Those feathers are coming together! #finchfledglings 🪺

There is such an interesting, pink/purple hue to the sky tonight right now. Wildfire smoke, sunset, and some rain starting. #sky

Very excited to have my Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) illustration accepted into the GNSI 2026 Annual Juried Members Exhibit! First time I have made it in. 🎨🐡 See all of the amazing artwork here (and soon to be posted on the GNSI page): www.artworkarchive.com/profile/guil...

It seems I interrupted dinner! Since this nest is right outside of our front door, each time I open it, the mama bird flys off. This is the first time I saw the fledglings reaching up! 🪺 #housefinchnest

An intuitive doodle for July. I liked the rich, warm colors of the background on this one and added the linework, as usual, randomly. I rotated it a few times and decided on this view. #intuitivedoodle #ink #watercolor

We had a beautiful, low/hanging rainbow in our backyard just after a cloudburst this afternoon! So pretty! #rainbow 🌈

I took some cut/folded paper on our travels this past weekend and ended up with a fun multi-view doodle! I connected most of the designs between panels when folded, so that was neat. I like how it looks when standing in various 3-D poses. #intuituvedoodle #penandink 🎨

Strawberry Moon! 🌕

This latest experiment warranted a short video because it moves! This is a continuously convoluting carousel book structure (invented by Graham Patten.) Kinda tricky, even with the tutorial, so I was excited to get this far. Check it out! #bookbinding

More cyanotypes! I had fun in the sun yesterday, for sure. I did a few prints without plexi, so there is some beautiful tonal variation and depth. Pretty neat! 🎨🌱 #cyanotype #botanicalprints

Learning process! I did four cyanotype prints yesterday afternoon, but did not rinse and drain as thoroughly. All have some staining. So now I know! Still, I really like how these are turning out. Such a fun way to capture forms quickly. #cyanotype 🌱🎨

A pretty kitchen herb print. This is a cyanotype of basil, thyme and parsley from my garden. It is on Bristol Smooth paper, 100lb. 🌱 🎨 #cyanotype #herbs

I was a tad impatient and did two smaller pieces next to each other, hence the overlap on the left. But I love the detailed veins that appeared on the bloodroot (left.) The right are three leaves from a lupine plant. 🎨 #cyanotype

Cyanotype! I have always wanted to try this. I coated paper last night with the iron salt solution and grabbed a fern leaf from the yard. It gradually turns bronze in the sun. Then you rinse! A splash of dilute peroxide solution brings the deep blue faster. I can’t wait to do more! 🎨 #cyanotype

Happy Solstice! ☀️

I have this invasive musk thistle that I discovered in our brush pile a few weeks ago. I saw some color on one blossom and wanted to wait for full bloom. Thought I saw that earlier this week. Nope! This gorgeous thing filled out this morning! So beautiful! Will dig it up before it seeds… 🌱 #thistle

All of this rainy, cool weather has some fungi sprouting up all over the wood pile! 🍄 #fungi #mushrooms

This is an addition to a collection of bookbinding technique models that I started a while back to have as references, and for practice! A piano hinge binding uses sticks to connect the signatures. Some twining at the top and bottom with waxed linen thread keeps it all in place. #bookbinding

The intuitive doodles continue! The Blue Moon at the end of May inspired the blue (and I did the line drawing to add to my full moon drawings for this year.) The yellow hexagon was inspired by those intricate peony stamen! 🎨 #intuitivedoodle #bluemoon #peony

Peak peonies! @matthaeinichols Peony Garden is speak bloom. My oldest and I took a quick trip over to see these beauties while we have this gorgeous, sunny, 70s weather. So many shapes and colors! If you are local and have the chance, now is the time. 🌱 #peonies

Spent a gorgeous, sunny morning @marillafieldandflora in Dexter taking a botanical painting workshop by botanical artist Cara Cummings. What a beautiful setting! I have much practice to do with watercolor, and hope to finish my orange poppy sometime soon! 🌱🐡 #botanicalpainting

Husband found the start of a wasp nest in his Big Green Egg so, naturally, he called me over because I love stuff like this. The structure is so beautiful, and I have not seen one just at the start. #waspnest #hexagonalcells

The Peony Garden is starting to open up! Lots of people out today. The azaleas are putting on a great show, too. 🌱 #peonies

Setting up a new shop! I decided to try Big Cartel as an Etsy alternative. I am really liking it so far! Let me know what you think. I am continuing to add more each day and will eventually connect this to my main website. ccreechstudio.bigcartel.com

Light purple/white are up! Maroon and yellow are still going strong and dark purple (look at that bud—nearly black!) are keeping up. 🌱#springiris

