Great Black Digger Wasp: Transparent Watercolor and Time-lapse Video
Over the years I’ve learned that most wasps, bees and hornets are pretty tolerant of humans, and if you approach them carefully, they leave you alone.
Orchids and Stripes: A 70’s Throwback in Transparent Watercolor
Through the sieve of time, we tend to remember the real extremes. The horrific or the terrific.
Dimorphic Jumping Spider on Redbud Leaf Transparent Watercolor and Time-lapse Video
We’d usually start looking for the spiders after the towel fights got out of hand…
Orchids on Blue Transparent Watercolor and Time-lapse Video
I had so much fun with my last orchid painting that I thought it would be worth revisiting such a diverse and fascinating subject again. This one took a long time to design. I spent days monkeying around with all … Continued
Birds of the Everglades Transparent Watercolor and Time-lapse
There is no way around it: this painting took an incredibly LONG time! This 18×24-inch transparent watercolor features 25 birds found in Everglades National Park. I hatched the idea for this after our family trip to the Everglades last winter. As is typical … Continued
“The Coral Crew” Transparent Watercolor and Time-lapse Video
After a large, complicated, time-consuming botanical painting, I wanted something, small, fast and simple to work on. I sorted through a stack of doodles and composited a few into this coral reef scene. After the rigid realism of the last watercolor, it was … Continued
“Orchids” Transparent Watercolor and Time-lapse Video
I haven’t done a purely botanical painting in ages. I think the last one I did was of Fringed Polygala back in 1999! I’m always painting plants as backgrounds for insects and birds, so they aren’t foreign; they just haven’t been … Continued
Tan Jumping Spider
Tan Jumping Spider (Platycryptus undatus) I love these curious little jumping spiders! I’ve painted many different types in the past, but this is new to the collection. The Tan Jumper is one of the more common species found in Michigan. Globally … Continued
Great Blue Heron Mural
Now that is big! This mural was made from my watercolor painting Great Blue Heron Taking Flight. The original commissioned piece is 9 x 24 inches and was completed a few years ago. Lansing’s Art in the Wild recently had a call for entries for … Continued
Early Eastern (Rufous-sided) Towhee Transparent Watercolor and Time-lapse
This painting of an Eastern Towhee is a little unusual. Snow isn’t the first thing I normally associate with this species. For a number of years a male towhee would show up in our yard a few weeks before I’d see … Continued