Jupiter Painting Butterflies

Since I enjoy looking for paintings with butterflies, I found this one by Italian painter Dosso Dossi titled Jupiter Painting Butterflies, Mercury and Virtue, circa 1522-24. It certainly is a funny view of the supreme deity of the ancient Romans. Painting butterflies promotes relaxation! Apparently, since he is god, just painting the butterflies brings them to life.

Buckeyes

Thinking that I might find some interesting butterflies at our local botanical gardens before summer is over, I stopped by there one afternoon on the way home from the studio. I hadn't visited the gardens all summer and I was anxious to see what I would find! It was a real challenge to photograph anything that day as the butterflies were very active but I found these Buckeyes resting now and then. So I designed this painting from some of them with some flowers I saw. Plus I added a little of my imagination and voila!

I love color and nature certainly provides that!

Butterfly Boxes!

Somehow I got distracted and thought I should make something for the Christmas fundraiser at my art center.  So I painted these boxes last weekend with acrylic paint. They still need is a shiny coat and felt inside. (I made a funny error on one of them! Maybe you'll see what I did.)

Now back to printmaking!