Christy's Gallery
Fabric Prints
These are nature prints of New Zealand ferns on napkins, collections of
plants on valences, and flowers or leaves on children's clothing.
When we went to New Zealand
to attend a nature printing workshop, I printed some of the many, many
New Zealand ferns on a set of white napkins.
I printed a window valence
with plants found around Nags Head, North Carolina, during the NPS
workshop there.
At the NPS workshop in
Sitka, AK, I printed flowers found around the town on a window valence
We took a walk in the woods
near Sitka, AK, and I printed some of the native plants I found there
on this window valence.
I bought onesies at GAP
and printed ginkgo leaves on one for a baby gift.
This is a California Poppy
printed on a onesie.
I printed autumn leaves of
a Western Sugar Maple from the UC Davis Arboretum on a GAP shirt that
came with a little sparkly heart on it.
Pansies are rewarding to
print on little shirts. They have such pretty colors and a flat “face”
so it’s relatively easy.
Turf Illustrations
Illustrations of turf grasses were made for an Integrated Pest
Management program website in 2002. The site includes an illustrated
key to help interested people identify the grasses in their lawns.
Dichondra can be used as a
type of “lawn” though it isn’t a kind of grass.
This is Hard Fescue, which
is often left to grow naturally in clumps instead of being mowed. The
leaf blades are stiff.
This is Kentucky Bluegrass,
a popular lawn grass.
One way to identify
different grasses is to look at the ligule, found where the leaf blade
separates from the stalk. The ligule may look like one of these.
Harpsichord Gallery
These are illustrations of California flora and fauna painted with
acrylics directly on a Sitka spruce harpsichord soundboard for a client
in 1991.
The “rose” is surrounded by
the four plants the client studied, Clarkia, Datura, Larkspur and
yeast, joined by insects, a bee, a mouse, and Veronica the cat.
Coast Redwood sprig with
cones and Redwood Sorrel with a Banana Slug.
Scrub Jay sitting on a
Valley Oak tree and holding one of its acorns.
Endangered San Francisco
Garter Snake curled around holes which would hold the tuning pins when
the harpsichord was finished.
California Quail chicks.
Western Swallowtail
butterfly, Red Ribbons (Clarkia concinna), and
Calypso orchid.
California Poppy with
ladybug larvae on it.
This is the whole
harpsichord soundboard. It was divided into three sections by raised
pieces of wood which would position the strings when the harpsichord
was finished.
IPM Illustrations
These are pen and ink illustrations for the University of California's
Integrated Pest Management program's Pest Notes publications on various
plant diseases and pests of interest to the public.
This is a sprig of Box
Elder with a cluster of winged fruit.
The little white fuzzy
blobs are Hackberry Wooly Aphids on Hackberry tree leaves.
Eastern Fox Squirrels can
be pests in California orchards, though this one was fun to watch and
photograph in a park in Oakland.
This is a Carpenterworm
that has tunneled into a tree trunk.
