This post is for the Nature Notes meme hosted by Rambling Woods every Tuesday. I start this post with a picture that I drew. It's not a nice picture as I am very novice in painting but which I love to do. This painting is done in acrylic.
So many things are happening in garden right now, so many flowers are blooming or are on the way to blooming that I am at a loss of photographing them, taking down notes or taking care of them. More information about them will be coming slowly later on, especially as I prepare to write the summer season celebration meme for Donna of Gardens Eye View. So, I am cheating today by posting a painting. All my painting involves nature -- animals, forest, flower, sea-beach, mountains, meadows, etc. Oil and acrylic are my favorite medium. Do you like painting?
Cicadas are here in many parts of NJ (coming out of the soil after 17 years) though they are not here in our town. I went to a town about 20 minutes drive from here, closer to the NYC. The sound of the cicada was deafening; one has to experience it as words can't describe it; it is enough to say that the sound can make anyone stop in their path, stand still and get mesmerized by the sound. Here are the cuties on my hand and what happens to them when they die.
So many things are happening in garden right now, so many flowers are blooming or are on the way to blooming that I am at a loss of photographing them, taking down notes or taking care of them. More information about them will be coming slowly later on, especially as I prepare to write the summer season celebration meme for Donna of Gardens Eye View. So, I am cheating today by posting a painting. All my painting involves nature -- animals, forest, flower, sea-beach, mountains, meadows, etc. Oil and acrylic are my favorite medium. Do you like painting?
Cicadas are here in many parts of NJ (coming out of the soil after 17 years) though they are not here in our town. I went to a town about 20 minutes drive from here, closer to the NYC. The sound of the cicada was deafening; one has to experience it as words can't describe it; it is enough to say that the sound can make anyone stop in their path, stand still and get mesmerized by the sound. Here are the cuties on my hand and what happens to them when they die.
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Great photos. The cicadas are so cool!
ReplyDeleteHey that's a good painting! You have so many different talents. I am amazed by your many interests also. You have a great day!
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ReplyDeleteYour painting looks wonderful! Our nightly noise this week is a massive plague of frogs. They are everywhere! The little guy even caught a tiny one still with it's tail.
ReplyDeleteThose pictures are totally cute. The bug picture is downright iconic, and the painting is worthy of O'Keefe.
ReplyDeleteI think the painting is very good. Don't be too self-critical.
ReplyDeleteI really like the painting and I love that you added it to Nature Notes along with highlighting the cicadas so people can see they don't bite... Keep painting..I love that you are reaching out and trying new things and sharing them...Michelle from Nature Notes..
ReplyDeleteIt's a great painting KL, I used to paint in acrylic, it used to be one of my fave painting mediums. cicada's are noisy things.
ReplyDeleteThat is a beautiful painting... give me a thousand years, and I don't think I can even come close...
ReplyDeleteYour painting is lovely. I hope to take a few lessons and play some more...I enjoy experimenting with art...trying to find my medium...we haven't seen any cicadas yet...still too cool here. Looking forward to your post!
ReplyDeleteI can barely draw a stick person so congrats on your wonderful painting! We have a bunch of cicadas here, too. The last photo shows the exoskeleton they lose when they molt after emerging from the ground. The birds here have been feasting on them. :o)
ReplyDeleteGreat shots of these little guys!! Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.
ReplyDeleteThat's a fab painting! I have that ay, it's hard to imagine the same hand that created that delicate picture is the same one holding a cicada. I'm not squeamish, but I haven't tried that, yet. We have them here in Texas, of course, but we haven't experienced their sound here as we did in New Jersey. I remember that when we lived there, sometimes it seemed that the trees might lift off!
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