Dreaming Big
We don't think of insects as having "personality". But this Red Admiral butterfly certainly did. It appeared in late afternoon every day for weeks, flitting around teasing the animals and then resting on the side of the house just before sunset, seeming to admire the size of its own luminous shadow.
Colored pencil and graphite on Stonehenge paper
2nd Place Drawing, Arts in Harmony 23rd Annual Internatonal Exhibition, Hopkins, MN, 2018
2nd Place Drawing, UArt Open, San Jose, CA, 2017
Exhibited in Salon at the Triton Statewide 2-D Competition, Santa Clara, CA, 2017
Published in Art Journey Animals from North Light Books, 2017
2nd Place AND Mayor's Choice Award, Silicon Valley Food & Art Show, 2016
3rd Place, Silicon Valley Fall Festival Art Show, 2016
Published in Strokes of Genius 7: Depth, Dimension and Space, 2014
Exhibited in Coastal Arts League Annual Juried Show, 2013
Colored pencil and graphite on Stonehenge paper
2nd Place Drawing, Arts in Harmony 23rd Annual Internatonal Exhibition, Hopkins, MN, 2018
2nd Place Drawing, UArt Open, San Jose, CA, 2017
Exhibited in Salon at the Triton Statewide 2-D Competition, Santa Clara, CA, 2017
Published in Art Journey Animals from North Light Books, 2017
2nd Place AND Mayor's Choice Award, Silicon Valley Food & Art Show, 2016
3rd Place, Silicon Valley Fall Festival Art Show, 2016
Published in Strokes of Genius 7: Depth, Dimension and Space, 2014
Exhibited in Coastal Arts League Annual Juried Show, 2013