Forest x Friends

Which butterfly? I’m not sure if the Monarch butterfly adds too much orange. Help me decide!

Yellow butterfly (Anise Swallowtail)
OR
Orange butterfly (Monarch)

This art nouveau inspired illustration is for a garden sign commission but I also want to stock one of these designs so let me know which one you like best! 💚

I’ll be vending at Ploughshares Nursery in Alameda this coming Saturday! Get stickers, prints and garden signs inspired by California nature. Shop my art while enjoying live music, food and more at a nursery non-profit!💚

Ploughshares is an amazing community resource for organic gardening and native plants, while also being a non-profit whose sales support housing. Come by on Saturday to support this amazing community organization! 🌱

Surprise! Game of Shrooms! Find (and keep!) this original watercolor and my two mushroom stickers after I hide them somewhere in Berkeley today. 👀🍄

I’ll be posting an update with clues of where to find this later today!

This is my first time playing game of shrooms! It’s so cool that so many artists are participating in hiding their mushroom art for people to find. Check out GOS Official account to see the map!

My stickers are now available at the 💚 these stickers are inspired by Bay Area nature featuring fungi, plants & animals native to Berkeley!

And the best thing is that they are all drawn here in Berkeley, by an artist from Berkeley (me), and printed here in the Bay Area. 🌱

Get some Morel Support from my mushroom pun sticker, join the banana slug club, and let everyone know you plant native gardens! :)

Thank you to the Berkeley Herbal Center for featuring art from local artists and being such a supportive space for our community!

I’m the featured artist of the month for June! This month only, find my art on display at Berkeley Ironworks and available for purchase. Swipe to see all the prints on display! 💚

Each framed giclée print is $65 and locally printed! Each illustration features plants, pollinators, and other forest friends native to the Bay Area. From Ana’s Hummingbirds to Monarch Butterflies to Banana Slugs, celebrate California’s biodiversity through art. If you like art nouveau inspired illustrations by a local Berkeley artist, these are for you! 🦋

The frames are brass (metal) and glass.

Illustration 2 and 9 have already sold, but contact me if you want a print! I have more in stock. Everything else is still available. 🌱

DM me to purchase! :)

Grasshopper and Sunflower is the last prompt for and I’m so excited to have participated in all the prompts this year!

This illustration is of a California Sunflower and a Two-banded Grasshopper, both native here in California. 🌼

Thanks to the hosts for putting this challenge together! 💚🦋🪲🌼

HOSTS:
.nichole.illustration

Sticker drop! I’m so excited about all of these new and updated designs! Each features California native plants and/or pollinators (plus a mushroom friend). Gardeners, naturalists, sticker enthusiasts, I hope these designs inspire you to plant for pollinators!

Swipe to see the first sticker sheet I’m offering, which is all Bay Area native butterflies (and caterpillar). Included are: Monarch butterfly, Tiger Swallowtail butterfly, Anise Swallowtail butterfly, California Pipevine Swallowtail, Common Buckeye butterfly, Painted Lady butterfly, and a Monarch caterpillar sticker. 🦋

Also check out all the Monarch butterfly eggs on that Showy Milkweed! The real flex is that all of these plants are in my garden 💚

A new logo for 💚

Swipe to see the iterations and process of designing this new logo for Westbrae Nursery, who have supported my art and carried my stickers in their shop as soon as I worked up the nerve to ask!

Featuring Penstemons and an Anna’s Hummingbird, this logo celebrates pollinators and the plants that draw them into our gardens. 🌱

I’m so grateful for their trust and enthusiasm throughout this process!

I’m organizing an art market! I started earlier this year to connect with and support other artists in the Bay Area, and creating vending opportunities like this is just one way I’m making it happen! 💗

I’ll be vending along with fifteen (15?!) other local artists and makers on 6/26 at winery. Thanks to everyone vending at Berkeley Art Club’s first market, Donkey & Goat Winery for hosting, and YOU for marking your calendar and showing up to this Berkeley event! 💫

Enjoy natural wines, live music, delicious food, and local vendors for an evening of Bay Area magic! It’s from 5 - 9pm so you can pregame with us before Pride weekend events. 🌈😌

Swipe to see what I’m bringing to the market, along with the list of amazing vendors making this event magical on the last slide!

More info to come so follow to stay up to date!

1st photo by 💗

Happy World Bee Day! This is a Leafcutter Bee holding a little leaf in the shape of a heart 💚

Bee-ing the Solution is all about individual and collective action to protect biodiversity and nature! Plant a garden of native plants to support these bees, even if it’s just a single flower in a pot. Native bees coevolved alongside native plants and even just a small difference creates a chain of habitats.🌼

I do have this illustration available as a sticker on my Etsy if you like it!