Huckleberry painting

Here is a beautiful vintage botanical illustration of Blackthorn. The leaves are green with tinges of yellow and the berries are blue-purple in color. I scanned the original image from Wild Fruits of the Country Side by F. Edward Hulme, 1907. Click on image to enlarge. Related posts that may interest you: Yew and Dogwood Botanical Illustration Vintage...Read More

Here is a sample of playing. I didn't have a model to look at nor did I work from a pre-sketched outline. I wanted to create berries and just tried to estimate where I wanted the main group to be and started working from there. As I painted the berries, I would stop and determine where I wanted to go from there. I was playing with wet in wet for the background letting pigment and water run and mingle.

#huckleberry draw

Fabric art collage with machine and hand embroidery, sewing, yarns and threads. I love eating red huckleberries and so do bears. SOLD. Private collection, Vancouver BC. www.chursinoff.com/kirsten/

Huckleberry (Gaylussacia baccata).

Bolton C. Brown (American, 1864–1936), Huckleberry, 1924, ink on paper, lithograph, 9-1/4 x 7-1/4 in. (image); 10-5/8 x 8-3/4 in. (sheet). Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Gift of Mrs. Lucy Fletcher Brown, 40.39.

ARTICLE ON GROWING WILD BLUEBERRY AND HUCKLEBERRY from Brooklyn Botanic Garden Vaccinium corymbosum (highbush blueberry)