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AuthorbyKLRMay 11, 20180

Designing Websites and Tulipmania

 

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Website, website, website – can you say website? I have been immersed in redesigning my website for the past month. I have even been waking up thinking about solutions to particular problems. Painting has been put aside for the time being as I felt like I wanted to muscle through to the end. I kept thinking that if I stopped to work on any paintings I wouldn’t want to come back to it. I am thinking that was a good decision as after all these years I do know myself well, but I have been itching to paint.

Last Sunday, I visited Wicked Tulip Flower Farm to pick tulips. I had bought the tickets this past February, this is a very timely event. You go when the tulips are blooming rain or shine. If you are a painter of any kind, the sight of all those tulips makes your heart beat faster. If you happen to be a botanical painter, it is pretty much sensory overload! Faced with a garden bucket full of tulips and a promise to myself not to paint until my website re-design was done, what’s a girl to do? Why, grab my camera and set up photo shoots while the conditions were perfect!

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I have spent the past week in flower photography heaven, alternating with tedious computer time but it has been a very productive week. My website re-design is finished (for the time being) and I have a file full of tulip reference photos. I even have a very exciting idea for a new series of paintings.

To visit my website go to www.kellyleahyradding.com. I would love to hear what you think about it. To see my new series you will have to be patient as the idea needs to sit on the back burner and simmer a bit. In the meantime I will be returning to my regularly-scheduled painting project!

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  • Happy little faces! I’m a little obsessed with pansies right now… @laing.rikkers #pansies #bookillustration #botanicalart #botanicalpainting #bookstagram #bookart #naturelovers #naturewriting #pandemicwriting #griefjourney #wearenature
    by kellyleahyradding 2 weeks ago
    Happy little faces! I’m a little obsessed with pansies right now…  @laing .rikkers  #pansies   #bookillustration   #botanicalart   #botanicalpainting   #bookstagram   #bookart   #naturelovers   #naturewriting   #pandemicwriting   #griefjourney   #wearenature 
  • July in the Rocky Mountains is definitely wildflower time and Grand Teton is no exception. I’ve been going to National Parks since I was a wee thing. Grand Teton - today’s National Park Week honoree- is a regular for me. That’s me in the Disneyland Tinkerbelle shirt with Mom & siblings- circa 1966 on a cross-country road trip. Flash forward to 2018 and there I am again- though not ‘wearing’ my Tinkerbelle. Up in the high damp meadows, the mountain bluebells were abundant amidst the lush array of colorful wildflowers. #mountainbluebells #mountainwildflowers #wildflowers #grandtetonnationalpark #grandtetons #ballpointpen #ballpointpenart #ilovemynationalparks #roadtripsarethebest #roadtrips
    by kellyleahyradding 1 month ago
    July in the Rocky Mountains is definitely wildflower time and Grand Teton is no exception. I’ve been going to National Parks since I was a wee thing. Grand Teton - today’s National Park Week honoree- is a regular for me. That’s me in the Disneyland Tinkerbelle shirt with Mom & siblings- circa 1966 on a cross-country road trip. Flash forward to 2018 and there I am again- though not ‘wearing’ my Tinkerbelle. Up in the high damp meadows, the mountain bluebells were abundant amidst the lush array of colorful wildflowers.  #mountainbluebells   #mountainwildflowers   #wildflowers   #grandtetonnationalpark   #grandtetons   #ballpointpen   #ballpointpenart   #ilovemynationalparks   #roadtripsarethebest   #roadtrips 
  • Happy World Bee Day! A UN-designated holiday. On this day Anton Janša, the pioneer of beekeeping, was born in 1734. The purpose of the international day is to acknowledge the role of bees and other pollinators for the ecosystem. We must all do what we can to support bees for all the life-giving work they do for us! From my 2021 daily series @postcards_to_nature. #worldbeeday #worldbeeday2022 #supportbees #lavender #postcardart #watercolor
