#TurtleTuesday🐢: Tureen in the form of a sea turtle probably Birmingham, England, c.1830 Fused silver plate, L 16½ in (419 mm) x W 17¼ in (235 mm) x H 9¾ in (248 mm) On display at Winterthur’s Campbell Collection of Soup Tureens 96.4.54
Yeah, that's a good point. Is there any book where her fungi paintings are nicely reproduced? 'a Victorian naturalist' could be better
I think I’m done. ‘So Mushroom’ - illustrated with Karisma colour pencils, Unipin fineliners & Sakura Gelly Roll. I will be selling prints of this… it’s in season! #mushroomart#MushroomMonday#FungiFriends 🍄📷
I'm doing one of those chatty nights - talking to Nicholas P. Money about 'Molds, Mushrooms & Medicines' - on Wednesday 16 October in Brighton, UK, for BRIGHTHINK. ▶️https://www.brighthink.org/in-conversation/moulds-mushrooms-medicine
🚨Breaking: Just seven out of 87 fossil fuel companies operating in the North Sea will invest anything in renewable energy by 2030, according to Uplift:
Her illustrations became fairly well known after 1967 when the 'wayside and woodland' fungi book was published featuring a number of her paintings but that book didn't seem to sell well and didn't become a widely used field guide
I've written a post about things to read, if you're interested in the history of mycological illustration. It's mainly just for the one person that I know definitely is interested in this. But who knows, maybe there are more of us? #MycoBookClub#HistSci#SciArtopen.substack.com/pub/mycobook...
I think you're right with Golden, Butter Waxcaps tends to have a translucent central 'eye'