Botany valentine. Another oldie.

If wisdom is what we need, HOW do we build it?? I recommend a simply micro-practice called "Pause & Get Curious" Before we react, we take a moment and choose our response. It's simple to understand, challenging to DO, and POWERFUL in growing our wisdom!

In winter we eat the carbs. #noodle #sourdough #bread #ravioli

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Have a larger story on this coming, but I’ve been embedded with this group, and this story from yesterday is part of what they’ve been doing in the city: religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...

We went to the nature and science museum today! 😁

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giving this beautiful essay a Christmas Eve boost

For #day23 of #artadventcalendar some stills from our install day at Denver International Airport! I'm directing traffic in the first picture 🤪 We hung 38 large reproductions of pieces by @rmsbartists.bsky.social early in December with this wonderful crew. #artinstallation #sciart #botanicalart

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A little succulent in watercolor and colored pencil for #day22 of #artadventcalendar 🤩 Love these guys, but I am not very good at keeping em alive... #botanicalart #sciart #coloredpencil

For #day20 (late) of #artadventcalendar, my install-day video of the @rmsbartists.bsky.social reproductions going up at the Denver airport! This video shows half of the pieces, on the right side of the Y-juncture upstairs in the A concourse mezzanine. Later I'll share the other half! #sciart

For #day19 of #artadventcalendar here is one of my Rainbow of Garden Favorites series. I drew this Dahlia with a dip pen on hot press water color paper, then did abstract watercolor on all sides and glued it all to a wood panel. I did a whole series of these to cover the rainbow for a show in 2024.

For #day18 of #artadventcalendar a look at a recently completed commission of a lemon. This is small to fit the budget but was so lovely to work on! I hadn't done much with toned paper and really enjoyed this one. #coloredpencil #tonedpaper #sciart #botanicalillustration

For #day17 or #artadventcalendar how about this mixed media radish! I made a batch of lino prints in blackish brown of just the dirt, then painted the red with gouache and added leaves in colored pencil! I made an edition of 12, which all have different colors and shapes ❤️🫜 #linoprint

For #day16 of #artadventcalendar I am sharing a carbon dust shadow composition! I want to do a series of these but ... haven't 🤪 #carbondust

For #day15 of #artadventcalendar I'll share the lil sketch I did at the botanic gardens w/ @rmsbartists.bsky.social yesterday! I posted up in front of the orchid wall and used a fine micron, a white caran d'ache luminance pencil, and a Derwent inktense for the background, all over gray Strathmore.

The rest of the story on the iris, for #day14 of #artadventcalendar ☺️ I used bright yellow and orange colored pencils to create the fuzzy bit before surrounding it with watercolor so it would resist and remain bright and defined. I love the way the dry brush technique highlights the sparkly petals.

For #day13 of #artadventcalendar, another process series for a large iris portrait from May. I sketched in the yard larger than life, then brought it in and transferred to a huge sheet of paper (hand for scale). I started in with gouache for the stem and watercolor for the translucent petals.

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

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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

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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