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 …
Artwork Featured at Marin MOCA Gift Store
My work is featured on the main wall of the Marin Museum Of Contemporary Art Gift Store for the months of March and April. I always have a selection of …
Sophisticated Ladies
I’ve enjoyed putting together a selection of the Bordered Butterfly cards that I call the “Sophisticated Ladies”. There are 33 total Bordered Butterfly cards so far, but these are some …
New Butterflies Coming
I’ve had so much fun finding various ways to use those four moths and one butterfly from the series I painted for the the “Little Book of Metamorphosis” handmade art …
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 …
framed individual moths & butterfly
I have framed five of the moth/butterfly watercolors that I painted for “The Little Book of Metamorphosis” – which is still just a possibility for a handmade book, not a …
Four Moths, One Butterfly, and their Caterpillars
“Four Moths, One Butterfly and their Caterpillars” is what I’m calling my newest project using the moth, butterfly and caterpillar images I’ve had in mind for a Little Book of …
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: …
Caterpillar Book, step 3
The third caterpillar/butterfly combination is Marpesia petreus, the Ruddy Daggerwing. I find the small similarities between the caterpillar and butterfly forms of the species fascinating.
Caterpillar book, step 2
The next moth that I’ve painted is the Euchaetes egle, or Milkweed Tussock Moth. It is a very simple, humble looking thing. The wings are very plain, and only the …
New Project
I am thinking of creating another handmade art book. My idea is to have it structured like “Dualities”, the book I made for the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art fundraiser. …