Cozy little studio corner 🩵

Spent the morning wandering around in a light rain, photographing the Tucson desert

Sonoran Stillness, 2'x3' oil on canvas #BlueskyArtShow #sky #traditionalart #landscape

The Pueblos Mágicos certainly live up to their name. Photos from San Miguel de Allende.

The yuccas at White Sands are so striking 🌵 #BlueskyArtShow #Bright #BotanicalArt #OilOnCanvas

#mountainmonday #landscape #oiloncanvas

Still new enough to framing that it has a bit of rustic flair to it, but this is one of the first times I've put frames on my work and I'm so so pleased with how it elevates the pieces.

Companion piece to yesterday's post, inviting you to look a little closer at the way the dappled light plays across the plants and water. Oil on canvas, 16"x12" #traditionalart #botanicalart #nature

Take a minute to sit and trail your fingers through the cool water. Oil on canvas, 16"x12" #BlueskyArtShow #Relax #Art #OilOnCanvas

I love where I live, the desert Southwest and its plants are so special. Agaves Study Oil on canvas, 24"x12" #BlueskyArtShow #Home #BotanicalArt #TraditionalArt #Tucson

My partner gave me their old DSLR recently and I'm SO stoked to start experimenting with it. Sometime down the road you might see one of two of these in painting form...

Really bit a lot off with this one, now let's see if I can chew it. #wip #traditionalart

Old buildings become new habitats, mother nature retaking what is hers. You wouldn't believe how much fun I had putting in those little blocks on the silos. Reclamation Oil on canvas, 24"x36" #BlueSkyArtShow #Pieces #SensoryArt #CopyPaste

Playing around with a more stylized approach... Won't be my go-to, but I definitely learned a lot! Eclipsed Expectations Oil on canvas, 18"x24x"

My enduring love of green continues. GREEN Oil on canvas, 18"x24" #BotanicalArt #BlueskyArtShow #Jagged

Officially calling it on my (mostly) berries series! It's been so fun to explore the vastly different ways that similar structures express themselves 🫐 Morphology Watercolor and pyrography pen on panels 5.5"x5.5" each #art #botanicalart #traditionalart

Halfway through monsoon season and it's only really rained where I am once. Fed up with this nonsense, take me back to the PNW.

This is the longest of long shots, but does anybody have an ID for the vines covering the silos at Phinizy Swamp Nature Park outside of Augusta, GA? #botany #Georgia #nature

Another Tucson berry! The wolfberry plant has such different morphology from the others in this series- it was a real treat to do something a little different. #art #woodburning #watercolor #botanical

This is one of those rare times when I have both the time and the energy to paint a bunch and it's so nice 😭 I'll be starting a new job soon and I'm trying to cram as much as I can in

This agave series from a couple years ago was such a fun way to explore different painting styles. Their arrangement is meant to mimic the way agave pups sprout up around the mother plant 🌱 #art #oilpainting #botanical #traditionalart

Hey I love progress pictures so much. Half of my painting process is stitching them together and staring at it. #art #oilpainting #landscape

Forbidden snack if I ever saw one. #art #traditionalart #botanical #watercolor

Google photos axed the tool I use to crop my art photos and I'm seething. #art #watercolor #woodburning #botanical

Just past the halfway point on the berries series! I've got total of 12 in progress/finished panels. #art #traditionalart #watercolor #woodburning

Hi #PortfolioDay 🌿 I'm Reed, an artist from Tucson who (primarily) works in oil paint. I focus on botanical art and landscapes to try and capture the wonder of finding the hidden little secrets of the world. #art #oilpainting #traditionalart

Gearing up to make a second batch of these guys. I'm about to have an ungodly number of coasters.

This one's my favorite panel yet! The first plant in the series native to the Tucson area. Manzanita fruits are botanically drupes, not berries, but I'm counting it anyways. #art #traditionalart #sciart #watercolor

When it rains, it pours, and I've had such a flood of energy to make art 🌱 This one's a redo of one of my oil paintings. #art #traditionalart #woodburning #watercolor

Making these is such a nice little treat while I'm waiting on layers of oil paint to dry 🫐 #art #traditionalart #woodburning #watercolor

A scene from a drizzly day's hike just outside of Moab. Petrichor Oil on canvas, 24"x26" #BlueSkyArtShow #GetOutside #Art

Maybe my next project is building a giant flower to replace my bed with. It just looks so cozy. Oil on canvas, 5" diameter

Am I going to cover every spare wall in this house with plants? You bet I am.

I love painting at all sorts of different scales! The mountains around Tucson light up every evening and I can't get enough of it- now I get to see them glow all day.

One berry, two berry, red berry, blue berry. #art #traditonalart #woodburning #watercolor

Pretty sure I've got the best studio assistant.

Still figuring out how I want to treat the leaves through this series. On to the next! #art #traditionalart #woodburning #watercolor

A little art, as a treat. #art #traditionalart #woodburning #watercolor

Hi! I'm Reed, and I'm a Tucson artist who works mostly in traditional mediums. Most of my art is oil on canvas, but sometimes I work with watercolor, pyrography pens, and resin. I really like plants- 90% of what you'll find here is botanical or landscape focused 🌿

One from the vault, referenced from a Burn Area Emergency Response hitch from my trail crew days. Something about the old system wasn't healthy- this fire shouldn't have spread the way that it did. But plant seeds in the right places, and something beautiful can grow. BAER Oil on canvas, 20"x30"

I'm a sucker for really old trees. They look like they have secrets.

I dunno, probably don't eat any of these. There's only one of them that I'm 100% sure isn't toxic, and it's not a good snacking berry.

I've been having an unreasonable amount of fun with this wood burning tool. Makes me smell like campfire 🔥

This was the second dryest winter on record in Tucson and I've been missing the wildflowers. Hoping that the recent rain will wake the desert up! Watercolor and pyrography pen on wood panel, 7"x7"

Bristlecone pines can live over 5,000 years- this one's survived through the rise and fall of countless civilizations. Those of you who live in the US, please make your voice heard in support of protecting our public lands and the treasures they hold. The Ancient Oil on canvas, 24"x36"

It's been nice to make some art that reads more like an item than an image. Pyrography pen for bold lines and texture, watercolor to bring it to life.

Take some time to embody a little creature, snuffling around to find the tiny treasures of the world. It's good for you, I promise. I've been waiting for a good time to share my #berry painting, and #mARTch25 had the perfect prompt! Symphoricarpos Oil on canvas, 24"x36"

A Blue Glow for Bluesky, from the agave series I painted a while back. Forever obsessed with these guys, they're one of my favorite desert plants. Blue Glow Oil on canvas, 16"x20"

Anyone else super affected by inertia in their artistic practice? I abandoned this canvas four years ago but got jazzed enough about finishing a painting that I picked this one back up.

Fresh off the easel, this is one of my first animal paintings. I'm trying to find a beefy clock motor so the jellies can bumble and twirl on the wall, just as I bumble into a new decade. The Last Painting of my Twenties Oil on canvas, 12" diameter #oilpainting #jellyfish #traditionalmedia