Art! Spots are still open to claim a color ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💜🩷

Love this story. And it's basically what my new pastor preached today 🤩 Longer tables, less fences.

Had a great, meditative morning sketching session at @denverbotanic.bsky.social this morning with other @rmsbartists.bsky.social members! I drew Lions paw, which I had not noticed before. Super cute bright orange floofballs. #pleinair #sketchbook #botanical #art

An elder millennial AND an artist?! The "really good box" pile is no joke.

Came back after dinner to try to block more shapes in. A bit more to go before I will refund. Haven't decided if I will add a background color or leave the underpainting, I kind of dig it... #botanicalart #gouache #paintsky

A bigger gouache on panel piece than I have done before! I enjoyed sketching in the garden under the squash trellis today 💚 #gouache #painting #gardenart #wip

Stuff to do statewide over Labor Day weekend

Finished printing this edition of 20 slugbugs full of sunflowers 😊 Meet "Helianthus annuus x Bug" , second in my silly little series. Cranfield safewash ink in 3 colors on translucent Thai paper. #linoprint #linocut #art #printmaking

After much finagling, finally close on this little print of sunflowers in a beetle 🚗🌻 in 3 layers of lino. NOT doing a reduction print presents its own set of challenges for sure 🤪 I'll have these for sale labor day weekend with any luck! #linoprint #printmaking #sunflower #summer #yellow

My son saved seeds from a farmers market gourd he bought two years ago to make a guitar out of. We now have oodles of gourd vine on an 8 ft hoop and quite a few gourds all over 😜 Aren't they awesome?! #gardensky #birdhousegourd

Only the person I had to explain "no, not like her" every time I introduced myself in high school 😵‍💫

Ha. I draw flowers because they're pretty and I think more people should look closer at them 🤷‍♀️

Might still tweak this but I'm pretty happy with it. I haven't done a lot of landscapes but they're really relaxing! May do more... #art #gouache #glacierpark #nps

Bumblebee fren 🥰🐝 #bumblebee #bloomscrolling #bloomscroll

Art experiment: gouache on panel prepared with watercolor ground. There will be details (mountains, etc) but I'm letting this first watery layer dry. So far, big fan! I love painting on wood because it gives so much depth and permanence to the piece.

It rained so much last night that we found this lost soul in the middle of the sidewalk this morning. I'm not sure I have ever seen such a big snail in Colorado! We rehomed him near some green stuff so he avoids getting crunched.

The starfish delusion: why care, not strategy, is the real driver of change Care is the ground all systems stand on: it is the refusal to be paralysed by the size of the problem, but to act in spite of it By Mike Chitty @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

For #blueskyartshow #smooth here is one of a zillion photos from Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. This is Upper Waterton Lake. The first 2 of our 3.5 days were driving rain and solid clouds. This was the start of it breaking up and we had a gorgeous sunny ending to the trip 🥰 #waterton

We saw a bear in Waterton! Never been so close to one and I've been in a lot of bear areas in Montana etc. Don't worry, we stayed in the car! Anybody able to say for sure if it is grizzly or not? We kind of think young grizz: not huge, but seemed to have the shoulder hump and tipped fur... #animalid

Noticing perfect floofy hydrangeas all around the neighborhood this week! Reminding me of drawing this one from my friend's yard last year 🥰 still have prints available! #art #sciart www.paperglee.com/prints/p/hos...

Courtesy of my 13yo: The new Pope has a degree in mathematics from Villanova university. The guy doesn't just understand sin, he understands cos. #dadjokes #joke

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Late to the #showmeyourknits #garterstitch party but I'm working on a really wild Weekender Sweater in rainbow yarn that features mostly garter. I was cautiously optimistic but am falling more and more in love with the color story!

Is it better to not run and not fall, or run and fall now and again? Cuz that seems to be the choice. Bloody knee again this morning 🫤 it's been a little over a year, so probably about due for one.