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Deyanna
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Botanical Illustration | Gardening | Nature | Science | Spooky Stuff | Happily Married w/ 2 Kids
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“Glass Gem” Corn / Maize / Zea Mays
Colored pencil on 11x14 Bristol
#BotanicalIllustration 🌱
Colored pencil drawing of rainbow colored corn and dried husk #SciArt
November 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Corn WIP in colored pencil #BotanicalIllustration
Work in progress drawing in colored pencil of rainbow “glass gem” corn cob #BotanicalIllustration #SciArt
October 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Process video of hop leaf in graphite
#BotanicalIllustration
October 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Large leaf from a hop vine piece in graphite. Almost done. Trying to make a process video to post too. 🌱
Black and white graphite drawing of a leaf with three pointed lobes and palmate veination #BotanicalIllustration #SciArt #Botany #illustration #pencil #graphite #hops
October 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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My kid and I assisted with the birth of triplets today. It was downright magical.
A baby goat, less than 2 hours old, is sleeping in the arms of a kid in a green shirt. The wee goat is tri-colored, mostly black and brown with white spots on the ankles and a white patch on top of her head. #goats
August 13, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Find the bird, hard mode
#bird #birdwatching #puzzle #WheresWaldo #sunflowers #camouflage #goldfinch
July 31, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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I love when the harvest is extra colorful!
An image of this morning’s harvest from my garden. There are red tomatoes, orange/yellow tomatoes, dark green cucumber, green peppers, orange pepper, purple pepper, yellow and green striped squash, raspberries, and a mini white with yellow stripes pumpkin. #Gardening #Harvest #Garden
July 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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The Corn Lily (Veratrum californicum) can grow to altitudes up to 11,000ft. The tall perennial plant is extremely toxic, can live 50+ years, and only flowers once. I saw fields filled with hundreds and hundreds of them, but only this one was flowering.
Full view of the entire corn lily plant. It has thick, heavily veined, bright green leaves that are about 12 in long and spiral up the stem. The flowering plant is about 7 feet tall. The inflorescence on top resembles the tiny flowers of a cornstalk, splayed out in all directions. Closer view of the corn lily inflorescence. Bright green stems extend out, covered in tiny white and yellow flowers. Close up view of the small flowers on the corn lily. Each has 6 arrow-shaped, highly divided white petals with a green center and faint yellow anthers. #CBWF #CrestedButte #Wildflowers #CornLily #Botany #Plants #CrestedButteWildflowerFestival #NerdyNaturalist #Naturalist
July 23, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Today at the Crested Butte Wildflower Festival, I got to see Bladderwort (an aquatic carnivorous plant) and Wood Lily (ecologically unique to the area). Then I attended a watercolor and wine session where I painted Red Paintbrushes #CBWF
An image of tiny yellow flowers. It is the visible part of an aquatic, carnivorous plant called Bladderwort. Underwater, it is similar to a Venus flytrap Reference photo of Red Paintbrushes A quick watercolor painting of red paintbrushes and purple asters
July 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Another gorgeous day at the Crested Butte Wildflower Festival 🌸 🌱 #CBWF
Yellow and purple wildflowers in the foreground with a meadow and mountains behind A doe in the shade between the trees An mountain expansive view from Mt Crested Butte #CrestedButte #Colorado #CBWF
July 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Crested Butte Wildflower Festival
Overhead view of a Mariposa Lily flower. It has 3 white petals with a dark ring toward the center, 6 burgundy anthers, and lots fuzzy yellow around the middle. Scarlet Gilia flowers. Each stalk has several trumpet-shaped, crazy bright red flowers. Behind them is a mountain meadow dotted with more wildflowers and a blue sky with puffy white clouds. Dark purple Monkshood flowers on a tall, swirly stem. Wild Rocky Mountain Columbine flower. It’s mostly white with faint blue. Bright yellow anthers and filament puff out from the middle. #CrestedButte #Wildflowers #WildflowerFestival #CBWF
July 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Hello #PortfolioDay ! I’m a botanical illustrator working in traditional mediums and sometimes digital. These examples are watercolor and ink.
🌱 #SciArt
Watercolor painting of 3 vertically stacked succulents as viewed from above. The top one is a dark green, chunky rosette with burgundy edging and a satin-silvery sheen. The middle succulent is a bright yellow-green rosette with shiny, little leaves and a pup growing out to the left. The bottom one is lime green and rusty red with elongated chunky leaves. A vertically stacked ink drawing representing the parts of a Bur Oak tree. The ink work is a combination of stipple, hatching, and line. From bottom to top, the parts are: Bark, twig, leaf, catkin, flower, and acorn (which is very hairy looking). Ink drawing of a very lumpy pumpkin. The ink work is mostly stipple with some line and hatching. The pumpkin is turned on it’s side so the stem is pointed towards the viewer and slightly up to the right. This thing is seriously crazy lumpy. Image of a watercolor painting in front of it’s subject, a lumpy gourd. The gourd is lying down horizontally and has a bottle-like shape with a curved neck. It is mostly a creamy yellow color with dark green stripes running top to bottom. There’s a good amount of lumps and scuffs/scars.
