Camille Doucet

When I was 3 years old I broke my right arm. On the next day I picked up a crayon with my left hand and continued scribbling on the kitchen walls just as before. I am left handed since then, however I have moved my drawing area to an horizontal surface for the love of watercolor. The subjects that make my cells move into the joyful creative mode are from nature; birds, plants, trees, landscapes. Commissions have made me branch out in new directions, for example drawing people of different nations for the Family Empowerment department of the Cornell Cooperative Extension, or backyart environments for a book by the Audubon society.

In 2002 I went to a week-long conference of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (GNSI) in Virginia and came back juiced up, excited and marveling at the generous bunch of nature and art lovers I met there. I came back home wondering how I could be part of such a nurturing and prolific group here. A few months later I found such a group of nature artists assembled at the home of late and beloved botanical artist and teacher Bente King. Right there and then I gathered phone numbers of those similarly interested. The following January we started officially meeting as a local chapter of the guild. We have been painting our love and concerns for the environment since. Last year we hosted the yearly GNSI conference here in Ithaca. Today we are working on an exhibit of “common declining birds of the US” using the Laboratory of Ornithology’s bird specimens resources. I meet weekly with other artists to paint and network. Laurel Hecht, Shirley Hogg and others are my steadfast companions in this adventure of active art-making.

Teaching is another of my creative endeavors. I see every student as a peer looking to progress in the acquisition of artistic skills, in the refinement of perception and in deepening the satisfaction of creating. I enjoy varying the classes by interspersing technique skills like color theory and botanical illustration with relaxed sketching in poetic environments like the greenhouses of Cornell in the deep of the winter and landscape painting in the botanical garden and local parks.

When I met Steve Sierigk (and later his wonderful wife Anne) many years ago I was inspired by his focused desire to help educate people about the environment and the high ethics of his business towards artists, employees, products and the environment. It is my honor to be counted in the wonderful pool of artists that grace the catalogues, cards and notebooks that Acorn Design produces. Long live Acorn Designs and our beautiful planet.

Products by Camille Doucet

The following products include artwork and/or writing by Camille Doucet. Most products are a collaboration of the wonderful artists and writers who have contributed to Acorn Designs over the years.

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Ancient Spirit Large Journal in Black for Acorn Designs copy 1 scaled

Ancient Spirit Journal

$29.00

Ancient Spirit Logging practices over the past few hundred years have changed the nature of our forests. The species variety and the age range of our trees have both become more homogeneous. Some trees valued for their lumber have been harvested faster than their ability to regenerate. Others, partly due to their low market value,…

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Ancient Spirit Mini Journal

$8.50

Logging practices over the past few hundred years have changed the nature of our forests. The species variety and the age range of our trees have both become more homogeneous. Some trees valued for their lumber have been harvested faster than their ability to regenerate. Others, partly due to their low market value, have increased.…

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Autumn Leaves Mini Journal

$8.50

As days shorten and temperatures become crisp, the quiet green of summer foliage is transformed into the vivid autumn palette of red, orange, gold and brown before the leaves fall off the broadleaf trees. Sometimes these colors are breathtaking. As nights grow longer and cooler, a biochemical process in the leaf begins to paint the…

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Black Locust Large Journal in Birch for Acorn Designs scaled

Black Locust Journal

$29.00

Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) This large member of the pea family has spreading, ferny foliage and in late spring produces pendant spikes of fragrant blossoms from which honeybees make a delightful honey. This fast-growing tree can each 80 feet or more, occasionally growing to 120 feet, the trunk being 3-4 feet thick. Its bark matures…

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Black Locust Lokta Card

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This large member of the pea family has spreading, ferny foliage and in late spring produces pendant spikes of fragrant blossoms from which honeybees make a delightful honey. This fast-growing tree can each 80 feet or more, occasionally growing to 120 feet, the trunk being 3-4 feet thick. Its bark matures to a dark, dull…

