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Hexen Herbs
A series of hand-illustrated art prints conceived as poison plant seed packets for witches. Each illustration features a toxic botanical and its small, unsuspecting keeper.
A series of hand-illustrated art prints conceived as poison plant seed packets for witches. Each illustration features a toxic botanical and its small, unsuspecting keeper.
A self-initiated illustration project developed in 2024, conceived as a fictional product line: seed packets from a witch's apothecary, each dedicated to a different poisonous plant.
The five illustrations — Deadly Nightshade, Lily-of-the-Valley, Oleander, Jimson Weed, and White Snakeroot — were produced as art prints and sold at fairs.
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Each print takes the form of a Victorian seed packet — ornate framed borders, hand-lettered typography, the plant's common and Latin names, and a skull-and-crossbones emblem marking its toxicity.
At the center of each, a small witch figure tends to her oversized plant with quiet domesticity, as if poisonous gardening were perfectly ordinary.
The palette shifts per plant, giving each print a distinct colour identity while keeping the series cohesive. The overall aesthetic draws on Victorian botanical print culture: dense, decorative, and faintly ominous.
Each illustration was developed through pencil roughs before being executed entirely by hand in gouache and colored pencil. The finished works were scanned, printed as art prints, and sold at illustration fairs.
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