I'm not teaching classes this month. I had a long list of things I wanted to get done during my "break," but what has happened is that I have been spending a lot of time making art! I have a backlog of botanical artwork that needs to be finished, and I am getting things done for our next Great Plains GNSI show at Lauritzen Gardens next year. While things are not going as I had planned, I am really pleased with how things are working out. I'm also coming to the conclusion that I just want to maintain this blog as my social media outreach at the moment.
I am working on several acrylic paintings for our show of plants and pollinators. After lots of drawing and colored pencil work, I am enjoying using thicker paints and brushes again. This morning, I finished a painting of a flower fly, and started work on a monarch caterpillar (I love those)!
And I've continued working on a horticultural history project for the Sarpy County Museum. This has been a fascinating research project, and I hope to share more about it at a later date.
Here is a photo of the flower fly painting before I finished it- the wings on the fly and the disk flowers are unfinished. At this point, it is about halfway done. When I first get the thought that I am almost finished, I know that it really means I have reached the halfway point, and it was definitely true for this one.
unfinished Flower Fly, © Camille Werther 2019 |