A butterfly for James! This is my submission for James' Windows to the Words' art blog's May theme. For me, these tiny insects can be more tough to paint than a human face ! What you see is my second attempt...threw the first one away:DWatercolor on postcard
So tender.. yet blatantly vibrant!
ReplyDeleteThis is really 'cool'..
ReplyDeleteA butterfly is a good challenge as you have to almost exactly reproduce the mirror image of what you have already painted on one wing. :)
I have to agree, Arti. These are way harder than they look! You did this beautifully though; it is such a lovely butterfly!
ReplyDeleteHey Arti, lovely !the texture of the wings look so soft.. Coincidentally I tried the same one yesterday and promptly threw it in to the bin..quite hard to create one at least for me :-)
ReplyDeleteJust beautiful, Arti. Do you use watercolor pencils to get that look? I've tried them and they are neat to work with.
ReplyDeleteWow, that's so beautiful Arti! I love it, and I think little complicated subjects are trickier than a face too :)
ReplyDeleteHello! The colors of this butterfly are so vivid and beatiful... I really like your works! I like the painted poppies too. Greetings from Italy! Giada
ReplyDeleteYou've done a nice job, Arti. You captured the iridescence of the butterfly's wings.
ReplyDeleteVery nice! Our art club is going to have a "butterfly" show first week in June in conjunction with a butterfly exhibit going on at the local flower conservatory. My attempts will not be this good, tho!
ReplyDeleteVery beautiful. It looks like a lot of work though to get it right. the blues work well against the oranges.
ReplyDeleteThanks Prabal,Sherry and Roopika..it was a tough one, but I enjoyed 'taming' it!:)
ReplyDeleteHi Padmaja, I would wait to see your butterfly!
ReplyDeleteCarol, I have used only my brush here.I do use watercolor pencils, but only for providing texture/ add some hard lines if needed!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Crystal. Michelle and Prabha.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to my blog, Giada, I hope you like visiting here:)
Thanks Tony, thanks Deb.It looks like a season of butterflies...and DEb, please don't say that-- I know you are much , much better than me:)
ReplyDeleteI laughed when you said that this is the second version, no shame in that, sometimes its my 34th version...this turned out well!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful butterfly. Congrats!
ReplyDeletehi arti!
ReplyDeletei dont remember if i left a comment b4 on ur blog but yes i do follow ur blog! u do some really nice work here! keep up the good work!
regards,
Veda
Thank you very much, Ron:)
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Albert and Veda.
You took a great challenge to paint the butterfly and you got an splendid result.
ReplyDeleteOoh recognised James' butterfly straight away! What a wonderful painting Arti - they are jolly hard to do, aren't they!
ReplyDeleteArti, I don't know how the first looked...but this is marvelous!!! You did super...and thanks so much for participating.
ReplyDeleteThanks ,Liz..And I am glad you liked it, James.
ReplyDeleteFantastic work, Arti! We do not have here a so beautiful butterfly!! Ciao!
ReplyDeleteWonderful and very colourful !!!
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