Mushroom illustration – toadstool illustration – fungi

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mushroom illustration - chris madden

A drawing of a mushroom
Fungus illustration
Toadstool sketch

A drawing of a toadstool, mushroom or similar fungus, inspired by a walk in the park in autumn

The fungus in this drawing is a purely impressionistic one, made up on my sketch pad in my studio. It is meant to give the feel for the fungus rather than being a scientific representation of one

A drawing about autumn, fungi, mushrooms, toadstools.
A digital painting of fungus.

Cartoon reference number: a400

Fruit growing cartoon – pear tree producing gluts of fruit in the autumn

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pear tree fruit glut cartoon

Fruit gardening cartoon – a glut of fruit on a pear tree

Cartoon about the problem of gluts of seasonal food or the over abundance of seasonal crops

The gardener complaining that all of the fruit on a fruit tree arrives at once.

A cartoon about fruit gardening, vegetable gardens, harvesting fruit, pear trees, garden fruit, allotment gardening, autumn gardens, fall gardening, fruit picking.

Cartoon reference number: a279
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Autumn garden cartoon – Indian summer gardening

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Gardening cartoon – autumn heatwave cartoon

Cartoon showing a man raking autumn leaves on a very hot autumn day after a cold and miserable summer.

The gardener is saying “This is the first time this year that it’s been hot enough to garden in shorts.”

A cartoon about unseasonable weather, Indian summers (spells of very warm weather in autumn or fall).

Cartoon reference number: a275
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Autumn leaves blowing off a garden tree – into a neighbour’s garden

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Cartoon showing autumn leaves blowing off a garden tree – into a neighbour’s garden

Cartoon showing a gardener saying “Always plant trees so that the prevailing wind blows the autumn leaves next door”

A cartoon about the importance of planting a garden taking into account the direction of the prevailing wind

As well as the direction of the prevailing wind the gardener needs to take into account other aspects of the orientation of the garden, such as the direction in which it is facing in relation to the sun.

Cartoon reference number: a244
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Gardening cartoon. Burning autumn leaves

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Burning autumn leaves - cartoon

Seasonal gardening cartoon – burning autumn leaves

Cartoon about tidying the garden in autumn

Cartoon showing a gardener burning autumn leaves

The gardener is making a bonfire out of the autumn leaves that have fallen onto his garden during fall.
The burning leaves are making a lot of smoke, which is drifting across into a neighbour’s garden where it is making the clothes that are drying on the washing line dirty. The neighbour is putting the fire out by pouring water onto it. (Pouring water onto the fire may actually be making the leaves damp and thus more smokey, which in turn creates a possible further point to the cartoon, even though it’s an inadvertent one).

Cartoon reference number: a242
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Gardening calendar cartoon – planting bulbs at the autumn equinox to flower at the spring equinox

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Autumn equinox - gardening cartoon

Seasonal gardening cartoon – planting in the autumn ready for the spring

Cartoon about the first signs of autumn in the garden

Cartoon showing a gardener consulting his garden calendar

The gardener in his garden shed thinking “It’s the autumn equinox – time to plant bulbs ready for the spring equinox!”
A cartoon about the gardener’s year, the fall equinox, the vernal equinox, seasons in the garden, when to plant bulbs.

Cartoon reference number: a241
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Gardening cartoon – the arrival of autumn comes too soon

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Cartoon - the arrival of autumn

Gardening cartoon – the arrival of autumn

Cartoon about the first signs of autumn in the garden

Cartoon showing a man about to relax in his garden.
He is noticing the first autumn leaf falling to the ground

The man is thinking “I slave away all summer getting the garden just right to relax in – then suddenly autumn arrives!”
A cautionary cartoon about the dangers of working too hard towards a goal without taking the time to appreciate things around you while you’re doing it. In other words – don’t focus on your work to the exclusion of everything else – take time to smell the roses.
A cartoon about the passing of time, life-work balance, fall gardening, summer gardening, relaxing in the garden.

Cartoon reference number: a240
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Gardening humour. Using a leaf blower to blow leaves into neighbour’s garden

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Autumn gardening cartoon. Using a leaf blower to blow leaves into neighbour’s garden

A comic illustration showing a gardener using a power leave blower to blow the autumn leaves off a tree – making them land in the next door neighbor’s garden.

A cartoon about autumn gardens, fall gardening, nasty neighbors, antisocial neighbours, tidy gardens.

Drawn: Nov 2010

Cartoon reference number: a210

Autumn gardening cartoon – gluing fallen autumn leaves back onto a tree

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autumn leaves cartoon

Autumn gardening cartoon

Autumn or fall gardening cartoon – gluing the fallen autumn leaves back onto a tree.

The leaves are being stuck back onto the branches of the tree with glue so that the branches aren’t bare during the winter and so that the trees can provide some winter colour in the garden.
The man in the cartoon is saying “I’m gluing the fallen leaves back on so that we get autumn colour right through the winter.”

Cartoon reference number: a163
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Fruit Gardening Cartoon – modern children are no longer interested in stealing apples

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scrumping apples cartoon

Gardening cartoon

Fruit Gardening Cartoon – children are no longer interested in scrumping (stealing apples)

Cartoon showing children walking under an apple tree laden with apples, and not being interested in picking any of them because they are too engrossed in modern technological devices such as cell phones or other hand held electronic devices.

Cartoon reference number: a161
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Pesticide cartoons: how pesticides can increase apple yield

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Cartoon - pesticide increases apple crop yield

From my selection of environment cartoons
Pesticide cartoons
How pesticide increases apple crop yield

A cartoon about using toxic agricultural chemicals for pest control

In this cartoon the pests being controlled are generally young children who steal the fruit from the trees.
Crop yield is increased by deterring people from stealing the apples off the tree (scrumping).
The cartoon is partly inspired by the book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Cartoon reference number: env117
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