Earlier this spring, I bought this mix for a flower garden.....so much variety!
Sure enough, I have flowers which I have never had before, though not as many as in the photo on the package.
My favorite was ready for a close up....
I don't even know what this is! But love the red and pink! I see a tiny grasshopper or leaf hopper is playing there, .....but I am thinking of doing a painting of this blossom and featuring a honey bee....now endangered.
Today, I painted milkweed and Monarch butterflies. The more milkweed we plant, the better it is for the Monarchs!
By reading Barbara Kingsolver's novel "Flight Behavior", I learned a lot about the orange Monarch.
They were called "King Billies" by early North American settlers, because of their orange color, they were reminders of the English king, William of Orange. The monarch of Britain, hence "Monarch" butterflies!
So today, I worked on a canvas with my brushes, palette knife and acrylic paints....
Almost finished...(above)....
Ta-da!
It was really fun, I painted or finished some others too!
You can see that I LOVE chairs! There may be more chair paintings ahead too!
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Now a quiet evening (Inspite of neighborhood fireworks!) of quilting on this flag quilt......Happy Fourth of July to all!
