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Priam’s Birdwing Butterfly and Others Watercolor Painting
It is so difficult to identify butterflies when you only have a photograph to work with. It was easy for me to guess what they were if I photographed them in the wild. The ones you see in these two watercolor paintings were photographed in the Key West Butterfly preserve. They are not native to Florida, but the preserve provides them with all the flowers they need to live long and prosper. I originally started painting one type of butterfly at a time. In the second painting, I showed you two. These butterflies all live in the same butterfly preserve,...
Black Swallowtail Butterfly and Zebra Butterfly Watercolor Paintings
Today, I wanted to show you another set of watercolor paintings. These two butterflies I painted regularly frequent my garden. A few, I only see them close to sunset. The Swallowtail butterfly I photographed it close to sunset. She was standing still while resting on top of the ferns. The butterflies like to hang out in the ferns often. They are a good place for the butterflies to chill out. The Zebra Butterflies are the most common butterflies in my garden. I will now focus on the watercolor paintings themselves. I have been going through a watercolor phase. It is...
Spring Butterflies and a Blue Jay
Today, we spent the time working in the garden a bit. I only went indoors just now because of the dizziness. It is like super-hot in South Florida. It is enough to melt one’s brains. Anyhow, I saw this butterfly on my new sunflower and so I took a photo. Sunflowers are just precious. I have a couple of new saplings sprouting here, and there. Soon, I might have new tomato plants. When a tomato gets ruined by the birds the hawks missed, I usually just cut it on half and burry it in the dirt. Give it enough time,...
Butterfly Book
This is a photo I took a couple of months ago. I was just wandering a bit through Key West. They had a lot of random junk for sale. This is one of them. It looked real pretty around the edges. I have always wanted to have a silly art store with all nice things of my own choosing. I mainly have a preference for knickknacks. I tend to use a lot of archaic words. My main issue is that the words tend to get terrible modern meanings. One of my favorite word now sucks. I just hate modern day...
The Butterflies in My Garden
These are two photos I took of the butterflies in my garden. The first three were standing still a lot, so it was easy. The orange one I had to follow till it eventually settled down. These butterflies are the regular residents in my house. The trees that normally produce their nectar are not looking too sharp. There has not been a lot of rain during the winter. To remedy this, I have gotten into the habit of watering the plants every day. I water them a little and often. I do not repeat the exercise when the rains come....