Here you will find more recent artworks and some progress photos of my “Los Angeles Chaparral Scavenger Hunt” and “Tarot of the Chaparral” projects. I am very excited about these projects which has become part of my daily life (by going outdoors, photographing, reading, studying, drawing, brainstorming, and so on). I want to help promote an awareness and appreciation for native plant and animal species, I can’t wait to share all that I have in store!
-Sylvia
“Winter: Black Sage” and “Autumn: White Sage” are two recent soil based watercolors painted in late 2025.
Drawings of The Hanged One and Death from “Tarot of the Chaparral” project, 2024- 2025.
"Judgement (detail)" Pencil Drawing, 2025.
Painting Session
February 2025: I recently purchased a palette from The Art of Soil, which produces ecological watercolors. I’m excited to share more art that incorporates these wonderful soil based paints!
Studying Wildlife
Here’s a coyote I painted in my sketchbook with the soil based watercolor palette I purchased this month (Feb. 2025).
The Chariot
Pencil Drawing, 2024.
California Poppy
Ink Drawing, 2024.
Study of Black Sage
Watercolor Painting, 2024.
Justice
Pencil Drawing, 2024.
Sacred Datura, photographed June 2024.
A view from a spring hike, 2024.
Deerweed during mid-spring, May 2024.
White Sage, photographed April 2024.
Arroyo Lupine, May 2024.
Coloring one of my Ceanothus drawings in Procreate, May 2024.
A Darkling Beetle next to Black Mustard. April 2024.
Black Sage flowering in mid spring, 2024.
Chaparral covered hillsides, 2024.