12×12 acrylic on stretched canvas I used a bottle bottom pour to achieve the effect I wanted for this piece. The colors reminded me of candy, and a kiss just …
Wild, Wild Flower
12×12 acrylic on stretched canvas This crazy, psychedelic flower is a poured acrylic painting. The technique I used is called a bottle bottom pour, as the colors are actually poured …
Dark Star
12×12 acrylic on stretched canvas Dark Star was created using a radial swipe method with poured acrylics. Click here to view the original in my Shop.
Toxic Tango IV: Fateful Flowers
Beautiful, toxic flowers abound in the plant kingdom. Many are very familiar garden varieties that many folks would never suspect as being dangerous. They appear in bouquets in our homes, …
Beauty Beyond the Net
21×25 watercolor The Madagascar Sunset Moths, one of my very favorite insects, is featured in this watercolor painting. It’s the one toward the right. Looks like there’s a sunset in …
Charaxes Butterfly
13×19 watercolor 19×25 framed The intricately patterned Charaxes butterfly, also known as the Two-tailed Pasha, is a stunning harmony of warm yellow to red hues plus black and cool greys. …
Spanish Moon Moth
13×19 watercolor 19×25 framed The Spanish Moon Moth, Graellsia isabellae, has an ethereal beauty. Her graceful pale green wings are patterned with black and maroon. Eyespots adorn both top and bottom wings. My watercolor is …
Common Pink Forester Butterfly
13×19 watercolor 19×25 framed I couldn’t resist painting this gorgeous creature. The Common Pink Forester, Euphaedra xypete, is an African butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. This watercolor shows the underside of the wings, …
Festive Flock
30×22 watercolor; 40×30 framed I chose forty-two of the most colorful birds in the world for this painting. Of course, there are a great many more than that, so I had to …
Beautiful Beetles
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Amazon Insects
24×24 watercolor; 32×32 framed In 2006, I journeyed into the heart of the Amazon jungle with my father and sister, both scientists. My own background is biology as well as …
Butterflies, Moths, Caterpillars
24×24 watercolor; 32×32 framed Butterflies (and moths) are a recurring theme in my artwork. I don’t fight it. I had never before, however, painted caterpillars. I liked the idea of …
Moths & More Moths
24×24 watercolor; 32×32 framed Moths are usually assumed to be the dull, drab cousins of butterflies, the well-known beauties of the natural world. Nothing could be farther from the truth! There are …
Toxic Tango III: Cone Shells
24×24 watercolor; 32×32 framed Toxic Tango Series You would hardly expect these lovely shells would house venomous creatures, but they all do! Cone shells themselves are harmless once they are …
Toxic Tango I: Sea Slugs
24×24 watercolor; 32×32 framed These are all real sea slug species, unbelievable as they appear. It is the first painting of the “Toxic Tango” series. My intention is to depict …
Toxic Tango II: Peacock Spiders
24×24 watercolor; 32×32 framed Toxic Tango Series All spiders are venemous to some degree, so any would qualify for the Toxic Tango Series. But colorful peacock spiders are also amazing! …
Basilisk, Orchids, Frogs
22×30 watercolor; 30×34 framed This painting was inspired by a very regal looking plumed (or green) Basilisk lizard I saw at the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. His profile was quite …
Friends of the Eel River
30×22 watercolor; 37×29 framed This painting was created to support the environmental organization, Friends of the Eel River. It was reproduced on T-shirts, prints and cards, then published in The Eelriver Reporter, …
Leafy Sea Dragon
28×22 watercolor; 34.5 x 38.5 framed The Leafy Sea Dragon, Phycodurus eques, is a relative of the Seahorse, as you might suspect. This marvelous sea creature is found off Australia’s south and …
Kona Crowd
22×30 watercolor; 30.5×38 framed Skin diving is my favorite travel sport. It makes me feel like I’m flying over a very beautiful, alien world. (I don’t use an air tank, just …