Fish Gotta Swim, Bugs Gotta Fly

I’m going to miss them, but three of my original watercolor paintings in recent exhibits have found new homes. “Hawaiian Fishes All the Way Down” has happily swum off the …

leafy sea dragon by lucy arnold

Wings & Fins

“Wings and Fins” is what I’m calling my part of the upcoming two-person exhibit at Gallery One in Petaluma, as many of my paintings feature fish or butterflies.  My newest …

Art by the Inch Inches Along

My large (8’x4′) watercolor painting for the Marin MOCA Art by the Inch Fundraiser is coming along.  I still have quite a few weeks to work on it, though, so …

Invitational Exhibit at Gallery One

I am one of the artists invited to show at Gallery One’s 25th Anniversary exhibit.  I plan to show Bits of Flight and Leafy Sea Dragon.  The exhibit is from September …

Art by the Inch continues…

Here is the next phase of the large piece I’m doing for the Marin MOCA fundraiser, Art by the Inch. A few hummingbirds and a motmot are joining the butterflies. …

Insects Only

I currently have a solo exhibit of “Insects Only” at the Marinwood Community Center in San Rafael.  This is one of Marin MOCA’s satellite exhibit venues.  Since there will be …

Blue Clipper Butterfly

I love the newest butterfly! This is the Blue Clipper, or Parthenos sylvia. I’ll write more about him later. Just wanted to post an image of the painting, which I …

Gaudy Commodore

The second butterfly in the new series is Precis octavia, or Gaudy Commodore. This African butterfly exhibits two very different color forms – red and black in summer and blue, …

Flights of Fancy

I created a new digital art piece this winter. I used images from both my photos and my watercolor paintings, which was a first for me. A few of the …

Bordered Butterfly card set 6

Here are the cards of Bordered Butterfly set 6. The caterpillars are included with the identification on the back of these cards.

Bordered Butterfly card sets

I’ve arranged most of the new bordered butterfly (and moth) cards into sets of four. Four cards just barely squeeze into a single clear sleeve, along with a slip of …

New Butterfly Notecards

I ceated a new line of butterfly and moth notecards to give as Christmas gifts this year. They all have decorative marbled borders to match. There are 29 different designs, …

New Art Books

The third version of the art books is similarly titled. It’s “A Little Book of Metamorphosis”, subtitled “Five Caterpillars, Four Moths, One Butterfly”. I found some gorgeous handmade marbled paper …

New Art Books

I’ve been working on some new versions of art books using the moth, butterfly, and caterpillar images. They are all variations on “Little Book of Metamorphosis”.The first one, also shown …

Caterpillar book, Step 6

The latest installment for of the caterpillar and moth for “The Little Book of Metamorphosis” is now completed. The caterpillar of Citheronia regalis is known as the Hickory Horned Devil. …

Caterpillar Book, step 5

This next moth is my favorite so far. It’s Acherontia atropos, the Death’s Head Hawkmoth. Actually, the Death’s Head Hawkmoth refers to any one of these three species of moth: …