Rachel Steely : Indianapolis Artist : Art Class Instructor for Painting, Photography » Painted Lady Butterfly http://www.rachelsteely.com The goals of this blog and portfolio are to network and share ideas concerning my art. I plan to present what I am reading and thinking into the void of the Internet and hope a response will resound out. Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:00:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Trio of Painted Lady Butterflies http://www.rachelsteely.com/blog/trio-of-painted-lady-butterflies/ http://www.rachelsteely.com/blog/trio-of-painted-lady-butterflies/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:00:38 +0000 Rachel http://www.rachelsteely.com/?p=369 butterfly-tryptic1

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.

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Oil painting with animation showing motion over time.

Oil painting with animation showing motion over time.

oil painting with animation of the wings

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

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

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