Bouquets – Ellis Hollow

Organic groupings — lately composed digitally but older ones arranged right on the platen.

Bouquet for Jimmy
(December 2024)

While I was walking the dogs around a nearby field, stuffing weeds, invasives and the like into an old ornamental gourd I found, Jimmy Carter died. First president I voted for. Still my favorite.

(Foxtail, milkweed, multiflora rose, bittersweet, nightshade and more. Photoshopped in the foxtail and milkweed, but the rest is an actual bouquet.)

Cinco de Mayo fireworks
(May 2024)

Half of a 4-square makes a nice bouquet sometimes.

Old school daffs
(April 2024)

Peak daffodil season. This is an old-school scan where I actually arranged the stems on the scanner platen. No Photoshop involved.

Katy and friends
(March 2024)

Iris ‘Katharine Hodgkin’ and a fancy snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis ‘Flore Pleno’ I think) from some early spring weekend doodles.

Early Bloomers
(February 2024)

Still too cold to do fresh scans, though ephemerals are blooming early outside. So I used last year’s scans to create this bouquet that also morphed into a 4-square and a mandala.

daffs in mason jars with cherry branches — Daffodil Daze 2 (April 2021)

Daffodil Daze 2
(April 2021)

Recently rediscovered this work from a few springs back that only ever got shared on Instagram. My favorite tattoo artist told me she loves that medium because the pigments stay where she puts them. I feel the same away about arranging flowers in virtual canning jars.

hellebores — Hellebore bouquet (Aoril 2023).

spring ephemerals and other treasures — Willow and ephemeral bouquet (March 2023). Fodder for a mandala, too.

gray day wallpaper — Ephemeral and hellebore bouquet (April 2023). Part of a larger tessellation.

Daffodils in Mason jars (April 2018) — Daffodil Daze (April 2018)

Tulips et al, later used as cover for The Vegetarian (May 2013)

Bloom Day Scan (May 2008) – Later Diamond Day poster

my first scan — My first scan while reading NYTimes article about Ellen Hoverkamp (April 2005)