Crisp Royale was temporarily installed last fall in a Kitchen.
Crisp Royale was temporarily installed last fall in a Kitchen.
Last Summer, Brazen Bleu was temporarily installed in this living room.
Last summer this butterfly took temporary residence in this dining room.
Here is another close up, crop, of the in progress blue morpho.
Come see the recent painting below in my studio (Studio B350) on April 25th and April 26th 2014 at the Stutz Open House.
This painting, finished about two weeks ago, and is about 4.5 feet high and about 3.5 feet wide.  It was inspired by the White Peacock butterfly.
“The wings are so present that I feel like I should use my hand to shield my eyes from the wind caused by the wings flapping.” Â Stephen James upon viewing the above painting.
Azure Joy is the first of at least three larger Butterfly abstract paintings that I am working on. Â The large size of the painting impacts the viewer and surrounds the viewer with color. Â This paintings seems calming.
I have been working on a number of paintings simultaneously lately. Â Here is a blue butterfly painting where I was particularly interested in the play of light through one wing and on another.
Have you ever walked outside in the fall and looked up at golden leaves that glowed as the sun shone through them?  Has the similarity of these natural foliage and stained glass ever struck you?  Butterflies wings can have the same effect on light when the creatures fly in-between you and the light source.  These natural sources, leaves and wings, do not color the light and create a pattern on the floor, but they do seem to glow, suspended in the sky.