July 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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This is my favorite thing today. happy 4th of July, y’all. 💥
A screenshot of a post from a neighborhood app titled “Best local urgent care?”. The body of the post reads “What’s the best urgent care in this area? I need somewhere that specializes in the discrete reattachment of digits. I don’t need someone to preach to me, just the sutures.”
July 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Mountain hiking, wildflowers, and cool bugs with my kiddo is good for the soul (despite the heat)
A kid in a wide brimmed hat, wearing a black backpack, blue/green camo printed sun shirt, knee high Jurassic Park socks, and hiking shoes. He is walking down a hiking trail running along the side of a steep mountainside covered in large boulders, evergreen trees, and various shrubs. A bright pink/purple flower inflorescence. The small tubular flowers shoot out of the center like fireworks. Background is out of focus greenery and soil. An inflorescence of tiny, bright yellow flowers. The background is out of focus greenery. A super cool beetle but I don’t know what it is and have never seen one before. It landed on my kid and stayed a while for a photo shoot. The body is long with ridges running in stripes long-ways. It’s mostly a combination of lime and emerald greens with a red-orange stripe down the center and along the outer edges and head. The whole thing glitters in the sunlight. Six little legs, two tiny antennae.
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Last night’s hail storm was not kind to my garden. Pumpkin leaves look like Swiss cheese. #cowx 🌱
Image of large pumpkin leaves filled with holes and tears from pea-quarter sized hail
June 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Perfume of the summer: Eau de Murphy’s. Absolutely *drenched* in it because my bite reaction is no joke.
I busted through the fingers on my last gloves so these are still sparking clean, just ripped the tags off. Something about putting on fresh gloves is so satisfying. 🌱 #gardening
A hand wearing a bright flowery gardening glove (brand new so still clean), in front of tomato plants, holding a spray bottle of Murphy’s lemon eucalyptus oil mosquito and tick repellent #gardenproblems
June 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I’m not as good at this as @riotgrlerin.bsky.social but you’re right that Miller deserves one.
The soulless, craven ghoul known as Stephen Miller, looking like an evil piece of shit. A gray shitter with open round lid to match Stephen Miller’s stupid head. A TP roll hangs off the side.
June 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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One week of growth. Look at that corn! 🌱
Picture of my garden 1 week earlier. The beds are filled with pumpkins, squash, beans, tomatoes, peppers, corn, and numerous surrounding flowers and herbs. Hop vines can be seen growing above/behind the fence. Picture of my garden this week (one week later than the other photo). The vegetables have grown significantly. Particularly, the corn.
June 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Peony arrangements from my garden 🌱
Purple vase holding pink peonies and purple salvia Blue glass Ball jar holding pink peonies and purple salvia
June 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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👀 creeping on this thread and feeling very validated. This is a small section of my home library.
A row of books all related to botany, gardening, and self-sufficiency
May 31, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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I don’t support literacy tests. But I’m not sure why republicans would either.
A graph showing U.S. counties that moved left or right (denoted by blue or red dots, sized for population) during last 3 elections. The bottom portion of the chart, representing the lowest levels of education, skew heavily red.
May 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Spring! 🌱
Parrot Tulips - frilled and ruffled petals. “Black” parrots in the foreground appear and deep, velvety burgundy color. Behind and out of focus are shades of pink, yellow, purple, and red/orange. Checkered Lilies - dark purple/red wine color mixed with lighter pink/white spots create a checkered effect on the petals of the downward drooping flower Overhead view of a mostly white Tulip with plum purple brush-y stripes, yellow-green stamen, and black anthers A bee visits a light periwinkle/purple colored Grape Hyacinth
April 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Screenshot of the end of the survey. Fake name: Anita Nuprez
April 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Quercus Macrocarpa
Bur Oak / Mossy Oak Tree
Part 3: Leaf
14 x 11 Ink on Bristol
#SciArt #BotanicalIllustration #art #plants #botany 🌱
Half finished drawing of an oak leaf using black ink, mostly stippling with some line and hatching Image of the completed bur oak leaf drawing. Black ink stipple, line, and hatching
March 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Dots!
Stippling away at this Bur Oak / Mossy Oak leaf (Quercus Macrocarpa)
#SciArt #BotanicalIllustration
March 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM