Soldiering On, colored pencil and watercolor on paper by Christiane Fashek

Christiane Fashek is an award winning botanical artist whose work is focused on lichens. She prefers colored pencil with touches of watercolor to create her extraordinarily detailed work, which requires the use of macrophotography, magnification, underpainting, proportional scaling and a lot of patience to accurately capture her specimens. She has shown her work, taught and lectured at the New York Botanical Garden and elsewhere. www.christianefashekbotanicalart.com.