Forest x Friends

Forest x Friends Garden signs, stickers, shirts, tote bags, and more! Pollinators are my passion.

Based in Berkeley, CA, my designs often feature California native plants and pollinators. 💚

I’m also a landscape designer!

Grasshopper and Sunflower is the last prompt for and I’m so excited to have participated in all the prompts this year!...
05/28/2026

Grasshopper and Sunflower is the last prompt for and I’m so excited to have participated in all the prompts this year!

This illustration is of a California Sunflower and a Two-banded Grasshopper, both native here in California. 🌼

Thanks to the hosts for putting this challenge together! 💚🦋🪲🌼

HOSTS:
.nichole.illustration





Sticker drop! I’m so excited about all of these new and updated designs! Each features California native plants and/or p...
05/27/2026

Sticker drop! I’m so excited about all of these new and updated designs! Each features California native plants and/or pollinators (plus a mushroom friend). Gardeners, naturalists, sticker enthusiasts, I hope these designs inspire you to plant for pollinators!

Swipe to see the first sticker sheet I’m offering, which is all Bay Area native butterflies (and caterpillar). Included are: Monarch butterfly, Tiger Swallowtail butterfly, Anise Swallowtail butterfly, California Pipevine Swallowtail, Common Buckeye butterfly, Painted Lady butterfly, and a Monarch caterpillar sticker. 🦋

Also check out all the Monarch butterfly eggs on that Showy Milkweed! The real flex is that all of these plants are in my garden 💚

A new logo for 💚 Swipe to see the iterations and process of designing this new logo for Westbrae Nursery, who have supp...
05/23/2026

A new logo for 💚

Swipe to see the iterations and process of designing this new logo for Westbrae Nursery, who have supported my art and carried my stickers in their shop as soon as I worked up the nerve to ask!

Featuring Penstemons and an Anna’s Hummingbird, this logo celebrates pollinators and the plants that draw them into our gardens. 🌱

I’m so grateful for their trust and enthusiasm throughout this process!

I’m organizing an art market! I started earlier this year to connect with and support other artists in the Bay Area, an...
05/21/2026

I’m organizing an art market! I started earlier this year to connect with and support other artists in the Bay Area, and creating vending opportunities like this is just one way I’m making it happen! 💗

I’ll be vending along with fifteen (15?!) other local artists and makers on 6/26 at winery. Thanks to everyone vending at Berkeley Art Club’s first market, Donkey & Goat Winery for hosting, and YOU for marking your calendar and showing up to this Berkeley event! 💫

Enjoy natural wines, live music, delicious food, and local vendors for an evening of Bay Area magic! It’s from 5 - 9pm so you can pregame with us before Pride weekend events. 🌈😌

Swipe to see what I’m bringing to the market, along with the list of amazing vendors making this event magical on the last slide!

More info to come so follow to stay up to date!

1st photo by 💗

Happy World Bee Day! This is a Leafcutter Bee holding a little leaf in the shape of a heart 💚Bee-ing the Solution is all...
05/20/2026

Happy World Bee Day! This is a Leafcutter Bee holding a little leaf in the shape of a heart 💚

Bee-ing the Solution is all about individual and collective action to protect biodiversity and nature! Plant a garden of native plants to support these bees, even if it’s just a single flower in a pot. Native bees coevolved alongside native plants and even just a small difference creates a chain of habitats.🌼

I do have this illustration available as a sticker on my Etsy if you like it!

is my favorite art challenge! 💚This week’s prompt is beetle and cosmos, so I chose a Cobalt Milkweed Beetle which is f...
05/19/2026

is my favorite art challenge! 💚

This week’s prompt is beetle and cosmos, so I chose a Cobalt Milkweed Beetle which is found throughout western North America. Have you seen this beetle?! Metallic blue-green and magical.

I also just love Cosmos and drawing them is so fun. 🧡

Swipe to see the speedpaint of this illustration and this challenge’s final prompt which I’ll be posting next week!

Thanks to the hosts of this challenge for putting this together!

Hosts of Bugs in Bloom 2026:

.nichole.illustration





Preorders are available now on my Patreon! Link in my story highlight.I originally wanted to print these myself (and may...
05/16/2026

Preorders are available now on my Patreon! Link in my story highlight.

I originally wanted to print these myself (and may still do so once I learn how to screen print) but I also love to support local printers! I can’t do it all (yet) and that’s okay! I’m just excited about the design and want to personally wear one asap.

When you preorder this bandana, you’ll be added to a list and once I have $10 people I will get them screen printed by a lovely printer in Oakland, CA. 💚

This design features California Pipevine Swallowtails and caterpillars on Aristolochia (Dutchman’s Pipe). California Pipevine Swallowtails need this plant to complete the lifecycle as it’s the only thing their caterpillars eat. Plant native plants to support our amazing pollinators!

Moonflower & Firefly is the second prompt for and I was excited to learn that we have a CA native moonflower!Sacred Da...
05/12/2026

Moonflower & Firefly is the second prompt for and I was excited to learn that we have a CA native moonflower!

Sacred Datura (aka Moonflower aka Datura wrightii) is abundant in Southern California. This plant is a powerful hallucinogen used by indigenous peoples in ceremony.

I was also excited to draw the California Pink Glowworm (Microphotus angustus) which is one of 17 species of firefly found in California. Not many people know about them, but they are here!

Thanks again to the hosts for putting this challenge together! 🌙💫

HOSTS:
nichole.illustration





botanicalillustrations

Here’s my vending schedule so if you want to get some stickers, prints or garden signs, you know where to find me!This w...
05/07/2026

Here’s my vending schedule so if you want to get some stickers, prints or garden signs, you know where to find me!

This weekend is so busy and I’m so excited to share my art with more people! 🦋

Saturday I’ll be at:

💚 .market from 10 - 4pm in Oakland
💚 .home from 4 - 11pm in Berkeley

Sunday I’ll be at:
🩵 Mermaid-themed market from 12 - 5pm in Berkeley! 🧜‍♀️🌊

Lantana & Butterfly is the first prompt for and I’m excited to participate this year!CA doesn’t have any native Lantan...
05/05/2026

Lantana & Butterfly is the first prompt for and I’m excited to participate this year!

CA doesn’t have any native Lantanas (in fact they can be very invasive in some areas) but there are some very sweet Lantanas native to the South of us! Brushland Shrubverbena is one of those, native to Texas, Arizona & New Mexico. 💚

Monarch butterflies stop at these native Lantanas while they are migrating south, so if you are in an area where you can safely plant these you should! Pollinators love it when you plant native plants!

Thanks to the hosts for putting this challenge together! 💚🦋🪲🌼

HOSTS:
.nichole.illustration





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