Cattail Pins and Buttons

From this summer's outing at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Washington, DC -- a break from the cold outside. Cattails are used for decorative purposes, in floral arrangements and baskets -- they are rampant at Kenilworth.

Game

A simplified indigenous Cattail (Apuk'we) designs, some designs accompanied by Ojibwe words for said plant.

A cattail all alone on the side of the road.

Sumi-e digital illustration.

That favorite snack from the Cheshire Cafe explodes on the scene in comic book style!

Cattaqil, from My little Pony: Friendship is Magic, imagined as a mare.

Cattail Scruff. Photograph

A Yellow-headed Blackbird launches itself from the tops of the cattails out at the Summer Lake Wildlife Refuge in southern Oregon.

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An inland bay off Lake Ontario (one of the Great Lakes) provided the marshy setting for this evocative image of bulrushes & lily pads... Application of a digital filter has produced a rich, almost jewel-like bronze glow to the image.

An inland bay off Lake Ontario (one of the Great Lakes) provided the marshy setting for this evocative image of bulrushes & lily pads... Application of a digital filter has produced a rich, almost jewel-like glow to the image.

I like watching wildlife around ponds and lakes, so I painted this close-up of a dragonfly in the cattails. I used acrylics with a pearlescent paint for the shine on the dragonfly and the wings. I like how the wings turned out with being able to see through them to a certain extent and the shine/glare on wings in the light to make them look real.

Illustrated Heron doing what Herons do best.

Fig.16

Little froggie princess of the pond!

Deep Enough

When it's lake time, all the time!

Closeup of an American Coot in the cattails.

A watercolor sketch for you!

When it's lake time, all the time!

These summer cattails are so fun!

A bird in a bog.

A beautiful Goldfinch sitting atop a Bulrush.

How I love seeing the Red Winged Blackbirds at ponds and lakes, so I painted this blackbird among the cattails.

How I love seeing the Red Winged Blackbirds at ponds and lakes, so I painted this blackbird among the cattails.