Tag: Drawing

Photo of Mike's pencil collection: A cozy, creative, and cluttered wooden shelf packed with art and stationery supplies, giving a warm, lived-in workspace feel. On the center-right there are lots of pencils and colored pencils standing upright in holders, with stacks of small notebooks or boxes nearby. In the middle sits a small gnome/elf figurine. Along the left side are books and containers holding pens and brushes. Near the bottom of the photo you can see several small white animal figurines lined up, a red/orange jar or candle, and a few small bottles. At the bottom right there’s a colorful drawing/print of a building.

Pencil Poems by Mike Lewis-Beck

aromatica poetica February 11, 2026

SMELL OF PENCILS I reek of pencils. I smell of pencils. I collect pencils— thousands by now. My first, a drawing pencil, French: Conté, forest green, an HB. Hone from cedar. Smells like incense sharpened. Shavings fill the sharpener. I throw them on a fall fire, a burning pencil smell— of pine resin or old mold. The lead doesn’t smell like lead. A mix of graphite and clay, its burn can stink of sulfur, paint impurities. Between my finger and …

Drawing by the author of objects evocative of smell - a grey pot of boiling orange liquid, its fire obscured by herbs and flowers, a pink tea cup, and cake with blue and green candles.

“To My Sense of Smell” * Poetry * Gabriela Iacovano

aromatica poetica January 28, 2021

*This poem was inspired by the recent loss of my sense of smell since I contracted COVID-19.* passed the season in rose-muddied berry-tinted dairy-clotted clouds tiny porcelain-and-steam pillars sweet smoke spirals ancient resins candied orange when id never eat it lathering creamy wintry bubbles carrying honeyed mists crushing petals breaking seeds laying ferns on cakes blooming magic feels your absence in the glitter and fog of my soup pot oily kale on broth swirling sea plant emerald frills golden …

“Goldilocks Ensemble”: a photograph of children’s books such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Blue-Sky Thinking, etc. Three books are open with words blacked out.

“Goldilocks Closet Secrets” * Images + Text * Janina Aza Karpinska

aromatica poetica December 7, 2020

Here are some pages from different editions of Goldilocks from my collection of Goldilocks Files –Treated, or altered pages, in the style of Tom Phillips, which was a technique I chanced upon years ago, and which gave me the words and expression I lacked by any other means. I have chosen those which relate to the senses – taste; scent; pleasure. As a little bit of background on the actual technique: I’m indebted to stumbling across the Tom Phillips technique …

Five flower drawings based on those in the 1797 Botanical Magazine: Ixia flexuosa (Six-petaled white flower with a pink center and sparse, long, thin grooved leaves); Campanula speculum (Bluish on the outside purplish towards the center. Five petals and broad smooth-edged leaves); Aster tenellus (Small white petals around a yellow noduled center on a long green stalk with narrow leaves); Campanula carpatica (Light purple on the outside, dark purple towards the center. One flower is opened completely and the others are buds. Five petals fuse together towards the center in a kind of bowl shape, and the leaves are broad and jagged); Potentilla grandiflora (Five heart-shaped yellow petals with a greenish ball ornamented center.

Botanical Flower mask & Mini Art Prints Based on Curtis’ 1787 Botanical Magazine

aromatica poetica October 26, 2020

These botanical flower drawings are hand-rendered by Alabaster Rhumb and based on those by William Curtis in his 1787 Botanical Magazine. The flowers create a wallpaper effect in our Botanical Flower Mask, while each flower—Aster tenellus, Campanula carpatica, Campanula speculum, Ixia flexuosa, Potentilla grandiflora—is also available from Society6 as a mini art print or mini framed art print. Botanical Magazine Front matter The Botanical Magazine Or, Flower-Garden Displayed: In Which The most Ornamental Foreign Plants, cultivated in the Open …