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« Previous EntriesXi Niu He, China
Tuesday, September 5th, 2023
Xi Niu He (Xi Niu River – Rhino’s Horn) in China, and Damselfly – 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper.
Bertha
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
Bertha, 9H x 12W inches soft pastels on paper. This one’s for my aunt, who I was speaking with about all the amazing things we see in our gardens. She gives names to all the insects or other creatures that hang around or return to her garden, like this large bumblebee.
Healthy Hive
Monday, May 18th, 2020
Magnolia blossom
Monday, May 19th, 2008
Magnolia trees require so much energy to bloom, when they do the older leaves die and drop to the ground, temporarily leaving a rather shabby-looking tree and leaves on everyone else’s yard too. Above: a honey bee checks out the other side of a flower, and next: a flower in transition.
Beauty and the beast
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
I couldn’t resist buying a deep-yellow Calla Lily at the local nursery, then while out pulling weeds and transplanting it, a large slow-moving beetle called for a portrait.
Frozen
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
1st image: a deteriorating moth captured in ice
Cool Cricket
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
One of the things I love about living in Texas is that we still hear crickets in the evening during November. This one is a survivor with one leg half there and part of one antennae missing. Those big eyes followed every movement.
Caterpillar Art
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
It’s still warm and sunny in Texas, and caterpillars are making art in the garden!
Water strider
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Polypore Fungi, 59H x 41W x 2D, acrylics on canvas, work in progress. Acrylics painting started in June, hung and studied in the loose-phase state; cautious about overworking it. Plans this week: most everything will stay out of focus, with details only on the fungi (starting that next), using a little modeling paste to sculpt the fungi.
Watching the water-striders in the pond in our back yard pond. Interesting that it is so weightless, yet with enough mass to be able to walk on water.
Damselflies
Saturday, August 11th, 2007
… just returned from Alberta, where this summer’s hot temperatures have maintained high numbers of dragonflies and damselflies. These ones will have offspring born in Airdrie, just outside of Calgary.