    by kellyleahyradding 1 week ago
    Happy World Bee Day! A UN-designated holiday. On this day Anton Janša, the pioneer of beekeeping, was born in 1734. The purpose of the international day is to acknowledge the role of bees and other pollinators for the ecosystem. We must all do what we can to support bees for all the life-giving work they do for us! From my 2021 daily series  @postcards_to_nature .  #worldbeeday   #worldbeeday2022   #supportbees   #lavender   #postcardart   #watercolor 
  • It
    by kellyleahyradding 1 month ago
    It's National Park Week! So to celebrate I'm featuring recent drawings of wildflowers from my July 2018 cross-country trip by way of our National Parks and Monuments. The landscapes I traveled through were bursting with wildflowers from coast-to-coast. I think I found a new project... Here's a turks-cap lily from Lassen Volcanic National Park. What a cool park! On one side rocky, volcanic habitat, on the other, lush mountain scenery full of flowers. I've also included critters and scenes from the park, definitely in my top 10 so far!  #wildflowers   #wildflowerdrawing   #wildflowerodyssey   #ballpointpen   #ballpointpenart   #turkscaplily   #lassenvolcanicnationalpark   #naturedrawing 
  • On this Earth Day for my 7th National Park I’m celebrating during #nationalparkweek I’m visiting our easternmost park, Acadia NP. It’s also one of the first places in the US to see the sunrise (2nd photo on top of Cadillac Mt.) Fresh sea air, rocky coastlines, crashing waves, seabirds and one very cute young porcupine! Oh, and my drawing is of a Cardinal flower- a beautiful scarlet red lobelia that I can find on my own woods- usually in wetlands alongside streams. A magical park on a wooded island surrounded by water. #acadianationalpark #acadia #nationalparkweek #ballpointpen #ballpointpenart #wildflowers #wildflowersofamerica #earthday #ilovemynationalparks
    by kellyleahyradding 1 month ago
    On this Earth Day for my 7th National Park I’m celebrating during  #nationalparkweek  I’m visiting our easternmost park, Acadia NP. It’s also one of the first places in the US to see the sunrise (2nd photo on top of Cadillac Mt.) Fresh sea air, rocky coastlines, crashing waves, seabirds and one very cute young porcupine! Oh, and my drawing is of a Cardinal flower- a beautiful scarlet red lobelia that I can find on my own woods- usually in wetlands alongside streams. A magical park on a wooded island surrounded by water.  #acadianationalpark   #acadia   #nationalparkweek   #ballpointpen   #ballpointpenart   #wildflowers   #wildflowersofamerica   #earthday   #ilovemynationalparks 
  • There is a lot of thinking, researching, drawing, and color-study-creating behind the scenes of my paintings. I love every step of the journey, including these paintings for the book, You Me Qi and the Tree, by @laing.rikkers #ilovemywork #creativeprocess #lostinmyart #bookstagram #bookart #botanicalillustration #botanicalart #botanicalpainting #naturelovers #naturewriting #pandemicwriting #griefjourney #wearenature #botanicalartist #botanicalartist #contemporarynatureart
    by kellyleahyradding 4 months ago
    There is a lot of thinking, researching, drawing, and color-study-creating behind the scenes of my paintings. I love every step of the journey, including these paintings for the book, You Me Qi and the Tree, by  @laing .rikkers  #ilovemywork   #creativeprocess   #lostinmyart   #bookstagram   #bookart   #botanicalillustration   #botanicalart   #botanicalpainting   #naturelovers   #naturewriting   #pandemicwriting   #griefjourney   #wearenature   #botanicalartist   #botanicalartist   #contemporarynatureart 
  • Wrapping up my tribute to National Parks for #nationalparkweek are my @postcards_to_nature that I created last year during my year-long project. Looking through all my cards for todays post made me eager to start brainstorming my next step with 365 postcards to nature. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy my custom postcards to Nature and our National Parks. #nationalparkweek #nationalparkgeek #nationalpark #nationalparks
    by kellyleahyradding 1 month ago
