There is something beautiful about the process of forming of ideas, thoughts, and art. At a gallery or museum one can sometimes see the development of a series by viewing its parts, but this process is still fairly opaque with only a showing of the final work. Thankfully artist blogs are full of studies showing their process. Below I have a series of images showing a glimpse of my process as I created three of my recent butterfly paintings.
Inspiration in Munich
My three latest butterfly works, After Thistles, Fluttering Cosmopolitan, and Cynthesis will be on display this Saturday, October 19th from 8pm to 2am at Oranje, a contemporary art & music event. Wug Laku of Wug Laku’s Studio and Garage is representing my work at booth 17.
Recently, I finished the first three experimental paintings of Butterflies. Last autumn, I raised 12 Painted Lady Butterflies. I studied these beautiful little creatures as they developed from larvae, to caterpillars, to cocoons, to butterflies. Unfortunately I missed their emergence from their cocoons because they came out over a holiday weekend when I happened to be visiting relatives. Please look at the first three paintings and let me know which one(s) you like the best!