Prairie Rose Hips Original Gouache Painting

Prairie Rose Hips, Gouache on panel, 2024

Sprouting up in the border between the road and the driveway, this is the same plant that was painted earlier in the summer — the prairie rose. While not as well known as rose petals, rose hips are equally worth of our admiration and foraging. When I’m able to find them away from roadways, I enjoy them as tea or infused into oil to use in body lotion or shampoo.

These en plein air field studies in natural ink and gouache capture the vitality and beauty of even the humblest plant. Native, naturalized, and invasive plants are all captured equally as they appear in my yard throughout the seasons. See the entire Backyard Botanical series.

Original Painting

Prairie Rose Hips, 2024
12” X 12”

Gouache, walnut ink on archival cold press paper.

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