Jill Bliss knows a thing or two about turning life’s lemons into lemonade: The Portland-based artist finds much of the inspiration for her nature drawings from an accidental tide pool dunk as a toddler. After stumbling into a Pacific seawater pool, Bliss found being submerged to be more fascinating than frightening. Combining the memory of that young swim with frequent nature walks, Bliss produces colorful, meticulously accurate drawings of the West Coast’s native plant and animal life on her line of paper wares. Along with prints of her work, Bliss offers up paper and fabric goods expertly adorned with her charming drawings, like the Sea Flowers Eco Journal, a thick 224-page notebook with pages anchored by swaying sea anemones. Her inky, fetching drawings may look whimsical, but know this: they are the products of serious research. Bliss is a major devotee of nature guidebooks and is just as interested in the correct names of her subjects as she is in the number of whiskers on her sweet sealion renderings.