The Mushrooms Made Me Do It 🍄

Little Spirits Hiding in Plain Sight ✨

Zoom in close enough on anything in nature and you’ll find flirtatious little deviant spirits at play. Right there under our noses, small enough to miss if we’re not paying attention. Mushrooms in particular have a secret life. Naturally, I had to investigate and show you what I found.✨

The Sacrament • Tastycake

These are miniatures, all painted in one session. I started with no plan, just blobs of color. Let them dry, added more, let them dry again. The mushrooms found their shapes first, then the little characters showed up. I never knew what I was going to get and that was the best part.

Spore Dream • Trumpet

Reishi Throne

By the way, I've been posting daily artworks over on Substack. See what you’ve missed.

Funstack • The Fruiting

Bootius Magnificus V. Plumpus

These were part of Game of Shrooms, a worldwide scavenger hunt where artists hide original work for strangers to find. I’ve sent paintings out into the wild for several years now.

More from this series coming soon. You can also find these little spirits in my Flirty Fungi sticker collection. 🍄