First attempt at harvesting my chaste tree These ripe berries have been dried for several days, cleaning the husks to prep for a tincture. They'll be stored in a sealed jar until I get around to buying alcohol for it.

As it wanes the beauty is magnified 📷🌱 …

This particular one caught me- then I realized it's because approximately 80% of my wardrobe I've sewn falls under these shades.. I live in these colors.

We also attempted growing Weld this year - this was the only one to sprout from the pack, finally doing well Next year will either harvest for yellow dye, or let it go to seed and try again for larger crop

Artist credit: Lily Seika Jones

Mt. Atago, Kyoto, Japan

Also from sometime last year, when I was going hard on cartoony water. Here's a little patch of anime-style ocean doing some un-ocean-like things. #Blender #Mograph #VFX #GeometryNodes #ProceduralArt

There were 3 trilobite species over a foot long... the largest found was 28 inches ..or does your brain wonder about peaceful normal things at night?

Another post for #SciArtSeptember day 29: Plate 96 from Kunstformen der Natur (1904) by Ernst Haeckel depicting a variety of marine annelid worm species. It is labeled Chaetopoda, an obsolete taxonomical term. A favorite, it looks even more striking in person. Coin for scale.

Saw this gorgeous Eastern Tiger Swallowtail #butterfly (had to look up what kind it was), next to a monarch on our chaste tree today

Forgot to post the picture of my second woad ball Tiny ball on top is from last month's harvest, now properly dried and shrunken - the large ball on bottom is new

Having another woad harvest today

A Gray Catbird, for aurorawest on tumblr! Thank you for the #Waymakers donation! For info, to donate + request a bird: act.theyoungcenter.org/a/birdsbeyon... All funds help unaccompanied immigrant children in the US via @theyoungcenter.bsky.social Ends Sept. 30 - one week left! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

Autumn Light A painting from 2023, I really liked trying to portray translucency here. I referenced a hare skull in front of a lamp, and extrapolated how the lighting would look with a full skeleton. A few signed prints available here: lostthicket.etsy.com/listing/1805... #oilpainting #sciart

My favourite part of Hidcote is an area full of a variety of flowers, shrubs and trees where you can immerse yourself in beauty. Two people amongst the foliage and flowers in September. #Cotswolds #FlowersonFriday #FloralFriday #Bloomscrolling #Scape #Landscape #Gardens #Photography

Feeling like a greek garden statue today

The ferns are putting on a show these days along many parts of the East Coast Trail. Near Bay Bulls, Newfoundland, Canada. #hiking #trail #backpacking

Unusual (cyclical) circadian rhythm: do you have one? My son seems to have inherited mine, but I never hear it discussed- are other people sharing this hell?? (We have 26-28 hour days instead of 24, couple hours later every night, repeat forever. Some weeks up during day, then nocturnal. Repeat.)

Meticulously placing each curve and bend, floating for hours through a forest of stems and petals to examine views known generally only to insects - getting fully lost in the process, days of peace and contemplation. Favorite way to cope, it really is about the process and not the product #art

A #Roman ribbed glass bowl, in a pale shade of bluey-green. It is in beautiful condition despite being about 2000 years old; this type of glass vessel was very popular in the early Imperial period. AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

Just a reminder that your art is especially important when there is chaos everywhere

Progress on the Hydrangea - looking deceptively more complete from this angle than it really is.

The Gaulstown Dolmen • Waterford This Neolithic portal tomb known as the Gaulstown Dolmen likely dates to around 3800–3400 BC. It is beautifully set in an atmospheric glade at the foot of a hill known as Cnoc na Cailligh (the Hill of the Witch). #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺

Progress peek at today's screen.. Can y'all tell which plant it is yet?

some days the persistent unshakable dread is stronger than others... when touching grass, art, and thc all fail to quiet the mind. Sigh.

"I still think of you on your birthday." #art #illustration

Couple-day break after the moss project hit a big snag in the bake process. Back at it now tho, working on something new #blender

24 hours of fine tuning later.. Getting ready to bake this into a PBR, just getting ALL the uv stuff procedurally handled first

Certainly not a dandelion anymore, got a lot done in 24 hours Geometry node #Blender procedural moss texture #b3d #environmentart #3dart #indiedev #gamedev #gameart #geonode

Stop me when it looks like moss Forever playing with geo nodes #blender #b3d #gameart #indiedev #gamedev #3dart

Starting on a procedural moss idea, but having a sudden urge to pause and make a field of dandelions...

Decidedly NOT working on plants today

Interesting...

Blooper reel of some of the weird but interesting things I accidentally did while trying to do something else entirely. Still working on it, still finding new ways to fail. #blender #geonodes #gameart

Apparently nectar isn't always sweet, flowers don't waste energy adding sugar until pollinators are nearby The actual intelligence and awareness of plants continues to fascinate

deep in the weeds making a geo node setup to replace (and randomize) the messy previously posted flower stalk final pile of spaghetti will probably double in size once it works and the flowers get added in. #b3d #blender #gameart

I can't seem to stop playing with Geometry Nodes in Blender... thought I'd be drawing and sculpting a lot more, but can't put the logic down. Im not right-brained, I failed all math classes, this is full of unnecessary struggle... but every project, without fail: Nodes

In your eyes, a forest fire #art

I've had the song "Goodbye" by Earshot stuck in my head forrrrr.. 6 days now? Great song, but ready for mental radio to hit shuffle please.

Made this little plant today in Blender It's loosely based on Stylidium debile

Shop's reopened! tealnewcombart.etsy.com

Still neck deep in putting this material together (ha..), but here's a little progress peek at something that finally resembles halfway decent water #blender #b3d #gameart

Woad update! My first time growing, harvesting, and making a ball for future dye/pigment purposes

My first tree complete, just in time to celebrate 1 month

Couple days spent creating the code to do it, but now I can just... draw a line... and it'll taper itself (with subtle random noise) and generate stems with leaves, all with correct textures and stuff. About to have an actual fun time drawing straight lines

Slower progress than hoped, but still progress.

Well, now that I have bark material and some leaves - time to buckle down and actually make a tree It's spruce bark, and fig leaves, and only my second attempt to sculpt anything - so trying not to get bogged down with realism and references. Stylized from the heart, just practice.

Made some procedural bark today #blender #b3d #gameart

I did it! Week #3 of learning Blender Managed to make a big field of procedurally random, animated clover

Quick progress peek #blender #b3d #environmentart #gameart #handpainted