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Academic (Illustration Professor). I try and keep native plants alive in Southern California and do a lot of drawing too.
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Blue bells, baby blue eyes, garden helper taking an unauthorized break. #nativeplants #californianatuveplants #wildflowers

A page from my current comic project about my relatives leaving Wales for the U.S. These giants are returning from battle dragging their clubs which formed the Valleys in south Wales. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #illustration #comicart

#sketchbook drawing of the beautiful view from the Star Inn, Manhilad, Wales. Heaven to sit there with a pint and a pencil on a sunny day. #landscapedrawing #Wales #drawing

First wild flower of the year - California bluebell (Phacelia campanularia) a member of the borage family. I read it likes the Mojave Desert but seems to be happy here in zone 10b - Southern California. #nativeplants #nativecaliforniaplants

Purple nightshade -solanum xanti. Will grow to about 3 feet and is poisonous but beautiful. Needs certain bees to land on it and vibrate at specific frequencies to release pollen (amazing). Read here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

One of the mallows in the Niguel Botanical Preserve here in southern Orange County. I didn’t even know this place existed until a month ago! #nativeplants #nativecaliforniaplants

The very large roots of a fallen redwood in Rockefeller Grove in Humboldt County. #californiaredwood #humboldtcounty