#monarch butterfly
Monarch Butterfly
Photo: LDeans
naissance …… milkweed
Elizabeth Rickard
Trying to decide between violet and green…
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Heeeeyy some art
From top to bottom:
“A Good Evening” Bald Eagle, 6x8″ oil painting on panel
“Frosty Morning” Red-winged Blackbird, 5x7″ oil painting on panel
“Two Lights on a Dark Water” Tundra Swans, 5x7″ oil painting on panel
“Diagonally” Red-breasted Nuthatch, 5x7″ oil painting on panel
“Luminous Temple” Monarch Butterfly on native purple coneflower, 5x7″ oil painting on panel
Most of my art is for sale, with details on my website: featherdust.com
I’m much more active on Twitter these days, if you still want to see my paint smears: https://twitter.com/Nambroth
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Newly emergent monarch, drying its wings.
Monarchs have a growing parasite problem, and it’s not from natural causes
“I’m winding down now, and I know this is a lot to take in. Here is a quick summary:
- Monarchs have a growing disease problem. This disease is wiping out tens of millions of migrating monarchs, leading to smaller than normal winter colonies.
- We know this increase is not being driven by any natural environmental factor, which argues the cause is anthropogenic.
- The timing of the increase coincides with the rise in collective efforts to save the monarchs in the last 15-20 years, including mass-rearing of monarchs and planting of tropical milkweed.”
TL;DR : We need to stop raising raising monarchs in captivity and releasing them.
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(OC) Etherelle © me
I need to make more original art often, fairy characters are one of my obsessions.
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the holding of fragile things in strong hands
[ID: a badger illustrated against blue milkweed and green bramble. it holds a chrysalis - to its left a caterpillar climbs one of the brambles, to its right is a newly emerged butterfly, and above it is an adult monarch butterfly, wings spread out. The placement of the butterflies follows a life cycle surrounding the badger. End.]
“Monarch” and “Damsel,” oil on cradled wood diptych, 10″x10″ each
Commissioned works, a reinterpretation of an uncompleted diptych.
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I’ll be slowly adding some of my old art to this blog, to fill it out and put down some of my thought processes on these.
This one was done almost exactly a year ago (oct 2019), and was mostly a study on the coloring of salmon. Not much to say on it, really! I’m still quite happy with how it turned out, the overall color balance of the piece, and the patterning methods that I used. It’s an interesting concept, and I feel like the wings and gradients lend a strange, clean aura to the drawing.
There are SIX monarch caterpillars in this picture
