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Written by Teresita Blanco (The Artsy Sister)
Tiger Longwing Butterfly, Siproeta stelenes and Others Watercolor Art
Today, I wanted to show you my latest watercolor butterfly paintings. I try to paint two of these watercolor paintings per week. It is a nice change of pace from my regular art projects. In the background, I am working on the latest Scary Cat Children’s Book and the Sacred Mask 5. Both take time to develop. For now, I am going to focus on my new watercolor paintings. All these butterflies can be seen in the Butterfly Preserve of Key West. I do not think they are native butterflies to Florida. I was only able to find the names...
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,...
Hollow Knight Van Eyck Arnolfini Portrait Fanart
Today, I made a new Hollow Knight fanart. After looking through a bunch of famous paintings, I decided to do a reference to a famous Van Eyck Painting called the Arnolfini Portrait or Wedding. This painting is famous because of all the small details in the portrait. The original shows a couple in their bedchamber. They are about to consummate their union. Both are barefooted as shown by the shoes scattered about the bedroom. The wife is in the process of raising her skirt, to show her willingness to reproduce with her husband. There is a mirror in the middle...
Movie Review: Splice, Hanna, Toy Story, The Rite, Dark Shadows
Splice 2010 Movie Review The moral of the movie is that all scientists are immoral. The maker of this movie went out of his way to stuff all the social taboos into one film. There is experimentation with a human fetus. There is abuse, mutilation and isolation of children. There are Machiavellian like punishments. Truly, this movie is the work of a sick individual. The plot is simple enough. A woman who has a family history of insanity goes too far with experimentation. She creates the mother load of chimeras. Dren the modern-day Frankenstein, is the gullible and adorable lil...
Art History: Henri Fuseli Romanticism Painter
Henry Fuseli is quite the interesting artist. He was active as an artist between 1750s and 1820s. His style is that of Romanticism. For those that do not know (or care) romanticism came about as a challenge to the Enlightenment. While the Enlighten noblemen where thinking that peace and prosperity laid inside the fumes of an industrial factory waste pipe the Romantics where thinking "yeah right". They hated how materialistic the world had become. Fuseli is of this lot. it is for this reason that his art is so fantastic, so bizarre. Like monsters out of a nightmare. His innovations...