Skipper moth, Common checkered skipper, California hairstreak butterfly, Cabbage white; Zinnias, Lavendar
Watercolor, colored pencil and graphite
The pollinators are right, I have been walking past these intense colors for too long. My brightest colored pencils and watercolors were required and still fell short, and I admit to burnishing to achieve color saturation. I sketched a view of the Hairstreak from below (below) with its amazing “false head” (that’s a real term! a special form of crypsis in which part of an organism mimics another part) which might trick predators, and make us smile in the meantime…
-KA
A footnote:
my fresco painting “Small Moon” is featured in Saatchi’s online gallery
(or see it here in an earlier post: Waning moon
……… I renamed it Small Moon because a much larger one followed)