Green Watercolor Foliage On Black Pins and Buttons

green tropical leaves on a black background.

Chicago Skyline composed of a montage of landmark buildings with Caption of City and State name. Green Watercolor effect on Black background.

Beautiful watercolor of green bamboos, one bamboo surrounding the other. In feng shui and Chinese tradition, it is used as a symbol of good luck. Ideal for home decor with relaxing illustration.

Palm leaves foliage, botanical illustration. Yellow-black-green marble hand-painted abstract watercolor. Design for fabric, textiles, wallpaper, baby room, packaging, paper.. Minim pattern, graphic brochure.

The Viceroy butterfly is an interesting creature, mimicking the coloration of the Monarch butterfly almost perfectly as a protection against predators, primarily birds. As children, my brother and I were fascinated with butterflies, moths, and other insects and had many reference books about them. One Field Guide to Butterflies (if I remember the title correctly) was a well-loved, well-thumbed paperback handbook about North American butterflies. The page about the Viceroy stated that Viceroys took on the coloration of Monarchs because Monarchs are bitter and the birds avoid them; Viceroys apparently taste good to birds, so they evolved a coloration that protects them. I found this photo on a reference photo site called pmp-art.com. T...

Elegant, delicate small garden flowers hand painting black design, featuring a collection of white roses, red daisies and yellow flowers with various green leaf shapes greenery hand painting, on a solid black color background. A special unique botanical nature floral artwork great for a spring botanic nature look decor.

This special unique floral botanical nature design is great for a stunning spring, vintage look decor. Featuring a collection of delicate, elegant garden blush pink flowers and green leaf shapes greenery hand painting, on a solid black background.

Monarchs are among my favorite butterflies - my brother and I collected butterflies and moths as kids, and my amazing Mom would mount them for us. We would find Monarch larvae and gather milkweed blossoms and leaves and watch them make their beautiful chrysalises and morph into these brilliant orange beings. I also was privileged twice in my life to see a major Monarch migration - tens of thousands of them descended on a wooded path near my home when I was about 10 years old - it was a stunning experience! I wanted to paint a Monarch and had no good reference photos of my own, so I found a reference photo on Paint My Photo - pmp-art.com, by Bonnie Sitter. You can see her photo at https://pmp-art.com/bonnie-sitter/gallery/30150/monarc...

Elderberry Blossom in Ink/Gouache Resist and Watercolor, by Conni Schaftenaar This is a painting I had started a couple of years ago and never finished until last week. It is done with painting layers of white gouache where you want to protect areas of paper - you can do single layers where you want some shadowing, and multiple layers where you want to protect white or almost white areas. You then coat the whole paper with black India ink and let it dry. After the ink is dried, you wash off the gouache and are left with a black and white image of whatever you set out to paint. You can leave it at that, or you can then use watercolor or other liquid media to add color. In this one, I used watercolor and I used a Micron pen to p...

Gouache sketch of a tree seen from our caravan in Malpas, England

Beautiful Summer Foliage

Fall lettering in a pile of soft watercolor Autumn leaves. Watercolored digitally.