Category: Nature

A long landscape sketch in watercolour
JaneBaxter

Long Landscape Sketch

A quick landscape sketch in watercolour, in situ, somewhere in Yorkshire! On a camping get away with friend Sharon, we stopped off at a particularly

Drawing of Fly Agaric mushroom with a red and white top on a monochrome back ground painted in shaggy ink cap ink
JaneBaxter

Amanita muscaria Drawing

This Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) was one of a patch we’ve visited for a few years now in a local wood – a magical place!

Illustration - coloured pencil drawing of a Peacock Butterfly
JaneBaxter

Peacock Butterfly

I drew this butterfly as a special gift. Butterflies can represent many different things: – Change and transformation – New life – Endurance – Hope

Eratigena sp Spider Copper plate page in sketchbook
JaneBaxter

Eratigena sp Etchy Sketch

A wee squint into a sketchy spidery page of my etching sketchbook. A brief glimpse into the beginnings of working-out the workings of (my) arachnophobia.

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Orkney Grasses

This was the very first copper plate etching plate I ever did! Malcolm, Bernard and I were in Orkney. A very special trip, a mission

Hogweed - a monotone copper plate etching print which used aquatint
JaneBaxter

Hogweed II

This was a fairly early etching on my ‘printmaking journey’. Stopping out was more meticulous than my eyes allowed for, especially with the studio gloopy

Hogweed II - copper plate etching with line and aquatint
JaneBaxter

Hogweed I

Another Hogweed copper plate etching (See ‘Hogweed II’ here)! A distant relative (who I never met) was an artist, and as a child I was

Trees II, Copper Plate Etching
JaneBaxter

Branching Out

Like Into the Trees, this print took off in its own direction! I’ve never managed to do the copy/ paste/ tracing method that a lot

Copper Plate Etching - Trees I
JaneBaxter

Into the Trees

I enjoyed drawing this tree, it took a wee life of its own after the start. I love it when that happens! It’s a less