CCreech Studio

12/03/2025

I have been working on a little something…

Check out my new, Circular Celestial Observation Calendar for 2026! A PDF downloadable designed specifically to allow *you* to add your own notes and drawings during the year. The sale price runs through Sunday!

Includes: moon phases and names, eclipses and solstices, zodiac signs, Chinese 5-Element seasons, meteor showers and more!

The Celestial Observation Calendar for 2026 gives you at-a-glance key astronomical phenomenon each month and is specifically designed as a template for you to add your own observations, drawings, notes and color to it throughout each month!

01/02/2025

Streamlining some creative things for 2025!

I am closing both my Zazzle and Etsy shops. Between AI in POD shops and the allowance on Etsy of items beyond just handmade goods, I am focusing on my own website: ccreechstudio.com

Please feel free to check there for updates. If you have any requests for commissions or handmade gifts, feel free to send me a PM!

www.ccreechstudio.com

11/18/2024

Recent fun! I have been playing around with some acrylic paint leaf prints this fall. Love how they capture the texture and detail. I want to add some ink work to these as well.

And some traditional botanical sketching at a meet-up with another artist friend this weekend. Cotton plant seed pods are really fascinating!

11/10/2024

I have deleted my Twitter (X) account. I am active on both BlueSky and Threads if you are looking to follow on other platforms.

09/20/2024

Prairie Coneflower (Ratibida pinnata) is done! Tall with drooping, but cheerful bright yellow rays, it blooms in late summer.

09/15/2024

Ink is done on the Prairie Coneflower! Looking forward to getting that yellow on the blossoms soon…

09/12/2024

Great Blue Lobelia or Blue Cardinal Flower (Lobelia siphilitica) blooms in late summer to early fall. The bees love it!

09/02/2024

Sorting out the composition for the Great Blue Lobelia. Sometimes it requires a copier to resize sketches to the right proportion. It is coming together!

08/30/2024

The cardinal flower is finished! Lobelia cardinalis is native to North and South America and is found in wetlands, swamps and meadows. It blooms midsummer to early fall. This was done in ink and colored pencil on Strathmore smooth Bristol paper.

08/29/2024

Finished inking and am on to layering leaf color! I use Faber-Castell polychromos pencils and start with some light layers of yellow glaze and light green. I move on to modeling the shapes with some darker greens, adding deeper shadows with chrome green opaque. Since I am in leaf-mode, I will finish these before moving on to the flowers.

08/19/2024

Getting close to inking! The cardinal flower portrait is coming together nicely. But first, I am going to switch gears and start planning the next wildflower portrait, do some rough sketches, get it into my brain. I want to have another started so that when I get into finishing the first, I don’t have to start from scratch in the next one. Helps the momentum. Do you have a similar approach or do you prefer to go start to finish on one piece before planning another?

08/17/2024

Working on defining these beautiful cardinal flowers.