• 07Nov

  Painting Butterflies

  Butterfly Paintings & Sketches, Inspiration, Research Study, & Field Trips, Nature Paintings & Sketches, Paintings, Paintings in Little - Small Miniature Paintings

  

  I just started a miniature painting of a mourning cloak butterfly, nymphalis antiopa, last night. I have had an interest in painting a variety of butterfly pieces for quite a while. I believe I made some similar comments on the website a number of years ago. Many ideas and very little time. :/

  I’ve had so many wonderful opportunities to study so many different species of butterflies, both exotic species and native North American butterflies, but just haven’t gotten around to painting one of them yet. Sometimes I stew over ideas for paintings for a long while before they materialize.

  The idea for this painting originated from coming across one of these butterflies sunning itself on some gravel on a path I was walking on. I had never seen a living mourning cloak specimen before, though this part of Minnesota is in it’s habitat range, so it interested me quite a bit. After a period of about 15 minutes of sunbathing, it disappeared.

   

  Some of my visitors to the website and blog have expressed some interest in butterfly artwork. If anyone has any comments, suggestions, etc. — I would love to hear your thoughts on this. Please drop an email or leave a comment post in the blog.

   

  

  If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

  Posted by Rebecca @ 1:03 pm

  Tags: art, artist, artists, artwork, butterfly, miniature_painting, miniature_paintings, new_painting, Paintings, wildlife_art

6 Responses

• Gloria Says:
  November 20th, 2006 at 2:55 pm

  Hi Rebecca!

  I found your site through someone who was searching for Red Fox paintings - I looked up their results and found your site.

  I just wanted to say I think your work is absolutely beautiful. I also have a big “thing” for birds (live with parrots). I paint and photograph them.

  Just wanted to send a cheer and say GREAT WORK! I love it!

  Gloria

• Katie Says:
  October 25th, 2007 at 2:07 pm

  Hi there,

  Wow, how talented are you? I am very impressed. I just wanted to say go for the butterflies, i have been painting them as illustrations for field guides for a very short time and i am still learning. I love it though. Happy to share ideas with you.

  I also would like to know if you have any tips on capturing iridescence? I am trying to paint a very pale green/yellow shimery one at the moment and i am just not happy with the results. Advice would be great.

  Keep up the good work.

  Katie

• Jan Says:
  January 30th, 2008 at 3:53 pm

  You are so talented. Beautiful work!

• Rebecca Says:
  February 7th, 2008 at 1:20 am

  Thanks so much, Gloria! I’m glad you found my blog. I have relatives that live with parrots, too.

  Katie, Thank you! Iridescence…. Well, when I paint it I always pay close attention to the varied colors shimmering and try to paint them accurately. If you can find the butterfly paintings by Carl Brenders (one of my teachers), he has painted a number of them beautifully.

  Thanks so much, Jan!

  Best,

  Rebecca

• Emz Says:
  March 21st, 2008 at 12:56 pm

  hi bec,
  ur art is amazing, and i have been looking @ all ur art and i want to be just like u.
  your my idol
  your the one who will keep me drawig and painting thanx
  emz
  xxx
  oh and how the hell do u do it lol

• rebeccalatham Says:
  April 3rd, 2008 at 7:50 pm

  That’s so nice of you, Emz. …I’m really happy that you find my work inspiring.

  Best,

  Rebecca

Leave a Comment