Michelle McCoy

artworks

Botanical Beasties

About the work: These prints may appear to be animated and fanciful creatures, but they are all based on actual plants and organic matter. They might also be referred to as zoophytes. This series is called Botanical Beasties to describe the blending of two sources of inspiration: the traditional herbal and the bestiary. The Latin name for the actual plant is given first, followed by the alias of the “beastie”. The original series of drawings was executed in ink and gouache and can be viewed in the Drawings series: Probable Improbable.

Creation dates: 2009 – 2010.
Medium: Etching
Size: 4″ x 6″
Edition: Vertical prints are editions of 20; Horizontal prints are editions of 10.

Series: Botanical Beasties

Lemboglossum rossii, or
The Ascot Bibberbiddy

Series: Botanical Beasties

Cypripedium, or The Gypsy Bagalag

Series: Botanical Beasties

Oncidium, or The Bobbing Teddy Hounds

Series: Botanical Beasties

Pisum sativa, or The Dapper Glow Cloaker

Series: Botanical Beasties

Adientum pedantum, or The Nocturnal Lemasupial

Series: Botanical Beasties

Columna “Robin” or, The Plucky Pelted Poppets

Series: Botanical Beasties

Disa uniforma, or The Boggle-boff Ballyhoo

Series: Botanical Beasties

Calypso bulbosa, or The Tip Toe Fandangelo

Series: Botanical Beasties

Globba radicalis, or The Crooning Mongrelis

Series: Botanical Beasties

Phalaenopsis, or The Long-nosed Wingnut

Series: Botanical Beasties

Viburnum, or The Totem Wompons

Series: Botanical Beasties

Found stick or, The Shifty-eyed Twizzler

Series: Botanical Beasties

Asclepias syriaca, or The Fluffer Nutter

 

Series: Botanical Beasties

Psychopsis papilio, or The Falsetto Crown Mummer

 

 

 

Series: Botanical Beasties

Nepenthes ruffesiana, or The Tut Jugmuggle

Series: Botanical Beasties

Aerides odorata, or The Drowsy Tuffet Whumps

Series: Botanical Beasties

Paeonia, or The Fuddy Rumple Grimacer

Series: Botanical Beasties

Psychopsis papilio, or The Falsetto Crown Mummer

Series: Botanical Beasties

Acer campestre or, The Swooping Jibjabs

Series: Botanical Beasties

Angraecum eburneum, or The Tart-mouthed Grumpons

Series: Botanical Beasties

Phragmipedium sedenii, or The Royal Swaddled Flapdoodle

Series: Botanical Beasties

Aeschynanthus “Black Pagoda,” or The Chuckle Bass Flippant

Series: Botanical Beasties

Schlumbergera, or The Diving Swany Apso

Series: Botanical Beasties

Macropedia, or The Slack-jawed Polyglotinus

Series: Botanical Beasties

Pyrus, or The Periscopic Peckeroo