Small Joys: 100 Days of Flowers
Hello,
I'm Malaika Ross, a botanical artist painting daily through a 100-day practice.
This summer I'm beginning a new body of work: a small botanical painting every day for 100 days, in colors chosen to feel like warmth and repair. Each piece is made in about an hour, built from ink, acrylic and whatever is blooming that day.
I started this practice to keep painting on new terms after breast cancer surgery left me with neuropathy in my fingers and it's become one of the small joys of my day. A quiet hour with color, texture and whatever the garden hands me next.
Begin your botanical observation practice with a printable art print and a seasonal Field Note from my studio.
Title: Day 50: shreber's wood aster (2026) Dimensions: 4 x 6 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic in sketchbook.
Title: Day 49: daylily (2026) Dimensions: 4 x 6 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic in sketchbook.
Title: Day 48: hydrangea (2026) Dimensions: 4 x 6 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic in sketchbook.
Title: Day 47: beebalm (2026) Dimensions: 4 x 6 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic in sketchbook.
Title: Day 46: dark mullein (2026) Dimensions: 4 x 6 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic in sketchbook.
Title: Day 45: rabbit-foot clover (2026) Dimensions: 4 x 6 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic in sketchbook.
Title: Day 44: spirea (2026) Dimensions: 4 x 6 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic in sketchbook.
Title: Day 43: purple-flowering raspberry, beebalm and daylily (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 42: fleabane, smartweed, crown vetch and creeping bellflower (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 41: white campion, pokeweed, smart weed, jewelweed and fringed loosestrife (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 40: pepperweed, rocket, rabbitfoot clover and cosmos (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 39: fringed loosestrife, wild basil and fleabane (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 38: sulphur cinquefoil, fleabane, maiden-pink, bush honeysuckle and cilantro (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 37: sweet pea and purple vetch (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 36: st. john's wort and spirea (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 35: wallflower, dame's rocket and sulphur cinquefoil (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 34: purple crownvetch, rudbeckia, bird's foot trefoil and purple-flowering raspberry pistil and sepal (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 33: sulphur cinquefoil, cilantro and dame's rocket (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 32: mock orange, hydrangea and purple-flowering raspberry (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 31: crown vetch and mock orange (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 30: bleeding heart, rhubarb seeds, weigela florida and mock orange (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 29: daisies (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 28: wallflower, bush honeysuckle, red maple seed and dandelion (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 27: mountain laurel (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 26: white campion, vetch and pansy. (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 25: iris and bush honeysuckle (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 24: chives, comfrey, buttercup and fox-and-cubs (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 23: crabapple (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 22: buttercups, red clover, fox-and-cubs and maiden pink. (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 21: fox-and-cubs (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 20: buttercup (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 19: comfrey (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 18: maiden-pink (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 17: red columbine. (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 16: mountain laurel (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 15: eastern waterleaf. (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 14: red clover. (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 13: weigela florida ‘Alexandra’. (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 12: brambles. (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 11: mesopotamian Iris. (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 10: ragged-robin. (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 9: wallflowers. (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 8: rhododendron. (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 7: rhododendron. (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink and acrylic on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 6: dogwood, violet, flowering bluet and woodsorrel. (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Gouache, ink, acrylic marker and gel pen on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 5: bleeding heart, lily of the valley and hyacinth. (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Ink, acrylic marker and gel pen on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 4: ground ivy, celandine and hesperis matronalis. (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Acrylic marker and gel pen on acid-free paper.
Title: Day 3: lilac, aster, buttercup and ground ivy. (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Acrylic marker, ink and gel pen on acid-free paper
Title: Day 2: dandelion, buttercup, grass and allieae. (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Acrylic marker and gel pen on acid-free paper
Title: Day 1: spiderwort, celandine, iris and bluebell (2026) Dimensions: 5 x 7 in. Medium: Acrylic marker, black ink and gel pen on acid-free paper
