by KLR | Feb 23, 2010 | Botanical Art, My Travels, Works on Vellum
Gotcha! Can you find the real beans?!! I just had to take a photo of the art with some real beans on it! As I was designing the remaining groups to paint, I kept surprising myself with how the real beans seemed to look like the painted beans. Without...
by KLR | Feb 22, 2010 | My Travels
Olive leaves, olive leaves and more olive leaves. This painting is really taking me back. It’s hard to forget the effect of hundreds of olive trees. The wind catches the delicate silver leaves and the air seems to be magically shimmering with...
by KLR | Feb 11, 2010 | My Travels
From a botanical standpoint, Tuscany in September was all about olives, lemons and grapes. They were everywhere! They were the subject of the three main location study/drawings that I did while in Italy last September. Now I am supposed to have a painting done...
by KLR | Feb 8, 2010 | My Travels
Work continues; here is where I’m at with the Shell Bean painting, and here is where it will stay for a week or so. I found out that I need to have an Italy painting done by the end of February for advertising and marketing purposes. I...
by KLR | Jan 23, 2010 | My Travels
A botanical artist colleague just emailed me about any scans I might have of my nature journals. I was recently interviewed by Joyce Westner for a column in the ASBA (American Society of Botanical Artists) newsletter. My colleague read in the interview that I teach...
by KLR | Jan 21, 2010 | Bird Art, My Travels
Here are the current works-in-progress for the week. I started this owl painting, in watercolor on calfskin vellum, last year (or was it 2 yrs ago?!) and I have been trying to finish it. Now there is a DEADLINE… those dreaded deadlines. I must have it finished...
