There's a healthy patch near Emory Campus. It was worth sweating my entire body off to swing by and visit them today!

They're currently suffering through a heat wave, like most of us.

Did these in a screenprinting class as an undergrad in maybe 1999. These are on my parents' wall, I haven't seen them in a minute.

My mom's ric-rac keeps blooming, and it's a cutting from mine which has never bloomed once in 12 years!! 😑

I fulfilled a lifelong ambition and visited the exhibit of glass botanical models at the Harvard Museum of Natural History yesterday. It really was impossible to comprehend that they were all glass. Plus, carnivores were heavily featured!

Noble sacrifices, inspiring weevil appreciation for generations of visitors!

Sealing with gel topcoat nail polish and curing with UV light seems to work really well! I'll probably go back and seal all my stones now that I know.

I think I'll be able to use my wife's gel nail polish (that cures under UV) to make a permanent seal layer. That stuff is indestructible!!

I want to do a front and back view zebra on this stone, so I'm halfway done.

This time of year I always find a few dead cicadas outside my building at work. I'm pretty happy with the linework here, now I need to color it in!!

This crazy "yeti crab" lives around boiling hot deep-sea hydrothermal vents.

Since I have access to super-fine pens and a microscope, I thought I'd see what it's like to make an extra-tiny rock illustration. Answer: it's fun!

I was going to fill in the background with pale green or blue, but was advised that it kind of looks like sand if I leave it natural. This is the first one (of four total) where I feel like I used the 3d shape of the stone and not just the "top" flat surface.

I'm mostly using marker and fine-liner pens for these.

Possum and Dungeness crab.

I'm using a mix of different pens and markers, some of them seem to be dissolving the others. Much to learn!