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“Fairy Arch”, gouache and coloured pencil, 2025
Make it yours: https://lindenshieldarts.com/products/mixed-media-original-fairy-arch
Can you guess what the glowing green flowers at the base are inspired by? 
@hagaesthetic @beandreams In addition to following hashtags like #BloomScrolling #Mosstodon #Ferndiverse #LichenSubscribe #mushtodon you may soon find yourself wanting to be on a better server (instance) for your account. I recommend flipping.rocks and sunny.garden for your interests.
Helvella lacunosa
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Helvella_lacunosa.html
Ecology: Probably mycorrhizal; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously in woods under conifers—often in disturbed ground (roadbanks, landscaping sites, and so on); in eastern North America usually found in wet, mossy areas in cold conifer bogs; summer and fall; originally described from Europe, and widely distributed there, although more common in montane and boreal regions; reported from Asia and Central America; in North America widely distributed, especially in northern and montane regions. The illustrated and described collections (aside from Schaeffer's illustration of the type) are from Michigan.
Cap: 1-4 cm across and 1-5 cm high; irregularly lobed and convoluted, or occasionally loosely saddle-shaped or cushion-shaped; black to very dark brown; bald but wrinkled; the margin usually attached to the stem in several places; undersurface bald, gray to grayish brown.
Stem: 1.5-4 cm long; 5-15 mm thick; sometimes whitish when young, but soon grayish to dark gray; deeply and ornately ribbed and pocketed—the ribs rounded, or sometimes sharp and double-edged.
Flesh: Thin; brittle; chambered; whitish to grayish.
Odor: Not distinctive.
Microscopic Features: Spores 13-18 x 9-11 m; broadly ellipsoid; smooth; with one oil large droplet; hyaline in KOH and in water. Asci 200-250 x 10-15 m; 8-spored. Paraphyses 200-250 x 2.5-10 m; filiform, with rounded to clavate apices; smooth; hyaline to brownish, often with granular contents. Excipular surface a palisade of clavate, hyaline to brown terminal elements.
You might remember me mentioning that I currently participate in another exhibition at Wyrd #Strasbourg and as part of this exhibition, where all pieces have to be created by at least two artists, several of us filled a sketchbook together. I had the honour of doing the very first page and ofc I cheated a little and painted on black paper that I then glued/taped in there. 
This is from 22 May 2018
Amanita muscaria watercolor sketch. Swipe to see a close up.
I have figured out a way to make this one international shipping-proof! The green base will be shaped with felt instead of plant matter. Felt should prove to be a lot less problematic to import in the US, UK, and hopefully even Australia.
Now to figure out if I can still have a wooden base. Keep tuned!
There we go - I realized in May 2018 that I could also use fabrics and felt instead of dried plant matter. Around that time, there wasn’t much moss embroidery, nor were many people putting mushrooms under glass domes. Funny how that has since grown into something I seem to see everywhere now! I never thought there would be so many people interested in creating moss or loving it. I still seem to be the only one adding lights to them though!
#sketch #art #mushroom #mushtodon
Craterellus ignicolor
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Craterellus_ignicolor.html
Ecology: Mycorrhizal with oaks, beech, and birches; growing gregariously or in clusters in moss or sphagnum in damp, shady areas; apparently widely distributed in eastern North America; summer and fall. The illustrated and described collections are from Illinois and Michigan.
Cap: 1.5-5 cm wide; planoconvex when very young but soon developing a central depression and, eventually, becoming vase-shaped, with a perforated center; with a wavy and often irregular or scalloped margin at maturity; slightly moist when fresh, but soon dry; bald or, when young, with a canescent sheen from tiny, appressed, whitish fibrils; bright orange to orangish yellow or brownish yellow, fading with age to dull yellowish.
Undersurface: With fairly well developed, thick, blunt false gills that run down the stem; becoming cross-veined; pale yellow to grayish at first, developing pinkish to faintly purplish hues at maturity and, eventually, becoming very pale tan.
Stem: 2-6 cm long; 3-10 mm thick; equal or tapering to base; becoming hollow; bald, with a somewhat waxy texture; bright orange-yellow to orange; basal mycelium bright yellow.
Flesh: Thin; whitish.
Odor and Taste: Taste not distinctive; odor not distinctive, or slightly fruity.
Spore Print: Pinkish yellow to yellow.
Chemical Reactions: Iron salts grayish to negative on undersurface; negative on flesh. KOH negative on cap surface.
Microscopic Features: Spores 9-12 x 6-8 ellipsoid; smooth; faintly ochraceous in KOH; with minutely granular contents; cyanophilous. Basidia 4-sterigmate; 65-75 long. Hymenial cystidia not found. Pileipellis not differentiated. Elements of upper surface 5-7.5 wide; hyaline in KOH; smooth; clamped at septa.
Aureoboletus mirabilis
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Aureoboletus_mirabilis.html
Ecology: Mycorrhizal; associated with hemlocks; growing alone, scattered, or gregariously on well-decayed, mossy hemlock stumps and logs—or terrestrially in the vicinity of hemlock stumps; fall and winter; distributed from northern California to Alaska. The illustrated and described collection is from Oregon.