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Black Locust Notecard

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Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) This large member of the pea family has spreading, ferny foliage and in late spring produces pendant spikes of fragrant blossoms from which honeybees make a delightful honey. This fast-growing tree can each 80 feet or more, occasionally growing to 120 feet, the trunk being 3-4 feet thick. Its bark matures…

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Black Locust Tree artwork on a Small Journal in Birch for Acorn Designs

Black Locust Small Journal

$20.00

The black locust tree is presently naturalized over most of the eastern United States, occurring in some western states into British Columbia, and also has been imported throughout Europe. This large member of the pea family has spreading, ferny foliage, and in late spring produces pendant spikes of honey-sweet blossoms. Pioneers early learned the high…

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Bristlecone Pine Large Journal in Black for Acorn Designs copy scaled

Bristlecone Pine Journal

$29.00

Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) On the arid, windswept mountaintops of the Great Basin in the western U.S. grows earth’s oldest living inhabitant, the bristlecone pine. The bristlecone pine, named for the long hooked spike on the seeds of the cones, has adjusted to places that no other tree can inhabit, and in these harsh environments…

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Bristlecone Pine Lokta Card

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On the arid, windswept mountaintops of the Great Basin in the western U.S. grows earth’s oldest living inhabitant, the bristlecone pine. The bristlecone pine, named for the long hooked spike on the seeds of the cones, has adjusted to places that no other tree can inhabit, and in these harsh environments has flourished. The oldest…

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Bristlecone Pine Notecard

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Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) On the arid, windswept mountaintops of the Great Basin in the western U.S. grows earth’s oldest living inhabitant, the bristlecone pine. The bristlecone pine, named for the long hooked spike on the seeds of the cones, has adjusted to places that no other tree can inhabit, and in these harsh environments…

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Bristlecone Pine Small Journal

$20.00

On the arid, windswept mountaintops of the Great Basin in the western U.S. grows earth’s oldest living inhabitant, the bristlecone pine. The bristlecone pine, named for the long hooked spike on the seeds of the cones, has adjusted to places that no other tree can inhabit, and in these harsh environments has flourished. The oldest…

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Clover Large Journal in Oatmeal for Acorn Designs scaled

Clover Journal

$29.00

Clover Clover’s curl of leaf cradles beaded shimmers, catching sky and casting glimmers for faeries to travel by. And still a deeper magic stirs beneath the soil, where clover transforms the breath of sky to food for soil and plant life. Among roots stretching wide and deep, fat nodules cradle nitrogen captured from the wind…

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Clover Notecard

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Clover Clover’s curl of leaf cradles beaded shimmers, catching sky and casting glimmers for faeries to travel by. And still a deeper magic stirs beneath the soil, where clover transforms the breath of sky to food for soil and plant life. Among roots stretching wide and deep, fat nodules cradle nitrogen captured from the wind…

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Giant Sequoia Mini Journal

$8.50

Giant Sequoia Sequoiadendron giganteum   It is innately human to experience an inner sense of stirring when finding oneself in the company of giant sequoias. The magnitude of a giant sequoia is palpable as one’s sense of self is suddenly shrunken by their vastness. Many giant sequoias are 20 to 26 feet in diameter and…

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Giant Sequoia Note Card

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Giant Sequoia Sequoiadendron giganteum   It is innately human to experience an inner sense of stirring when finding oneself in the company of  giant sequoias.  The magnitude of a giant sequoia is palpable as one’s sense of self is suddenly shrunken by their vastness.  Many giant sequoias are 20 to 26 feet in diameter and…

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Immortality Notecard

Immortality Journal

$29.00

Immortality This hemlock stump standing 12 to 15 feet tall displays the array of life forms that find nurturance in its last transformation. Large rotting stumps are important components for healthy ecosystem interactions. Birch trees, ferns, mosses, fungi, beetles, birds, salamanders and countless insects and organisms gather in the rotting wood to start new generations…

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