    Wrapping up my tribute to National Parks for  #nationalparkweek  are my  @postcards_to_nature  that I created last year during my year-long project. Looking through all my cards for todays post made me eager to start brainstorming my next step with 365 postcards to nature. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy my custom postcards to Nature and our National Parks.  #nationalparkweek   #nationalparkgeek   #nationalpark   #nationalparks 
  • I have a million(!) stories I can tell about Yellowstone National Park -today’s National Park Week honoree. The first time I saw this flower - Lewis’ Monkeyflower (yes, named in honor of Merriwether Lewis, of Lewis & Clark fame, who documented it on their trek to the Pacific)- I almost got into a car accident. I was driving in our convertible and after leaving my husband Greg off at his fishing spot, was heading over to the Hayden Valley via Dunraven Pass. This was my first time in the park in July, we had always gone in September. The masses of wildflowers were making my head spin. On a hairpin turn against a steep bank, I saw this cluster of neon magenta flowers hanging on the edges of a mini waterfall- I hauled on the brakes and tried to pull off the road. Yes, there was an impatient driver behind
    by kellyleahyradding 1 month ago
    I have a million(!) stories I can tell about Yellowstone National Park -today’s National Park Week honoree. The first time I saw this flower - Lewis’ Monkeyflower (yes, named in honor of Merriwether Lewis, of Lewis & Clark fame, who documented it on their trek to the Pacific)- I almost got into a car accident. I was driving in our convertible and after leaving my husband Greg off at his fishing spot, was heading over to the Hayden Valley via Dunraven Pass. This was my first time in the park in July, we had always gone in September. The masses of wildflowers were making my head spin. On a hairpin turn against a steep bank, I saw this cluster of neon magenta flowers hanging on the edges of a mini waterfall- I hauled on the brakes and tried to pull off the road. Yes, there was an impatient driver behind
  • Continuing celebrating #nationalparkweek with a tour through Theodore Roosevelt National Park and a drawing of a prairie wildflower - the narrow-leaved purple coneflower. This horse-crazy girl was so thrilled to see the wild (feral) horses throughout the park, a gem of our park system and in my top five at the moment! I got to commune with a bun while watching a horse herd fade into the sunset. And I think that’s the youngest baby bison I’ve ever seen. Love, love, love this park! theodorerooseveltnationalpark #ilovemynationalparks #wildhorses #wildhorsesofinstagram #wildflowers #prairiewildflowers #ballpointpen #ballpointpenart #roadtrip #nationalparkroadtrip
    by kellyleahyradding 1 month ago
    Continuing celebrating  #nationalparkweek  with a tour through Theodore Roosevelt National Park and a drawing of a prairie wildflower - the narrow-leaved purple coneflower. This horse-crazy girl was so thrilled to see the wild (feral) horses throughout the park, a gem of our park system and in my top five at the moment! I got to commune with a bun while watching a horse herd fade into the sunset. And I think that’s the youngest baby bison I’ve ever seen. Love, love, love this park! theodorerooseveltnationalpark  #ilovemynationalparks   #wildhorses   #wildhorsesofinstagram   #wildflowers   #prairiewildflowers   #ballpointpen   #ballpointpenart   #roadtrip   #nationalparkroadtrip 
  • I
    by kellyleahyradding 1 month ago
    I'm so pleased to receive the news that my painting Shadow Shimmer has been juried into the 62nd Annual Exhibition of the Society of Animal Artists. The exhibition will be at the Turtle Bay Exploration Park in Redding, California from September 24, 2022 through January 1, 2023. I'm so looking forward to attending our opening weekend and seeing all of my SAA family IN PERSON!! This is a very cool bird, a type of silky-flycatcher called a phainopepla that I found perched in this Mojave yucca in Joshua Tree National Park.  #casein   #caseinpainting   #societyofanimalartists   #turtlebay   #birdart   #birdartist   #phainopepla   #joshuatreenationalpark 
  • . This is a painting for @laing.rikkers book to be published in May 2023. For breaking hearts everywhere.
    by kellyleahyradding 2 days ago
    . This is a painting for  @laing .rikkers book to be published in May 2023. For breaking hearts everywhere.