Cap: 8-16 cm; convex, becoming broadly convex or slightly bell-shaped; dry; granular-felty, becoming finely scaly with age; brownish red to brownish purple; the margin with an overhanging, sterile portion.
Pore Surface: Bright to dull yellow when young; becoming olive yellow as spores mature; not bruising; about 1 pore per mm at maturity; tubes to 2 cm deep.
Stem: 7-10 cm long; 1.5-3 cm thick; club-shaped, especially when young; solid; yellow at apex but elsewhere dark brown to dark reddish brown, streaked with paler areas; not bruising; bald below and sometimes overall, but usually coarsely reticulate over the upper portion.
Flesh: Whitish to pale yellowish; sometimes purplish under the cap cuticle; not staining on exposure.
Odor and Taste: Not distinctive.
Spore Print: Olive brown.
Microscopic Features: Spores 16-22 x 6-8 m; fusiform; smooth; golden in KOH. Basidia 4-sterigmate; about 40 x 12.5 m; clavate. Hymenial cystidia 60-80 x 7.5-12.5 m; cylindric to fusiform; smooth; thin-walled; hyaline in KOH. Pileipellis a trichoderm; elements 4-8 m wide, smooth or slightly encrusted, hyaline to golden in KOH; terminal cells subclavate, or cylindric with rounded apices.
@oraculix 
ooh, we’re science-ing! #lichensubscribe #mushtodon
#FractalFriday meets #FungiFriday meets #Mosstodon. 
It's been raining for days on end, which means that the moss is happy, growing shiny and bright green. In this case on a bracket fungus that grows on a tree stump hosting 3 generations of them.
This is from 2 June 2018
Amanita muscaria. The yellow light turns red on the top, with lovely brighter and darker channels. Those are really hard to take good pictures of, so you will just have to trust my words when I say it's even better in real life.
Apparently, lights are hard to take pictures of -doubly so when placed under a glass dome. If the lighting isn’t just right, the camera will only capture reflections on the glass rather than the mushroom lights beneath it. But if the lighting works for the glass dome, it might be completely wrong for the mushroom lights. Sometimes, I just take two pictures - one with the glass and one without - then combine them in my editing software later.
Even then, the lights never look exactly as they do in real life. They always lose detail. In reality, there are lighter and darker areas on the lights, with soft color variations. In photos, those differences mostly wash out. The good thing about this is that if you get one of the lights, you’ll probably love it even more than the pictures!
#mushroom #mosstodon #art #mushtodon #LichenSubscribe #MastoArt
This is from 2 June 2018
Amanita muscaria, the final picture. Tomorrow I will post it again, but with the lights on. I am much happier with the result then I thought I would be. It's right out of a fairy tale without being overly cute.
It’s funny how my opinion keeps shifting about pieces I’ve made. I wouldn’t make this the same way now—probably wouldn’t make an Amanita again for quite a while. Maybe never? But I do still like this one.
I think I’m just on a different path in my work now. I’m more drawn to the small, almost microscopic. Or maybe the very, very big—since I haven’t made anything huge in a long time.
#mushroom #mushtodon #mosstodon #ArtistsOnMastodon #moss
Cortinarius malicorius
https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Cortinarius_malicorius.html
Ecology: Mycorrhizal with conifers, especially pines; growing scattered or gregariously, often in wet areas or with sphagnum; fall (and winter on the West Coast); widely distributed in North America but more common in the Northeast.
Cap: 1.5-5 cm; convex or nearly conical at first, becoming broadly convex, flat, depressed, or broadly bell-shaped; fairly dry; silky to finely scaly; yellowish or orangish at first, often with olive tones, becoming orangish brown to cinnamon brown overall.
Gills: Attached to the stem but sometimes pulling away from it in age; close; orange at first, becoming cinnamon to rusty; covered by a yellowish to orangish cortina when young.
Stem: 2-7 cm long; up to 1 cm thick; more or less equal; dry; silky with orangish to yellowish (later cinnamon) fibers; yellowish, often discoloring olive brown to brownish below; sometimes with a rusty ring zone.
Flesh: Yellowish or olive.
Odor: Radishlike.
Chemical Reactions: KOH on cap surface red or reddish black.
Spore Print: Rusty brown.
Microscopic Features: Spores 6-7.5 x 4-4.5 ; ellipsoid; moderately roughened. Cheilo- and pleurocystidia absent, but inconspicuous marginal cells present on gill edges. Pileipellis a cutis. Contextual and lamellar elements pinkish purple to purplish in KOH.
This is from 21 April 2018
Sold today! There's still a few available at Terrarium Imaginarium
Terrarium Imaginarium was a shop near me that sold a few of my lights, along with many other nature- and fantasy-inspired things. It has since closed.
This light was very minimal - no mosses, just wood. It has a nice feel, as if I had simply grabbed a piece of tree bark from outside, mushrooms still attached, and placed it under a glass dome. But I do miss the moss. I think I've become too captivated by mosses to leave them out of any future lights.
#mushtodon #art #ArtistsOnMastodon
[EDIT: The right one already found a home, thank you so much! Still one left though~ 
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Two new original paintings are up for sale!
Gouache and coloured pencil on watercolour paper, based on personal photos
Adopt them: https://lindenshieldarts.com/products/mixed-media-originals-amanita
