Toxic Tango I: Sea Slugs:

A new watercolor series is underway! This one features beautiful, colorful creatures that also happen to be toxic, and the series name is “Toxic Tango”. Sounds like fun, right? The …

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, …

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 …

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.

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 …

Award for Fishes

All the fishes in “Hawaiian Fishes All the Way Down” are very excited. They were just awarded an Honorable Mention in the “All Creatures” juried show at Marin Society 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: …