  • Today is World Water Day- as appointed by the United Nations. It focuses on freshwater and brings awareness to the millions living without access to safe water. Freshwater also sustains ecosystems an their wildlife. Here is a sampling of my @postcards_to_nature cards from last year featuring water and some of the wildlife that depend on it. #worldwaterday #freshwater #waterfall #ducks #swans #geese #turtle #gouache
    by kellyleahyradding 2 months ago
    Today is World Water Day- as appointed by the United Nations. It focuses on freshwater and brings awareness to the millions living without access to safe water. Freshwater also sustains ecosystems an their wildlife. Here is a sampling of my  @postcards_to_nature  cards from last year featuring water and some of the wildlife that depend on it.  #worldwaterday   #freshwater   #waterfall   #ducks   #swans   #geese   #turtle   #gouache 
  • Painting with a part of the color spectrum that warms up a winter day! ❄️ Work-in-progress for You Me Qi and the Tree by @laing.rikkers #gouache #gouachepainting #strathmoretonedgray #strathmore #strathmorepaper #bookstagram #bookart #botanicalillustration #botanicalart #botanicalpainting #naturelovers #naturewriting #pandemicwriting #griefjourney #wearenature #botanicalartist
    by kellyleahyradding 3 months ago
    Painting with a part of the color spectrum that warms up a winter day! ❄️ Work-in-progress for You Me Qi and the Tree by  @laing .rikkers  #gouache   #gouachepainting   #strathmoretonedgray   #strathmore   #strathmorepaper   #bookstagram   #bookart   #botanicalillustration   #botanicalart   #botanicalpainting   #naturelovers   #naturewriting   #pandemicwriting   #griefjourney   #wearenature   #botanicalartist 
  • Today is World Tree Day, the International Day of Forests as proclaimed by the United Nations. "It is a day of celebration declared to protect forests and wooded areas. The day also wants to be a reminder of the importance of trees for life, since they are a source of purification of the air and provide materials and fruits to humans." Trees, and in the bigger picture, forests, are my north star, without them I would be a shadow of myself. In honor of The Day of the Tree - a small offering of details of the tree paintings I
    by kellyleahyradding 2 months ago
    Today is World Tree Day, the International Day of Forests as proclaimed by the United Nations. "It is a day of celebration declared to protect forests and wooded areas. The day also wants to be a reminder of the importance of trees for life, since they are a source of purification of the air and provide materials and fruits to humans." Trees, and in the bigger picture, forests, are my north star, without them I would be a shadow of myself. In honor of The Day of the Tree - a small offering of details of the tree paintings I've been creating for the book You Me Qi and the Tree by  @laing .rikkers.  #dayofthetree   #worldtreeday   #worldforestday   #treepainting   #treepaintings   #bookstagram   #bookart   #botanicalillustration   #botanicalart   #botanicalpainting   #naturelovers   #naturewriting   #pandemicwriting   #griefjourney   #wearenature   #botanicalartist 
  • Cool color palette for this painting! I’m already having fun with an artichoke. Painting for the book You me Qi and the Tree by @laing.rikkers. #bookstagram #bookart #botanicalillustration #botanicalart #botanicalpainting #naturelovers #naturewriting #pandemicwriting #griefjourney #wearenature #botanicalartist #natureartist #natureart #watercolor #stonehengepaper
    by kellyleahyradding 3 months ago
    Cool color palette for this painting! I’m already having fun with an artichoke. Painting for the book You me Qi and the Tree by  @laing .rikkers.  #bookstagram   #bookart   #botanicalillustration   #botanicalart   #botanicalpainting   #naturelovers   #naturewriting   #pandemicwriting   #griefjourney   #wearenature   #botanicalartist   #natureartist   #natureart   #watercolor   #stonehengepaper 
