Stone witches : from a silly doodle to a series of more than 30 drawings and counting

Have you ever wonder where stone witches came from ? Or what are the plane for the future ? This post is for you !Stone witches is my personal illustration project where I explore ways to symbolically represent stones and their properties. It is also an opportunity for me, as a geologist, to share my knowledge of rocks and minerals. For each piece of art, I complement my existing knowledge with additional investigation and attempt to highlight interesting facts about the stones. In the end, each piece of art comes with some scientific vulgarization, briefly introducing each stone. You can discover all of their art on my website.From initial doodle to first artEverything started with a doodle one day, just a silly idea : a small family all composed of stones, based on a well known stone evolution family in geology : basalt formed at the oceanic mid-range that progressively turn in green-schist due to water alteration, before going deeper at subduction trench (where on plate goes under…