Wings of the World by Lucy Arnold

Butterfly Wings of the World

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cone shells

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 …

peacock spiders watercolor by Lucy Arnold

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! …

Troical plants and animals in Tropical Pardise watercolor by Lucy Arnold

Tropical Paradise

4’x8′ watercolor Tropical Paradise is the largest painting I’ve ever done. It’s 4 feet wide by 8 feet long, and filled with tropical plants, birds and butterflies. It was done …

Basilisk, Orchids, Poison Dart Frogs and more

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 by Lucy Arnold

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, …

Flora's Holiday by Lucy Arnold

Flora’s Holiday

Digital Art Flora’s Holiday, a surreal landscape, features bits and pieces of photos I took while traveling in Italy with my husband in 2013. All the flowers, however, are from …

dragon fantasy digital art by Lucy Arnold

Medusa’s Realm at Sunset

Digital Art Medusa’s Realm at Sunset is a digitally-created dragon fantasy landscape. It is composed of innumerable bits of my travel photos plus watercolor butterfly paintings, and each individual element is digitally …

Leafy Sea Dragon by Lucy Arnold

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 …

tropical fish of Kona

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 …

Hawaiian Fish by Lucy Arnold

Hawaiian Fishes All The Way Down

22×30 watercolor Hawaiian Fishes, as the title implies, depicts only fishes that can be found in Hawaiian waters. This choice gave me some parameters as I decided which fish to …

Dragonets by Lucy Arnold

Dragonets

30×22 watercolor Dragonets, such as these mandarin fish, are wildly, vividly patterned with colorful stripes and spots when seen up close. These extremely beautiful little fish are found in warm, tropical waters …

Paradise of tropical butterflies & flowers

Paradise

22×30 watercolor Wings Series Paradise differs from all the other paintings in the Wings Series in that it has both flowers and butterflies. They are all real species, and the …

Bits of Flight by Lucy Arnold

Bits of Flight

30×22 watercolor This painting was inspired by feathers and butterfly wings that I found while hiking on Marin trails. I already had a peacock and blue macaw feather, so all the …

Worlds Within

22×30 mixed watermedia The technique used to paint this piece is the same as for my other mixed media abstracts, but there was a different intent. It was actually meant to …

In Darkness Revealed

22×30 mixed water media This piece is a cosmic abstract painting, but is not based on any photographs or other images. The source is internal.  The subject matter is energy, dimensions, multiple …

Intersections

22×30 mixed watermedia My abstract pieces may appear to be either microcosm or cosmic macrocosm, but each has an internal rather than an objective source.  The subject matter is energy, dimensions and multiple …

Interlacing Light

22×30 mixed watermedia My abstract pieces may appear to be either microcosm or cosmic macrocosm, but each has an internal rather than an objective source.  The subject matter is energy, dimensions and multiple …

Spheres

22×30 mixed watemedia This piece is a cosmic abstract painting, but is not based on any photographs or other images. The source is internal.  The subject matter is energy, dimensions, multiple realities …