And the purples are up! Love these in the sunlight. 🌱#purpleiris

The iris are up! Love when these start blooming. #springiris

Back to doodling! Can you tell I bought some more gel pens? 😁 I chose the sunny orange/yellow watercolor background that I painted months ago. I then just started adding line work to the shapes. I really like the blue metallic ink on the orange (go complementary colors!) 🎨 #intuitivedoodle

More sights from @matthaeinichols today including, forest phlox, twinleaf, wild geranium, lakeside daisy, dwarf lake iris, shooting star, and some turkey tail fungus. 🌱 #wildflowers #springephemerals

Ferns! I dug up one of our emerging ferns to study the leaves more closely. And then @matthaeinichols today, there was a beautiful bonsai fern inside and the beginnings of a maidenhair fern (red) in the wildflower garden. 🌱 #ferns #springunfurling

A belated Earth Day weaving - a shallow tray representing a cross-section of the planet from core to surface. #earthday2026 #coilbasket 🌎

I had a great time last night learning about paper engineering from @matthewshlian.bsky.social @clusterspace.bsky.social We started with some basics and ended with learning about pleating and curved folds. So much fun, and I can’t wait to play around with these techniques! #paperengineering

More spring ephemerals are popping up! Jack-in-the-pulpit, cut-leaves toothwort, trillium, and rue anemone. 🌱#springwildflowers

Happy Earth Day! 🌎 A throw-back to the wire-bound, hexagonal bee book from a couple of years ago and a new, round-ish journal I just completed! The Coptic binding allows it to open fully and the shape permits full-access to any round designs. And the paper is just gorgeous 🌎 😊 #bookbinding #earthday

Spring is finally kicking in @matthaeinichols - dwarf lake Iris, prairie smoke, Virginia bluebell, mayapple, and crabapple. The killdeer is also still on her nest! 🌱 #springflowers #greatlakes #wildflowers

Another magnolia bud on the same tree had opened up more fully. These definitely beg to be done in color! But I love the shapes and shading in graphite. 🌱🎨🐡 #magnoliablossom #botanicalillustration #botanicalart #graphite

We passed one of my favorite magnolia trees on our walk and the blossoms are just opening up. This one looked like it was wearing a hat. 😂 🌱🎨🐡#magnoliablossom #botanicalart #botanicalillustration #graphite

The first trout lily has bloomed in the backyard! I love spring ephemerals. 🌱#springephemerals #troutlily #wildflowers

A beautiful day for a visit to @matthaeinichols We saw some of my favorite wildflowers, got to view the lightening scar on the giant burr oak tree, and even spied a killdeer nest right off of the pathway! The tree should survive and the bird’s mate was nearby patrolling, so all should be well. 🌱

Planet pendants are back! This past week’s excitement over the Artemis II mission brought to mind this design from a few years ago, and I am making more! Ocean jasper really lends to a planetary feel. The purple is dogtooth amethyst. Nice connection between Earth and space during Earth month. 🐡🎨🌎

Welcome home Integrity! What a beautiful week with you. 🌖🌎

Some pencil studies of the moon and earth from Artemis II mission photos. 🌕🎨🌎🐡 #moondrawings #artemisii

It was too cloudy to see the April “pink moon”, but I am having a great time following the Artemis II mission! 🌖 I added another drawing - this one is from the live NASA feed showing the view of the Orion craft as it goes behind the moon with a crescent Earth in the distance. 🎨🐡 #artemisii

Happy Moonday! Looking forward to following along with the Artemis II fly by around the moon today! 🌖 www.nasa.gov/live/

Pysanky are finished! I made most of these, but several by the kids. I did an attempt (in front) of that great photo of Earth by Artemis II. My blue didn’t take as well, but it was fun to commemorate! Happy Easter/Spring! 🎨 #pysanky #ukrainianpysanky #easter2026 #spring2026

It was a morning of moss, mushrooms, some early spring ephemerals, evidence of beavers, and one egret! @matthaeinichols and Mary Beth Doyle Park. 🌱 #earlyspringflowers #naturewalk

More of a tiny tray than a basket, this one was inspired by the April full moon, also known as the “pink moon.” It was too cloudy to see it here, so I am glad I made my own! 🎨 🌕 #pinkmoon #aprilfullmoon2026 #intuitivebasketry #coiledbasket

I was just out yesterday to look for early spring ephemerals and nothing. Today, my bloodroot is popping up and starting to bloom! I love how the leaves hug the blossom. 🌱 #bloodroot #springephemerals #daffodils

Sculptural coil basketry experiments continue! I was going for a wavy/Great Lakes color and shape here, but that didn’t lend itself to a very sturdy structure. However, putting one of my many lake rocks into it shows off its stretchy waves! 🎨 #coilbasketry #sculpturalbasketry #greatlakes

On a roll this year with pysanky! I have not yet taken off the wax, but have a nice bunch so far. 🎨 #ukrainianeggs #pysanky #waxresist