Botanical Watercolor Illustrations
Back when I first shared the plant illustrations I had been quietly working on for an upcoming tabletop game, the project was still in development and crowdfunding was on the horizon. I mentioned to watch this space — and now here we are with some very exciting news to share.
FloraVista, the charming botanical garden card game created by Far Out Fox, launched on Kickstarter on June 2, 2026. It hit its $10,000 funding goal in 45 minutes. By the time the campaign closed, 476 backers had pledged over $41,000 in support of this beautiful game. It was a remarkable response to a project that has been a labor of love for everyone involved — and I couldn’t be more thrilled for the team.
The game is still accepting late pledges on Kickstarter, so if you haven’t backed it yet, there’s still time to get in.
About FloraVista
FloraVista is a cozy, strategy-driven card game in which players curate their own botanical garden using 120 beautifully illustrated plants from around the world. It’s a game built entirely around the wonder of the plant kingdom — which makes the illustration work at the heart of it all the more meaningful. Every card is a small piece of art, and the gameplay gives players a reason to study and appreciate each one.
The Post-Launch Illustrations: Batch One
With the Kickstarter campaign successfully funded, the work continues — and this post marks the first batch of illustrations completed after the campaign launch. Each one follows the same approach established in the earlier batch: watercolor illustrations that pair a full rendering of the plant with smaller detail insets showcasing something unique or botanically significant about that species.
Here’s a look at what’s in this batch:
Cardoon — A dramatic thistle-family plant with striking purple blooms and deeply lobed silvery-green leaves. The illustration captures the plant’s architectural presence alongside its distinctive seeds.
Mandarin Orange — A lush composition featuring the full tree in miniature alongside a detailed branch study showing the blossoms, fruit on the branch, and a cross-section of the fruit revealing its vivid interior.
Rose of Sharon — a perfectly rounded flowering shrub covered in delicate pink blooms, and a single mallow stem with a bold, open magenta flower and lush foliage.
Silver Birch — One of the batch’s most serene illustrations, featuring a full birch tree in summer leaf alongside a branch with catkins and a grouping of the tree’s distinctive seeds. The pale bark is rendered with quiet precision.
Soaptree Yucca — A tall, dramatic plant native to the American Southwest, captured in full with its towering cream-colored flower spike, spiky basal rosette, and dried seed pod and seeds shown as detail insets.
A Project Worth Celebrating
Seeing FloraVista go from a quiet development project to a fully funded, enthusiastically backed game in the span of 45 minutes was genuinely wonderful. This is the kind of project that reminds me why illustration work is so meaningful — these paintings will live on game cards that land on tables around the world, in the hands of players who love plants and beautiful art.
More batches are on the way as the game moves toward production. Stay tuned, and in the meantime, go back this game! 🌿