  • I took the northern route eastward - crossing over the ‘Mighty Mississippi’ close to its headwaters in northern Minnesota- heading to Voyageurs National Park. The flora and fauna were becoming familiar! Isolated, quiet, all dark woods and blue water, fresh piney scent and oh so peaceful. I took the photo of the light-strewn forest path on my phone- one of my favorite photos of my road trip! I chose to draw a grass- Minnesota is the land of wild rice after all. This one is called woolgrass- I love this drawing and think I need to paint it. Now about that adorable little bear cub / full disclosure - he was at the nearby Vince Shute Bear Sanctuary- a bit controversial as they feed the bears, but they are wild bears, free to come and go, using the sanctuary as part of their foraging. Humans are up on a platform
    by kellyleahyradding 1 month ago
    I took the northern route eastward - crossing over the ‘Mighty Mississippi’ close to its headwaters in northern Minnesota- heading to Voyageurs National Park. The flora and fauna were becoming familiar! Isolated, quiet, all dark woods and blue water, fresh piney scent and oh so peaceful. I took the photo of the light-strewn forest path on my phone- one of my favorite photos of my road trip! I chose to draw a grass- Minnesota is the land of wild rice after all. This one is called woolgrass- I love this drawing and think I need to paint it. Now about that adorable little bear cub / full disclosure - he was at the nearby Vince Shute Bear Sanctuary- a bit controversial as they feed the bears, but they are wild bears, free to come and go, using the sanctuary as part of their foraging. Humans are up on a platform
  • Wishing you all a hippity hoppity Happy Easter! #bunny #bunnydrawinb #beatrixpotter #happyeaster
    by kellyleahyradding 1 month ago
    Wishing you all a hippity hoppity Happy Easter!  #bunny   #bunnydrawinb   #beatrixpotter   #happyeaster 
  • The Sunflower; a flower of hope, happiness and strength. And the National flower of Ukraine . We stand by you in strength, with hope for a bright future of self-determination. #ukraine #hope #sunflower #sunflowers
    by kellyleahyradding 3 months ago
    The Sunflower; a flower of hope, happiness and strength. And the National flower of Ukraine . We stand by you in strength, with hope for a bright future of self-determination.  #ukraine   #hope   #sunflower   #sunflowers 
  • Peaceful dark forest sheltering shimmering white birch trees. Work-in-progress for @laing.rikkers book You Me Qi and the Tree. #gouache #gouachepainting #legionpaper #legionpaperstonehenge #bookstagram #bookart #botanicalillustration #botanicalart #botanicalpainting #naturelovers #naturewriting #pandemicwriting #griefjourney #wearenature #botanicalartist #natureart #forestlandscape
    by kellyleahyradding 3 months ago
    Peaceful dark forest sheltering shimmering white birch trees. Work-in-progress for  @laing .rikkers book You Me Qi and the Tree.  #gouache   #gouachepainting   #legionpaper   #legionpaperstonehenge   #bookstagram   #bookart   #botanicalillustration   #botanicalart   #botanicalpainting   #naturelovers   #naturewriting   #pandemicwriting   #griefjourney   #wearenature   #botanicalartist   #natureart   #forestlandscape 
  • Today’s National Park visit is to @cratersofthemoon_nps. Such a cool moon landscape. On our 2018 trip we got there at end of day so that we could attend a star party ⭐️ . The clouds rolled in just as we were lining up to look at Saturn’s ring - I got a glimpse before it was obscured. But I did get to see this lovely blazingstar glowing against the lava rock at dusk. I visited again in 2019 after teaching a workshop in Ketchum and got to see a whole other side of the park. And lots of cool wildflowers! #ballpointpen #ballpointpenart #nationalparkweek #cratersofthemoon #wildflowers #iloveournationalparks
    by kellyleahyradding 1 month ago
    Today’s National Park visit is to  @cratersofthemoon_nps . Such a cool moon landscape. On our 2018 trip we got there at end of day so that we could attend a star party ⭐️ . The clouds rolled in just as we were lining up to look at Saturn’s ring - I got a glimpse before it was obscured. But I did get to see this lovely blazingstar glowing against the lava rock at dusk. I visited again in 2019 after teaching a workshop in Ketchum and got to see a whole other side of the park. And lots of cool wildflowers!  #ballpointpen   #ballpointpenart   #nationalparkweek   #cratersofthemoon   #wildflowers   #iloveournationalparks 

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