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These three paintings are inspired by the painted lady butterfly.  I have entitled them temporarily (left to right): After Thistles, Fluttering Cosmopolitan, and Cynthesis.  These titles have their roots in scientific classification, common association, and/or metaphors.  Ideas and intellectual direction for the entire butterfly series are still taking shape.

What do you think? Please offer me feedback and take a look at the first three paintings in this series.  At present their potential titles are Flight of the Painted Lady, Vanessa Made Up, and Seeing Past by Present.

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!

Oil painting with animation showing motion over time.

oil painting with animation of the wings

watercolor where you can see through the top layer of time/ The view of the present is obscured by the views of the past