Art & Illustration
A digital painting of variegated string of hearts. A vine coiled all back on itself is covered with heart shaped leaves that are pink at the edges and green/gray towards the centers, which have an almost crackly texture around the leaf veins. The heart points are edged in gold leaf.
A digital painting of Sinocrassula yunnanensis ‘Chinese Jade’, a plant with rosettes of tiny round spikes that curl gently to their points. The plant is dark jade green and black, with some translucent areas. The centers of the rosettes are accented in gold leaf.
A trio of rosettes of Ruby Slippers Echevaria, one faces the viewer, two behind. The leaves are an olive green where they are new, and the edges turn deep red, then the whole leaf as sun stress increases. The entire plant is covered in a thick velvety fuzz, so the light and shadows are diffuse and it seems to glow. These leaves are also touched with gold leaf at the edges.
A digital painting, extended branches come from a central point of this green, pointy succulent, euphorbia stenoclada. The branches have smaller branches, which extend many hooks and points. The points have been highlighted with gold leaf.
An odd little plant, euphorbia japonica is an almost crystaline, rock like looking orb with pointed extensions that can sprout leaves or other, smaller orbs. The top of this one has sprouted a lovely spray of long, light weight, pointed leaves in a brilliant green.
The bottom of the orb growth is corked over- cork happens with age and sun. It’s a light tan. The more actively growing areas of the orb are a green similar to the leaves.
These tend to grow in clusters.
A sempervivum or hen and chicks with many thin, pointed leaves in a dense rosette. The leaves have a green flush at the base, Sun stress to yellow and then finally a rosy red at the tip. These tips have also been accented with gold leaf. It’s very festive.
A digital painting of a three branched plant with large, pointed spoon shaped leaves arrayed in opposing sets around a central stem, copper spoon kalanchoe is a yellow green until sunstressed. Many of the leaves show a copper brown towards their edges, more are entirely copper. The leaves have been edged in gold leaf.
A dark blueish gray with greenish cast towards the shadows when sun-stressed, echevaria “Blue Metal” is one of a kind. This simple, elegant rosette has brushes of gold leaf along the edges of its leaves.
A digital painting of an echevaria rosette with ruffled edges on its leaves. The vase color is purple, though newer leaves in the center have a green touch to them. The more sunstressed edges are bright coral, and some outermost leaves are entirely coral. The edges of the leaves have been guilded in gold leaf which gives the entire piece an unreal air.
A digital painting of cotyledon tomentosa, or Bear Paw, a thick leaved pale green succulent whose leaves look like bear paws with reddish brown claws when sunstressed. The plant has a thick fuzz. Gold leaf accents have been painted on the claws and bud coming up in the center of the plant.
A digital painting of Huernia thuretii or “lifesaver plant”, a short, stubby succulent with leaves that have four lobes with spikes at regular intervals. The plant yellows and then goes rusty red at the tips of each leaf. This specimen has two star shaped flowers and a star shaped bud- the flowers are gold with ruddy leopard like spots, and a deep well at the center. These flowers smell strongly of rot to attract pollinators. The flowers, bud, and spikes are guilded in gold leaf on this painting.
A digital painting of a strange nearly aqua blue plant capped Albuca concordiana, with leaves that look like curled ribbon, narrower towards the middle where they are newer and all bundled together at the center. Each curl has been adorned with gold leaf.
A digital painting of Blue Chalk Stick Senecio. Slightly creased, rounded lobes of leaf sprout out and up almost like very large pine needles. Newest growth towards the center has a dark green hue, and the sun exposed leaves have a definite blue color that takes on a dusty hue the longer it persists. The leaves have been given a gold leaf accent that nicely highlights the different anatomy of this succulent.
Echevaria Silver Star is a rosette of many layers of extremely elongated teardrops with extended spikes on their ends. It is a medium green, but grows pale and gains red at the tips of the spikes as it sun stresses. This one’s spikes are edges in gold leaf.
Cotyledon orbiculata “silver waves” is an almost abstract looking painting of a succulent bleached a pale gray to white in the sun. The leaves are large and wavy, tiered around a central stem. The wavy edges have been adorned with gold leaf.
