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Toxic Tango III: Cone Shells

Toxic Tango III: Cone Shells 24×24 watercolor I just completed the third painting in the Toxic Tango series! This one is Toxic Tango III: Cone Shells. Yes, these innocent looking …

“Toxic Tango II: Peacock Spiders”

I’ve just completed the second watercolor painting of the new “Toxic Tango” series.  The first one was “Toxic Tango I: Sea Slugs”, and this one is “Toxic Tango II: Peacock …

Numbered ID chart for Kona Crowd

Here is a numbered ID chart for my new watercolor painting, “Kona Crowd”.  It’s pretty confusing, since so many fish overlap.  Also, there are lots of duplicates, and I’ve tried …

These are the “Bits of Paradise” vertical format greeting card designs I’ve created using detail sections of “Tropical Paradise”, a watercolor painting that is 8ft x 4 ft.  If anyone …

Bits of Paradise card #1 Bits of Paradise card #2 Bits of Paradise card #3 Bits of Paradise card #4 Bits of Paradise card #5 Bits of Paradise card #6 …

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 …

Art By The Inch – A Beginning

Marin Museum of Contemporary Art (MarinMOCA) in Novato holds an annual fundraiser called “Art by the Inch”.It’s a terrific concept!  Several artist members of the museum paint very large works …

Members’ Exhibit at MarinMOCA

My watercolor painting, “Hawaiian Fishes All the Way Down”, is in the Members Exhibition at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art.  I was delighted to see that this work was …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

Kauai

The list of sea creatures I was able to identify during our recent trip to Kauai contains 84 species. However, many of the male/female and juvenile/adult versions of the fish …

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. …